Tag: Kurdistan

18 December 2019

Campaigners in Plymouth have written to a local company demanding that it: cease all trading with the Turkish military and ...

Turkish President Erdoğan is being hosted in the UK, meanwhile Turkish troops commit another massacre in northern Syria

4 December 2019

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was hosted at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday 3 December alongside other NATO leaders. He ...

Protests against fuel price hikes have broken out across Iran

Fuel price hikes lead to mass protests and state repression in Iran

18 November 2019

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Protests are ongoing across Iran against a recent hike in fuel prices. They began on 15 November, after the Iranian ...

Demonstration in Rojava in honour of Serxwebun Ali, who was killed by a Turkish armed vehicle during the Turkish-Russian patrol

An important call for women worldwide to rise up against the Turkish invasion of northeast Syria

18 November 2019

WARNING: this story contains content that some readers may find distressing. Women in northeast Syria are calling for feminists and ...

The jailing of a British man who fought Daesh shows that the PKK should be struck off the list of banned ‘terrorist’ groups

8 November 2019

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On 7 November, a man who risked his life to travel to fight Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) was imprisoned for "terrorism". His sentence ...

A mural commemorating Anna Campbell in Brighton

‘Anna we will fight on’. A personal account of resisting the DSEI arms fair.

1 October 2019

“Anna we will fight on” chants my friend as we row our boat towards the warships across the dock. “Jin, ...

The government just invested £100m in ‘killer robots’ carrying bombs used in Yemen

by Fréa Lockley

21 September 2019

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The second in a series of articles examining the latest government arms deals announcements. From 10-13 September, London’s ExCeL Centre hosted arms companies ...

People in Turkey are protesting against the removal of HDP mayors from office

New campaign website calls for a boycott of Turkey

27 August 2019

A new website is calling for a boycott of Turkey in solidarity with the Rojava revolution and the Kurdish Freedom ...

A NATO country just launched a coup against democratically elected mayors

by Emily Apple

20 August 2019

Turkey, a NATO member, has launched a coup against democratically elected Kurdish mayors in three areas. Mayors in Amed (Diyarbakir), ...

Riot police line the banks of the Tigris to prevent protest

Riot police try to stop protest against hundreds of historic villages being wiped off the map

17 July 2019

The construction of the Ilısu dam in southeastern Turkey threatens to displace 78,000 people and destroy one of the oldest ...

Activist gather at the MRGA gdathering in Val de Susa

Activists from across Europe gather in Italy to plan support for northern Syria’s ecological revolution

4 July 2019

Ecological activists from Switzerland, Italy, Britain and Germany gathered in the Italian Alps between 28 and 31 June in solidarity ...

Police accused of ‘disproportionate and aggressive response’ to protest at Turkish embassy in London

8 June 2019

This article was updated at 09:35 on 8 June to include a statement from the Metropolitan Police. Police reportedly threatened protesters ...

Turkey is about to wipe hundreds of historic Kurdish villages off the map

6 June 2019

The Turkish state has long been unrelenting in its plans to wipe out Kurdish culture. And in its latest move, ...

Leyla Güven declares the end of her hunger strike

After 200 days, Kurdish hunger strikes end in victory

28 May 2019

Thousands of Kurdish activists have finally ended their hunger strike. Politicians, political prisoners and activists around the world had been ...

London hunger striker tells The Canary “If we die, we’ll be dying with smiles on our faces”

23 May 2019

Right now, Kurdish people around the world are waiting in anticipation. They want news as to whether the Turkish state ...

London hunger striker tells The Canary why she’s prepared to die

20 May 2019