Turkey has strengthened its military presence on its border with Syria and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to take military action against emboldened Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, who are receiving support from the US in their fight against Daesh in Raqqa. Erdogan views the YPG, which controls part of Syria’s border with Turkey, as an extension of the Kurdish PKK, a Marxist insurgent group which has operated…
Category: PKK
PKK: ‘We Are Going to Spread War Across Turkey’
Bese Hozat, the co-chair of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) umbrella organisation the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), spoke to journalist Erdal Er in the Qandil Mountains and warned that the war between the Kurdish group and Turkish state would spread across the country. Qandil, a mountainous sanctuary and political center better known and more influential than many…
Detention of Kurdish Mayors is an Attack on Kurdish Democratic Autonomy
By FARC-EP After a detention order issued by Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor’s Office, anti-terror units police detained Amed Metropolitan Municipality co-mayor Gültan Kışanak at Diyarbakır Airport and co-mayor Fırat Anlı in his house, on Tuesday 25 October. Gültan Kışanak had just returned from Ankara when she got detained at the airport. In Ankara, she had been…
Interview With İlham Ehmed
Turkey may attack Efrîn ANF – SEYİT EVRAN Syria is heading towards an uncertainty which is widening the divide between the US and Russia. The relationship between the two powers on Syria has reached a stalemate. Meanwhile, Syrian government forces advance in Aleppo and Homs amidst an expansion of Turkey’s invasion of Syria. Syrian Democratic…
The Kurdish Women’s Movement, Primitive Nationalism & Fratricidal Sell-out Politics
While rightly condemning the actions of the genocidal Turkish state and the power-driven patriarchal motivations of Kurds that sell out to empire, the fact remains that the Kurds have allowed these influences and individuals to not only operate in their midst, but to flourish to the point where they have corrupted, even usurped, the tremendous…
The Kurdistan Projects
The current Kurdistan project, supported by France and the United States, has no connection with the legitimate project which was recognised by the same countries during the Sèvres Conference of 1920. It is not even situated anywhere near the same territory! This pseudo-Kurdistan is no more than a Western bribe intended to turn the Syrian…
