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Al Monitor reveals crimes of Turkish mercenaries against the women of Afrin

Al-Monitor reports on women from Afrin, imprisoned by Turkish mercenaries, and who have witnessed torture, rape and harassment every day.

Iraq’s Kurdish region is not a model for free speech

The continuing crackdown on press freedom in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is threatening its democratic future.

KDPI militia admits violating Children’s Rights by flaunting its child soldiers publicly

IKHRW calls on the international community to break the silence, and report on violations of human rights and child recruitment…

Kurdish children continue to die in the fruitless war between the PKK and Turkey / This episode: Abdullah Ismaili

Apparently, the sad story of Kurdish children in the Middle East is not over yet… Underdevelopment, Kolberi [cross-border smuggling], civil…

If Iraqi Kurdistan leaders are serious about transparency, publish tax returns

Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani likes to promise transparency. In a December 2019 speech marking his first hundred days…

The Turkish justice system is overwhelmed with thousands in prison for such dubious crimes as texting about weddings.

Amberin Zaman Justice remains elusive for Metin Kilicaslan, a wedding singer from the mainly Kurdish province of Siirt in southeast…

Stockholm’s failure to recognize SDF links to YPG, PKK

BY KLAUS JURGENS What makes highly experienced politicians who travel and know the world think terrorists are freedom fighters? How come…

Iraq: New UN report shines light on ‘deeply worrying’ pattern of restrictions in Kurdistan

Over the past year, freedom of expression in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been increasingly curtailed, according to a…

PKK Abducts Six Civilians, Forces Families to Speak Against Their Children

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has abducted six civilians in the Qandil area of Kurdistan Region and now forces their…

The Gara Affair: How Not to Rescue Hostages

By Burak Bekdil EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan needed a military success story, and the rescue of 13…

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