Lawyer Rengin Ergül emphasised the need for public support alongside legal efforts to challenge isolation practices, highlighting the situation of Kurdistan Workers' Party leader Abdullah Öcalan and other political prisoners held under severe conditions for years without communication.   The treatment of prisoners at İmrali Prison, where Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan is held, has set a troubling [...]

Women living in Şehîd Rûstem Cûdî Refugee Camp in Maxmur underlined that, "No one can darken the sun of women" in a mass march on the occasion of March 8.   In Martyr Rûstem Cûdî Cudi Refugee Camp, the events organized by the Ishtar Assembly on the occasion of March 8, International Working Women's Day continue. Today, a march was [...]

The song "Jin, Jiyan, Azadî", composed by MKM artist Hediye Kalkan for 8 March, International Women's Day, has been released on digital platforms. Artist Hediye Kalkan, who works within the Mesopotamia Cultural Center (MKM), composed a Kurdish song called "Jin, Jiyan, Azadî" for 8 March, International Women's Day. The song, bearing the KOM Music label, has been released on all [...]

“Nations are at war. Territories are being occupied. Nature is being exploited. Women are being killed. In such a situation, we cannot celebrate 8 March as a festivity. We can only celebrate 8 March if we can meet as free people.”   YPJ (Women’s Defense Units) International released a statement on the occasion of March 8, International Women’s Day. Calling [...]

Defending the Rojava revolution on the front line as a leading force, YPJ is based on the liberal, grassroots democratic and anti-patriarchal paradigm of Abdullah Öcalan.   Following the uprising of the so-called Arab Spring, the people of Rojava (Western Kurdistan, Northern Syria) took over the administration from the hands of the Syrian Regime and established a confederal, democratic self-administration. [...]