In a compelling speech at a Cologne press conference for the Freedom for Öcalan campaign, Dr Thoreau Redcrow, an American Global Conflict Analyst specialising in Kurdish Studies, highlighted the illegal isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and called for international solidarity and accountability from European institutions. 🗣︎ Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan – Mobilising global support. Dr Thoreau Redcrow speaks at a press [...]

After Turkey and its mercenary allies occupied Afrin in 2018, the region was transformed from a rich and prosperous area into a battlefield. Attacks on Afrin are carried out every day: in February there were more than 120. Seven people were killed. Until a few years ago, spacious meadows, fields and forests dominated the gentle landscape of Afrin - green [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has identified serious abuses and potential war crimes committed by both the Turkish Armed Forces and their proxies in Syria, warning that Turkish officials appear directly involved in apparent war crimes. Turkey is directly implicated in serious abuses and potential war crimes committed by both members of its own forces and its armed proxies in the [...]

Malin Anna Björk, an MEP from the Swedish Left Party and The Left, and Emmanuel Fernandes, a French politician representing La France Insoumise, have stressed the need for a political solution to the Kurdish question. 🗣︎ European politicians Emmanuel Fernandes (@EmmanFernandes) and Malin Anna Björk (@MalinBjork_EU) express grave concern over the conditions of detention of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan as [...]

Politicians reacting to the threat against the Bremen Kurdish Community Center asked for joint action against fascist and racist attacks. On 21 February, cartridges bearing a swastika were discovered in the letterbox of the Democratic Kurdish Community Center (DKTM) Brati in Bremen. The association's premises in Bremen's Neustadt district are under constant surveillance by the police. A press conference was [...]