Al-Monitor reports on women from Afrin, imprisoned by Turkish mercenaries, and who have witnessed torture, rape and harassment every day.
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The continuing crackdown on press freedom in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is threatening its democratic future.
IKHRW calls on the international community to break the silence, and report on violations of human rights and child recruitment…
Apparently, the sad story of Kurdish children in the Middle East is not over yet… Underdevelopment, Kolberi [cross-border smuggling], civil…
Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani likes to promise transparency. In a December 2019 speech marking his first hundred days…
Amberin Zaman Justice remains elusive for Metin Kilicaslan, a wedding singer from the mainly Kurdish province of Siirt in southeast…
BY KLAUS JURGENS What makes highly experienced politicians who travel and know the world think terrorists are freedom fighters? How come…
Over the past year, freedom of expression in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been increasingly curtailed, according to a…
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has abducted six civilians in the Qandil area of Kurdistan Region and now forces their…
By Burak Bekdil EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan needed a military success story, and the rescue of 13…









