Amed people pointed to Abdullah Öcalan as the interlocutor for a lasting peace and demanded the AKP-MHP government to take concrete steps. MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) Leader Devlet Bahçeli shook hands with the DEM Party group at the opening of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) on 1 October, followed by talks about a possible resolution process with the [...]

HPG reported that the guerrillas destroyed two excavators and damaged an armoured car during an action against a Turkish army construction crew in southern Kurdistan. One soldier was killed and five others wounded. The Press Centre of the People's Defence Forces (HPG) issued a statement providing information about the ongoing resistance of the guerrillas and the attacks by the Turkish [...]

As women’s organizations prepare for 25 November, Feride Eralp, a member of the December Feminist Collective, said that, as every year, they will be taking to the streets again. With the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women approaching on 25 November, women’s organizations are preparing events and actions at full gear. The focus of these activities is [...]

Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers submitted another application to the Turkish judiciary to visit their client in İmralı Island Prison. Since 2019, the Kurdish leader has been denied contact with his lawyers. Lawyers İbrahim Bilmez, Cengiz Yürekli, Suzan Akipa ve Emran Emekçi of the Istanbul-based Asrın Law Office, which represents Abdullah Öcalan and his fellow prisoners in İmralı Island Prison, have applied [...]

The Manbij Military Council Forces and the Jabhat al-Aqrad Forces announced that 7 Turkish soldiers were killed in retaliation for the attacks carried out by the Turkish state. The Manbij Military Council announced that they had carried out retaliation actions against the occupying Turkish army positioned in the regions it occupied in Syria in 2016, together with the Jabhat al-Aqrad [...]