Bruxelles Dévie denounced the police raids which targeted the Kurdish TV stations based in Denderleeuw on 23 April, saying they were one of the attempts to suffocate the Kurdish movement in Europe. The independent Belgian media Bruxelles Dévie issued a statement condemning the raidsm by Belgian police on the premises of the Kurdish media Stêrk TV and Medya Haber in [...]

On World Press Freedom Day, 26 organisations condemned Turkey's continued repression of Kurdish journalists, as the country's press freedom ranking plummets.   On 3 May, marking World Press Freedom Day, OBC Transeuropa along with 26 other international media freedom and human rights organisations, condemned the recent arrests of Kurdish journalists in Turkey. RSF expressed concerns regarding Turkey’s press freedom following the [...]

In a parliamentary question to be answered by the Ministry of Interior, French MP Jean-Paul Lecoq brought the increasing pressure on Kurds in France to the agenda. Jean-Paul Lecoq, MP for the Democratic and Republican Left, submitted a parliamentary question drawing the attention of the French Minister of the Interior and Overseas Countries to the situation of Kurds in France. "There [...]

Thousands of workers are demonstrating for May Day in Kurdish-majority cities of southeast Turkey, with large rallies in Van, Batman, and Izmir. Meanwhile, in Kurdish-led North and East Syria, the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) has called for May Day street protesters to demand an end to the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan. Large May Day rallies are taking place [...]