Tag Archives: Kurdistan

Turkey’s president has a morbid fear of these women – here’s why…

Posted on 27 September, 2016 by

The current Turkish regime has been regularly accused of sponsoring Daesh (Isis/Isil) and other jihadi groups in Syria. One of the main reasons for this behaviour has been Turkey’s opposition to a feminist social revolution taking place on the Syrian-Turkish border – … Continue reading →

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Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces planned 18 months back

Posted on 31 August, 2016 by

The invasion of northern Syria by Turkey was not triggered, as Ankara claims, by the latest suicide attack on Gaziantep, which saw scores of Kurdish civilians dead or injured, but was the culmination of a plan hatched around 18 months ago, with subsequent … Continue reading →

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As Turkish land/air offensive escalates, Kurdish militias (YPG/J) reject Biden-Erdogan ultimatum

Posted on 25 August, 2016 by

  Turkish armed forces have just crossed into Syria with US air support. But this was not an operation focused on pushing Daesh (Isis/Isil) out of the border city of Jarabulus, as some sources have insisted. Amid suggestions of ethnic cleansing against Kurdish … Continue reading →

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Turkey, Iran & Russia agree to neutralise Kurds as Assad’s warplanes attack YPG/J

Posted on 22 August, 2016 by

  Turkey has just reached an ‘understanding’ with Iran and with Russia over the fate of Syria. And this has coincided with a relentless Syrian bombardment of the most effective ground forces in the fight against Daesh (Isis/Isil). Since 16 August, the Syrian air force has … Continue reading →

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Minbiç women liberated from ISIS – their horror stories and their desperate appeal for aid

Posted on 21 August, 2016 by

For more than two months there has been a relentless war in the area of Minbiç. Minbiç is strategically important as it connects Turkey with Raqqa, the headquarters of ISIS. The area is also important for the protection of the … Continue reading →

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Demands that Erdogan prove jailed Kurdish PKK leader Ocalan (Turkey’s ‘Mandela’) alive and well

Posted on 20 July, 2016 by

Concerns over the fate of Turkey’s highest profile political prisoner, Abdullah Ocalan, the head of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), have been expressed by one of Turkey’s main opposition parties, the HDP. Many regard Ocalan as Turkey’s ‘Nelson Mandela’. He … Continue reading →

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Turkey: HDP party calls for ‘democratic front’; people to defend themselves

Posted on 18 July, 2016 by

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) today released a statement on the failed coup in Turkey. HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş blamed Erdogan for creating the conditions for the military coup. He called for an alliance of all parties and organisations that … Continue reading →

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