Al-Monitor

Syria’s Kurdish artists defy ISIS mentality through music, dance

In northeast Syria, Kurdish women are using music and performance to assert cultural identity, promote female empowerment and ...
IFEX

Pro-Kurdish website editor freed after six months in prison

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the release on 1 October 2006 of writer and human rights advocate Mohammed Ghanem, who was arrested on 31 March ...
World Socialist Web Site

Öcalan calls on Kurdish PKK to lay down arms and dissolve itself

A delegation from the Kurdish nationalist People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) visited imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan for the third time on Thursday. As ...
World Socialist Web Site

Kurdish nationalist DEM Party delegation meets imprisoned PKK leader Öcalan

Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Pervin Buldan, deputies of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), met on December 28 with Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), who ...
bianet

Access to Kurdish rights-focused Yeni Yaşam newspaper's website blocked for fourth time

Yeni Yaşam, a prominent newspaper focusing on Kurdish rights, faced another instance of access restriction as its website was blocked once again. This marks the fourth time that the publication's ...
al.com

Etowah County Sheriff's website hacked by Kurdish supporter

The website for the Etowah County Sheriff's Office was hacked Saturday. According to WBRC and The Gadsden Times, a hacker posted "HaCKeD by MuhmadEmad, Long Live to peshmarga," on the Sheriff's ...
CNN

Kurdish militia declares ceasefire following leader’s call to end five-decade insurgency with Turkey

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the group ...
CNN

Kurdish separatist leader calls on followers to disarm, potentially ending a five-decade insurgency with Turkey

Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with Turkey ...
Rudaw

Real-time website launched to track donations for Kurdistan flood victims

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A new website has been launched to allow people to track - in real time - the funds collected for victims of recent heavy rains and flooding in the Chamchamal district of the ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation

Kurdish militants claim responsibility for attacks-website

ISTANBUL, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants claimed responsibility for simultaneous attacks on Turkish troops in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, saying nearly 100 security ...
Reuters

Iran hangs Kurdish activist, reformist website says

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran hanged a Kurdish activist on Wednesday, a reformist website said, a day after a Western rights group called for his death sentence to be revoked. The Mowjcamp website, citing ...