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Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters, who reportedly withdrew from Turkey with their weapons, stand to attention during a ceremony in the Qandil area of northern, Iraq, Oct 26, 2025
Middle East / 26 October 2025
26 October 2025
South Sudanese who have escaped Sudan shelter in a transit c
World / 6 March 2025
6 March 2025
People take part in a Kurdish community march in central Lon
Britain / 11 December 2024
11 December 2024
A balloon presumably sent by North Korea, is seen in a paddy
World / 11 August 2024
11 August 2024
World / 2 October 2023
2 October 2023
The Kurdish flag flies in Erbil, the in Iraqi Kurdistan
World / 18 April 2022
18 April 2022
A Turkish Air Force Jet
World / 16 February 2022
16 February 2022
Attacks coincide with the 23rd anniversary of the abduction of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan
World / 31 January 2022
31 January 2022
Opinion / 11 November 2021
11 November 2021
Are we witnessing the beginnings of a new reconciliation process in Syria, with a pivot away from Washington, asks MARCEL CARTIER
Features / 6 April 2021
6 April 2021
As the largest stateless ethnic group in the world, the Kurds deserve our support — that means opposing their persecution in Turkey and securing the release of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Arrested Kurdish writer Mostafa Ilkhanizadeh
World / 29 January 2021
29 January 2021
The sun begins to set behind the golden dome of Imam Hussein
World / 12 October 2020
12 October 2020
Kurdish kids on a demonstration demanding the release of PKK
World / 11 October 2020
11 October 2020
by Steve Sweeney in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan
Suna Alan
Features / 26 June 2020
26 June 2020
Steve Sweeney spoke to Kurdish singer SUNA ALAN ahead of her online performance this Sunday
A US soldier watches members of the Syrian Democratic Forces
World / 29 September 2019
29 September 2019
Hunger striker Ozkan Ozdemir
Features / 17 May 2019
17 May 2019
Ozkan Ozdemir is one of 7,000 who are on hunger strike in protest at the continued isolation of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan. He spoke to Steve Sweeney
Kurds protest in Paris against the murder of PKK co-founder
World / 16 May 2019
16 May 2019
PKK co-founder Sakine Cansiz was one of the women killed in Paris in 2013
Turkey has kept Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdulla
Breaking / 16 May 2019
16 May 2019
Turkey has kept Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdulla
World / 3 May 2019
3 May 2019
The hunger strike coincides with World Press Freedom
Hunger striking protesters outside Amnesty International's L
Britain / 26 April 2019
26 April 2019
Kurdish activists occupying the human rights charity's entrance say they have been blocked from using the toilets
A screenshot of a video posted by the Kurdish occupiers in A
Britain / 25 April 2019
25 April 2019
Twenty-three activists are calling on the human rights charity to end its silence on Turkey’s abuses of prisoners, including the solitary confinement of Kurdistan Workers’ Party founder Abdullah Ocalan
Hunger-striking Kurdish MP Leyla Guven
Features / 18 April 2019
18 April 2019
World / 26 March 2019
26 March 2019
Die Linke MP Martin Dolzer becomes the first non-Kurdish politician to join the protest
Hunger strikers in Strasbourg
Opinion / 27 February 2019
27 February 2019
SARAH GLYNN of Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan travelled to France to witness extraordinary acts of solidarity
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to MPs of his
Britain / 15 January 2019
15 January 2019
General secretaries of 14 unions remain defiant after Turkey's ambassador demands they pull out of the Freedom for Ocalan campaign
Britain / 10 December 2018
10 December 2018
The protesters are taking action in support of imprisoned Turkish opposition MP, who has been on hunger strike since November
Women carry YPG and YPJ flags in Rojava
World / 4 December 2018
4 December 2018
Graffiti on a wall in Diyarbakir, the unofficial Kurdish cap
World / 3 September 2018
3 September 2018
Britain / 3 September 2018
3 September 2018
by Sam Tobin at Westminster magistrates' court
A PKK flag
Exclusive: / 29 August 2018
29 August 2018
Sam Tobin at Westminster magistrates’ court
Dirk Campbell, father of Anna, speaks at a vigil in her home
Features / 5 July 2018
5 July 2018
MARK CAMPBELL on a family's struggle to find out the truth about their daughter's death
Pro-Kurdish demonstrators protest against Turkish military o
Features / 24 April 2018
24 April 2018
ROSA GILBERT explains how a new Italian campaign, SiAmo Afrin, aims to raise money and raise the profile of the stricken people of Afrin
Salih Muslim's supporters protest outside the Interior Minis
Europe / 26 February 2018
26 February 2018
Europe / 28 January 2018
28 January 2018
Solidarity with the Kurds / 30 November 2017
30 November 2017
World / 13 April 2017
13 April 2017
World / 13 April 2017
13 April 2017
World / 19 March 2017
19 March 2017
Threats, violence, arrests await No campaigners
World / 5 January 2017
5 January 2017
Two gunmen, officer and court worker killed
World / 23 December 2016
23 December 2016
Britain / 19 December 2016
19 December 2016
World / 31 October 2016
31 October 2016
Editorial / 20 October 2016
20 October 2016