Participants in the 'Freedom March', a protest convoy demanding freedom for Abdullah Öcalan and calling for a democratic solution to the Kurdish question, have persisted despite arrests, police blockades and stormy weather, reaching Gemlik on Sunday. Participants in the ‘Freedom March’, a protest convoy attended by large numbers of people from several cities in Turkey, have persisted in their journey in spite [...]

Thirty years after the German government's ban on the PKK, the consequences for the Kurdish community are still in place. Critics say that the ban, initially framed as a security measure, has become a tool of repression that severely limits the political activities and rights of Kurds living in Germany. It’s been three decades since Germany’s then-Interior Minister, Manfred Kanther, imposed a [...]

Thousands of Kurds and allies from over 40 German cities gathered in Berlin to protest the three-decade-long PKK ban. The rally marked the culmination of a month-long series of actions challenging the prohibition. German police intervention resulted in clashes, with demonstrators attacked and multiple arrests made. Berlin saw a major protest against the three-decade ban on the activities of the Kurdistan Workers’ [...]

Connor Fetigen, member of the Cowley Collective and activist for the Autonomy and Resistance Organization (ARO), stated that Abdullah Öcalan, a representative of the socialist ideology, should be freed. Connor Fetigen, member of the Cowley Collective and activist for the Autonomy and Resistance Organization (ARO), was among the participants of the internationalist World Youth Conference held in Paris from 3 to [...]

The YJA Star and HPG guerrillas are continuing their resistance against the Turkish occupation forces in South Kurdistan without interruption. YJA Star (Free Women's Troops) and HPG (People's Defence Forces) continue the resistance against the invading Turkish forces in the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). According to the HPG Press Center statement on Thursday, Turkey continues to [...]