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The democratic society as the path to peacefully solving the “Gordian knot”
Devriş Çimen, Kurdish journalist and politician | An analysis of Abdullah Öcalan's call for peace and a democratic society as well as the ongoing process since then. [...]
Twelve years of revolution in Rojava. A review – Müslüm Örtülü [July 2024]
Twelve years of revolution in Rojava - a review
by Müslüm Örtülü, employee of Civaka Azad - Kurdish Center for Public Relations
The twelve-year history of the revolution in Rojava is a tale of war and resistance, of destruction and reconstruction, but above all of the implementation of an alternative, de [...]
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Concrete Steps Towards an Uncertain Future – Arif Rhein [July 2024]
Concrete Steps Towards an Uncertain Future
Arif Rhein, journalist
The Third World War has rapidly gained momentum in recent weeks and months - and has thus thrust the Middle East back into the global spotlight with full force as one of the centers of this war. The war in Palestine, a direct military exch [...]
Until They Regain Their Wisdom: The Story of the Snake Goddess Şahmaran and the Man’s Betrayal – Told by the guerrilla fighter Mehmet Nuri Ekinci [June 19, 2022]
...Until They Regain Their Wisdom: The Story of the Snake Goddess Şahmaran and the Man's Betrayal
Told by the guerrilla fighter Mehmet Nuri Ekinci
Myths and orally transmitted stories that have been passed down from one generation to the next for centuries are not only extremely exciting, but at [...]
Gurbetelli Ersöz: Scientist, Journalist, Guerillera. A Short History of the Kurdish Press – F. Adar Sönmez [June 05, 2022]
Gurbetelli Ersöz: Scientist, Journalist, Guerillera. A Short History of the Kurdish Press
F. Adar Sönmez
The first Kurdish newspaper, the `Kurdistan Newspaper`, was published on April 22, 1898 by Mikdat Mithat Bedirhan in exile in Cairo. This date has been celebrated as `Kurdistan Journalism Day` [...]
30 Years in a Cage: A Letter from the Political Prisoner Hüseyin Bilge [May 14, 2022]
30 Years in a Cage: A Letter from the Political Prisoner Hüseyin Bilge
Hüseyin Bilge has been a political prisoner of the Turkish state since 1992. At the age of 23, he was imprisoned with a group of about 20 students after the"Çetinkaya Store" had been burned down. In this personal account from prison to [...]
Assessment of the Current Political Situation: The Third World War and its Impact on Kurdistan – Ali Çiçek [May 07, 2022]
Assessment of the Current Political Situation: The Third World War and its Impact on Kurdistan
Ali Çiçek
The first quarter of 2022 has passed which allows us to determine key characteristics and dynamics of the current political phase. A proper understanding of political developments in their his [...]
Never Again: On the Responsibility of Western Societies to Take a Stand Against Genocide – Arif Rhein, staff member of Civaka Azad [April 30, 2022]
Never Again: On the Responsibility of Western Societies to Take a Stand Against Genocide
Arif Rhein, staff member of Civaka Azad - Kurdish Center for Public Relations e.V.
The current conflict in the Middle East is about more than partial military successes or the selective change of borders. The existence of en [...]
„We Demand Accountability for Garibe’s Death in a Turkish Prison“: The Story of Garibe is the Story of Women Who Believe in the Struggle – Pero Dundar, HDP MP in the Turkish Parliament [April 17, 2022]
"We Demand Accountability for Garibe's Death in a Turkish Prison": The Story of Garibe is the Story of Women Who Believe in the Struggle
Pero Dundar, HDP MP in the Turkish Parliament
Garibe, in Kurdish Xeribe, means "the stranger". But she was no stranger to the oppression of her people or of wom [...]
Shared resistance history: Kurdish-Palestinian struggles in the 1980s – Interview with PKK representative Duran Kalkan [April 11, 2022]
Shared Resistance History: Kurdish-Palestinian Struggles in the 1980s
In a comprehensive interview, Duran Kalkan, founding cadre and member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), evaluated the resistance of the PKK against the Israeli occupation of Lebanon on 2 June 1982.
What wa [...]