Samuel Cogolati, Belgian deputy with the Ecolo-Groen group moved a question in the parliament, demanding explanation about the raids targeting Kurdish media. In the early hours of Tuesday 23 April, Belgian police raided the offices of Kurdish television stations, StêrkTV and Medya Haber (Medya News) in Denderleeuw (East Flanders). The police arrested the guard, broke down studio doors, confiscated computers [...]

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 [...]