Tag Archives: Weekly News Briefing

NEWS BRIEFING May 2019

16 May, 2019 By in Kurdish News Weekly Briefing, Uncategorized Tags:

WOMEN’S ALLIANCE

FOR KURDISTAN, IRAQ AND SYRIA

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  1. Kurdish women prepare to protect their gains in Syria
  2. Painting with honey, fruits and blood
  3. Today a NATO country sentenced this woman to nearly two years in jail for journalism
  4. Turkey: Riot police fire tear gas at banned women’s day rally
  5. Women in Berlin: Be the voice of hunger strikers’ mothers!
  6. Women wearing white head scarves rallied in Cologne
  7. Kurdish politicians urge protesters to spare own lives in Turkey
  8. Faster Aydın: Let’s spread the resistance everywhere!
  9. Investigation into Turkish MIT’s role in Paris killings – UPDATED
  10. After surviving ISIS and a civil war, these Syrian women built a female-only village
  11. Kurdish women scarred by state violence in Turkey’s southeast – report
    12. Kurdish women’s experience of state violence in Turkey
  12. Yazidi spiritual council would welcome children of ISIS rape victims, revokes earlier statement

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  13. Kurdish women prepare to protect their gains in Syria

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KURDISH NEWS BRIEFING, 11 APRIL 2019 – 7 MAY 2019

7 May, 2019 By in Kurdish News Weekly Briefing, Uncategorized Tags:

NEWS

  1. Lawyers for Abdullah Öcalan publicly read his letter, following their historic meeting with the Kurdish leader.
  2. Deir ez-Zor people protest Turkish attacks and wall construction
  3. Ocalan calls an end to hunger strikes and resumption of peace talks
  4. Abdullah Ocalan meets with lawyers for the first time since 2011
  5. Deir ez-Zor people protest Turkish attacks and wall construction
  6. Activists in twelve towns target TUI in campaign supporting kurdish hunger strike.
  7. Jailed journalists in Turkey begin hunger strike in protest over PKK leader’s isolation
  8. *BREAKING* Welsh Government Minister writes to Jeremy Hunt urging him to contact
  9. HDP writes letter to the international community on death fasts
  10. NAV-DEM: Support Kurdish and democratic candidates in Europe
  11. Lawyers: Prisoners’ demand should be accepted
  12. PFLP Secretary General visited MPs on hunger strike in Amed
  13. Turkey protests Kurdish language classes at Japanese University
  14. Turkish soldiers killed in clashes with Kurdish rebels
  15. Ken Loach backs 7000 Kurdish protesters on hunger strike
  16. Washington can help strike a deal between Turkey and Kurds in Syria – analysis
  17. Syria Kurds say deal made for 31,000 displaced Iraqis to go home

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KURDISH NEWS BRIEFING, 30 MARCH – 12 APRIL 2019

15 April, 2019 By in Uncategorized Tags:

NEWS

  1. Comrade of Bobby Sands: The silence is shameful
  2. Sinn Féin: Irish peace deal must be protected from Brexit crisis
  3. Day 113 of indefinite hunger strike in Strasbourg
  4. Leyla Guven: 152 days on hunger strike against isolation
  5. “Stand against the Turkish state invasion”
  6. Autonomous Administration proposes congress on ISIS prisoners
  7. Hundreds rallied in Wales in solidarity with hunger strikers
  8. Hunger strike resistance continues in many prisons and houses. Newly-elected Kurdish mayors in Turkey under investigation after celebrating victory

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NEWS BRIEFING March-April 2019

4 April, 2019 By in Uncategorized Tags:

WOMEN’S ALLIANCE FOR KURDISTAN, IRAQ AND SYRIA

https://peaceinkurdistancampaign.com/activities/womens-alliance-for-kurdistan-iraq-and-syria/

  1. Owen Joins Hunger Strike
  2. British Human Rights Lawyer Owen: Support the hunger strikers
  3. Kurdish hunger strikers saluted at 8 March rally in London
  4. Paris 8 March celebration commended Leyla Güven
  5. HPG-YJA Star guerrillas celebrate April 4
  6. Isis women must be repatriated and de-radicalised
  7. Women, children leaving IS stronghold overwhelm Syrian camp
    8. Six years of YPJ: growing and changing society – PART I
  8. Kurdish women prepare for a life after IS. VIDEO
  9. Pictures of the Day: 28 March 2019
  10. Syria: Women must play active role in shaping the country’s future | Amnesty International
  11. Elections, expense scandals and Women’s Day in Turkish headlines
  12. Erdogan slams women’s day rally over ‘rude’ behaviour
  13. HDP women win big in Turkey elections despite party setbacks

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KURDISH NEWS BRIEFING, 26 February – 29 March 2019

29 March, 2019 By in Kurdish News Weekly Briefing, Weekly Tags:

NEWS

  1. Demirtas calls on people to go to the polls to “teach a lesson”
  2. (VIDEO)In Memory of Those Fallen in the Fight Against ISIS. Sehid Namirin!
  3. SDF declares victory over ISIS, vows to continue their fight
  4. Gaza writer sent solidarity message to Leyla Güven
  5. French senator: Remove PKK from EU terrorist organizations list
  6. Turkey’s Kurds celebrate New Year, brace for election
  7. In pictures: Turkey’s Kurds celebrate Nowruz in Diyarbakir amid hunger strike 
  8. Rebel Kurdish leader’s treatment criticised by Welsh Assembly
  9. HDP MP Sarısaç: We are the defenders of this honourable cause
  10. (VIDEOS) Kurdish forces pound last remaining ISIS stronghold in Syria
  11. After defeating Islamic State, Syrian Kurds eye political battle
  12. Free Öcalan call: Freedom for Öcalan campaign ramps up as hunger strikers’ condition deteriorates
  13. Turkish Foreign Ministry summons Belgian ambassador
  14. European rights court orders Turkey to pay news publisher
  15. Kurdish women prepare for life after ISIS
  16. Delegation of Basque women visits Rojava

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KURDISH NEWS BRIEFING, 28 JANUARY – 26 FEBRUARY 2019

27 February, 2019 By in Kurdish News Weekly Briefing Tags:

 

NEWS

1. Hunger strikers in Strasbourg speak up – Deniz Sürgüt

2. Swiss Court: Fighting ISIS is honourable  

3. Kurdish parties signed alliance protocol for local elections

4. Hunger strike solidarity Platform formed in Europe

5. MSD Co-chair Ehmed speaks in the UK Parliament

6. Strasbourg hunger strikers’ call to European public opinion

7. Irish MEP visits Leyla Güven on day 104 of fast

8. Anderson meets Kurdish hunger striker Leyla Guven

9. Conference on Abdullah Öcalan in London

10. British trade unions and Peake wrote to Turkish government

11. Tens of thousands gather in Strasbourg to rally for Öcalan

12. Protest for Ocalan outside Turkish embassy in Bolivia

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WOMEN’S ALLIANCE FOR KURDISTAN, IRAQ AND SYRIA NEWS BRIEFING JANUARY 2019

29 January, 2019 By in Kurdish News Weekly Briefing, Kurdish Women, Uncategorized Tags: ,

WOMEN’S ALLIANCE

FOR KURDISTAN, IRAQ AND SYRIA

https://peaceinkurdistancampaign.com/activities/womens-alliance-for-kurdistan-iraq-and-syria

  1. Leyla Guven : Letter to President of the European Parliament
  2. Kurdish MP on hunger strike prepared to “protest to the death”
  3. Leyla Guven:MP on hunger strike for 77 days in Turkey.
  4. Jailed Kurdish politician on hunger strike: We are determined 
  5. Welsh Kurds Start Hunger Strike for Ocalan
  6. Co-mayor candidate and many other women detained in Sirnak
  7. Actions for Rojava across the United States
  8. Italian women in solidarity with Leyla Guven 
  9. Solidarity Party of Afghanistan supports Kurdish hunger strikers
  10. Demo against isolation in Paris 
  11. Hunger strike in Strasbourg on day 43
  12. A people’s leader cannot be in isolation, the resistance goes on! 

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KURDISH NEWS BRIEFING, 5 JANUARY – 20 JANUARY 2019

23 January, 2019 By in Culture, Kurdish News Weekly Briefing Tags:

NEWS

  1. Kurdish roadmap to Damascus proposes continued autonomy, SDF to become border guards
  2. Leyla Guven’s letter: Whatever the price may be, we will prevail!
  3. Thousands rallied in Amed: End isolation
  4. Muslim: We don’t accept a ‘safe zone’ that Turkey will be in
  5. Merkel government issues statement on Ocalan
  6. KCK’s Bayık warns against Turkey’s psychological war
  7. Reception for freedom for Ocalan in London City Hall
  8. Jailed Kurdish opposition leader remains defiant ahead of trial
  9. Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled writes in support of Kurdish hunger striker Leyla Guven
  10. Hunger strike in Wales reached day 30
  11. EXCLUSIVE: Unions and progressives refuse to be intimidated by Turkish state
  12. Conference at the European Parliament: Isolation must be lifted
  13. Vigil in Dublin for Leyla Güven
  14. MEPs and lawyers from Europe denied meeting with Leyla Güven
  15. HDP Honorary Chair Kürkçü Faces Up To 20 Years in Prison
  16. 7 Kurdish Parties Form Alliance for Local Elections
  17. Prison Sentence of Selahattin Demirtaş Taken to Constitutional Court

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**KURDISH NEWS ALERT** 3 JANUARY 2019

3 January, 2019 By in Kurdish News Weekly Briefing Tags:

US WITHDRAWAL AND ROJAVA

NEWS

  1. Trump: US will protect Kurds, no timetable for Syria withdrawal
  2. Damascus claims YPG fighters withdrawing from Manbij
  3. France’s Emmanuel Macron tells Vladimir Putin that Kurds should be protected
  4. Turkish jets bomb more villages in South Kurdistan
  5. Committee to unite Kurdish political parties formed in Rojava
  6. France will always remain dependable ally to Kurdistan: Consul General in Erbil
  7. Dutch government party wants to send soldiers to Syria to stop Turkish invasion
  8. Syrian Kurds call on Damascus to protect Manbij from Turkish invasion
  9. Retired US intelligence officer: Trump decision to leave Syria ‘a mistake’
  10. Google erases Kurdistan from maps in compliance with Turkish gov.
  11. Muslim: We didn’t call them, we’re not sending them away
  12. US withdrawal from Syria leaves Kurds backed into a corner

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KURDISH NEWS BRIEFING, 3 DECEMBER – 17 DECEMBER 2018

20 December, 2018 By in Weekly Tags:

NEWS

  1. Kurdish villagers are dying at the hands of a war the world has ignored for too long
  2. EU foreign policy chief urges Turkey to refrain from military operation in Syria
  3. Solidarity hunger strikes in Europe continue
  4. Indefinite hunger strike to be launched in Strasbourg
  5. Kurdish parties and organisations reject the US decision
  6. PKK and PAJK prisoners announced indefinite hunger strike
  7. “As Turkey’s local elections loom, reckless war-mongering begins”
  8. HDP’s Buldan: Millions demand freedom for Öcalan
  9. Anderson calls for release of Öcalan and all political prisoners
  10. US-Backed Kurdish Forces Seize ISIS Town in Eastern Syria
  11. US firmly warns Turkey against attack on Syrian Kurdistan
  12. Kurdish leader tells Turkish court he is a ‘political hostage’
  13. EU Commission: Demirtas case reflects rights violations
  14. Dozens Arrested in Raids on Kurdish Party Headquarters in Turkey
  15. Iranian Kurds bury actor, filmmaker brothers killed in arson car fire
  16. Kurdish community in Scotland being “terrorised” by police
  17. Kurds Rush Reinforcements Into East Syria as ISIS Reclaims Town
  18. Persecution of Kurds seeking sanctuary in Scotland must stop

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