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The call of Murad Karayilan and the girls’ response
Murad Karayilan, commander of the PKK’s armed wing and its affiliates, is seeking to make up for the loss of armed fighters following repeated PKK defeats in decades-old strategic locations in northern Iraq that killed many PKK members. Following the PKK’s call, its members tried hard and eventually abducted about a dozen underage girls, even […]
Explaining leftist politics: ANTIFA, Israeli settlers’ history and PKK connect through a shared ideology
By Hedwig Kuijpers Since the Kibbutz movement in the early 20th century, and Murray Bookchin’s writings and influence in leftist circles from the ’60s untill today, early Zionist anarcho-communism has become a heritage that inspired both the Antifa movement in the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in the Middle-East, and has united them in […]
Ocalan: No one should build their future plans over me
Abdullah Öcalan, who has been serving a life sentence in a prison on the İmralı Island since 1999, was allowed a phone call with a member of his family for the first time in 21 years on April 28. During the phone call, Öcalan focused on the Kurdish unity in the Middle East, as he […]
PYD and ENKS hold a rare meeting
Commander-in-Chief of the SDF, PYD’s military wing, Mezlum Ebdi stated in a news conference today that the stances of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Kurdish National Council in Syria (ENKS) and all other political parties are positive on the issue of Kurdish unity. Ebdi also called on all political parties to support the […]