Democratic Free Women's Movement (DÖKH) put up a "Democratic liberation and solution" tent at Seyit Rıza Square of Dersim to inform the public about the "resolution process" and to discuss the process of "withdrawal" of HPG (People's Defense Forces) guerrillas across Turkish borders as of 8 May. Posters of Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), Fidan Doğan, KNK (Kurdistan National Co ...

The Mesopotamian Movement for Democratic Culture and Art in Europe (TEV-ÇAND) released the final resolution of its fourth conference which took place in the German city of Düsseldorf on 11-12 May and saw the participation of delegates and guests from various countries. The final declaration pointed out that the conference had been organized in the process of the "democratic political struggle" Kurdish leade ...

The third edition of Filmamed Documentary Film Festival opened on Saturday in Diyarbakır. The festival is dedicated to Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), Fidan Doğan, KNK (Kurdistan National Congress) Paris representative, and Leyla Şaylemez, member of the Kurdish youth movement, who were killed in the French capital Paris on 9 January. The festival begun on Saturday and will run ...

People's Defense Forces Press Office HPG-BIM said in a written statement that Turkish army carried out a bombardment with howitzer and mortars, targeting the areas of Oremar and Martyr Karker Hills in Hakkari's Yüksekova district on 17 May. HPG-BİM remarked that the region of Gare in Hakkari was also bombed by Turkish warplanes in the same day. According to HPG-BIM,Turkish reconnaissance airplanes have been ...

The 8th London Kurdish Film Festival will be held in London in 2013 from 15th-24th November. The main venue for the festival will be the Picture House Hackney. The festival organising committee has invited all Kurdish and non-Kurdish directors who have made films about the Kurdish people or Kurdish issues to submit their work for possible inclusion in this year’s festival programme. The LKFF accepts feature ...

The number of women who requested and benefited from police protection rose on average by 36 percent every month, following the implementation of "Family Protection and Prevention of Violence Against Women" Act in March 2012. A compilation made by bianet and based on reports in local and national newspapers and news agencies, revealed that men killed 162 women since the implementation of the act in March 20 ...

First of all let me explain why I mention the names of  Lice, Paris and Reyhanlı together: these three places witnessed massacres in the last day of 2012 and the beginning of 2013. We need to remember and make something out these massacres once again now, given the fact that they should be seen as attempts aimed to sabotage the process of democratic solution for the Kurdish question initiated by Kurdish peo ...

Ten soldiers of the Syrian army were killed in severe clashes with People's Defense Forces (YPG) groups in the mainly Kurdish neighborhood of Sheikh Maksoud on Thursday. According to a written statement by YPG Press Office, clashes in the neighborhood broke out as the armed forces of the Baath regime launched an attack from the points of Al Jazeera and Al Ewarid in order to enter the neighborhood. Sixteen s ...

Turkey Branch of the International Committee Against Disappearances (ICAD) has started the activities of the “International Week against Enforced Disappearances in Custody" from 17-31 May with a sit-in in Istanbul's Galatasaray Square on Thursday. The press statement for the sit-in was read by ICAD's Turkey Representative Ayşe Yılmaz who started her speech by telling the story of 18-year-old struggle Saturd ...

The Democratic and Free Women's Movement (DÖKH) has put up a "Democratic Solution Tent" in Şırnak's Balveren district with the support and participation of a number of women who are joining the vigil for peace and a democratic solution to the Kurdish question. The women taking part in the vigil action in the tent demand the liberation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and the prevention of probable ...