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Syria says no dialogue with Turkey before Ankara announces plans to withdraw its troops
Newsday· 4 days agoFaisal Mekdad made the comments during a joint news conference with Iran’s acting foreign minister,...
Pro-Kurdish lawmakers stage protest in Turkey's parliament to denounce the ouster of a new mayor
U-T San Diego· 4 days agoMore than a dozen legislators from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party staged a demonstration in parliament on Tuesday to denounce the arrest and expulsion from office of a newly elected ...
Turkey's defense minister says planned elections by Syrian Kurdish groups are 'unacceptable'
Newsday· 5 days agoPlans by U.S.-backed Kurdish groups to conduct local elections in northern Syria are “unacceptable”...
Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish mayor two months after election
Reuters via AOL· 6 days agoPolice detained a pro-Kurdish party mayor in southeast Turkey on Monday over alleged militant links and he has been replaced by the state governor, the interior ministry said ...
Turkey jails ousted pro-Kurdish mayor for nearly 20 years | FOX 28 Spokane
FOX 28 Spokane· 3 days agoA court in Turkey jailed Wednesday a pro-Kurdish mayor for 19 and a half years for “terrorism”, his lawyer said, a ruling denounced as a “coup d’etat” by his party. Mehmet ...
Armed Syrian Kurdish women stand guard over precious wheatfields
WYDC-TV· 3 days agoThe 42-year-old is among dozens of volunteers, some of them women, helping the semi-autonomous ...
‘Strangers in their own land’: Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on from genocide
San Francisco Chronicle· 5 days agoDuring my ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2019, I witnessed how this festival brings joy to the displaced Yazidis as they celebrate with family and friends and ...