CHP chairman and presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu (center) with HDP co-chairs Pervin Buldan (left) and Mithat Sancar (right), March 20, 2023 (Photo: Official website of the Peoples’ Democratic Party) On March 22, 2023, following a meeting with CHP leader and joint opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu,
HAMRA, Beirut—Two parliamentarians representing the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey—Garo Paylan and Tulay Hatimogullari Oruc —met with a group of Lebanese, Kurdish, Palestinian and Armenian intellectuals, researchers and activists at the J Hotel in Beirut on Monday to discuss the political situation in
The desperate situation of Kurdish women in the Kurdish region of Turkey struck me first while shooting my documentary film in late 2019 in several cities in the region. I managed to observe the intense changes to the socio-cultural dynamics accompanying the
‘Every war is different. Every war is the same.’ – Anthony Swofford Since the beginning of the Olive Branch Operation in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region on January 20th, the Turkish army has launched massive air and ground force strikes on targets across the
The Afrin events are being used to assert the notion that without Russian military guarantees, and a Russian military base deployed in Armenia, Yerevan will be under a constant threat from a potential Turkish offensive, says Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed. Turkey’s military
An Interview with Palestinian political activist and young scholar Hadi Abdelhadi Alijla on Palestine and the region. -How do you evaluate the current rapprochement between Fateh and Hamas? Is it doomed to failure like the previous agreements or this time both sides have
Following WWI, a number of key Arab figures and tribesmen who had joined the Allied war effort took over the administration of former Ottoman territory in what is today’s Syria and Jordan. Led by recently coronated King Faisal of the Hashemites, they proclaimed
I first came to Kurdistan in late July of 2014. My first month was colored with constant conversations and anxiety surrounding ISIS and it’s seizure of Kurdish land. My television was fixed on news stations as my colleagues and I watched more and
It is not a mystery that all eyes are going to be turned on the residents of Kurdish-controlled areas in Northern Iraq as they are preparing to vote on 25 September in a referendum on their preference for the future of the Kurdistan Region of
The Lebanese branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party has organized a solidarity gathering in Martyr’s square for the “Independence referendum” that will be held in Kurdish controlled parts of Northern Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan) on the 25th of this September. (17/9/2017)