Nilüfer Koç is the spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), a coalition of political parties and civil society organisations from Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. Green Left spoke to her about the challenges ahead following the historic February 27 call by imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s for the disarmament and dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
Salih Muslim, spoke to Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the significance for Rojava of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s February 27 call for the disarmament and dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom is an absolute necessity and would be a historic step, writes Devriş Çimen.
The Kurdish community joined global protests against the Turkish military’s latest incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan with a rally in the CBD. Peter Boyle reports.
Nilüfer Koç writes that imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has become a symbol as well as an effective actor for progressive change in the Middle East — and must be freed.
Kurds and their supporters in France, Germany, and Switzerland protested on July 8 over new death threats against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan who has been imprisoned by the Turkish state for the past 24 years, reports Peter Boyle.
A large march took place in Paris, on January 7, to demand justice for three Kurdish female activists assassinated by a Turkish gunman in that city 10 years ago. Sarah Glynn participated in the march.
An emergency rally at Sydney Town Hall Square called for the immediate end to the cruel and illegal isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. Video by Peter Boyle.
Nilüfer Koç from the Kurdish National Congress spoke at the Ecosocialism 2022 conference about the popular uprising in Iran, war in Ukraine and Rojava Revolution. Alex Bainbridge and Susan Price report.
Shocking video footage was released on October 18, showing the painful death of two young Kurdish freedom fighters, who were among 17 people recently killed in a chemical weapons attack by Turkey, reports Peter Boyle.
The Yazidi Justice Committee released a damning report in July on the complicity of various governments in the Islamic State genocide against the Yezidi. Peter Boyle reports.
A landmark appeal against a 2019 ban imposed on a leading Kurdish publisher and music distributor failed in the German Federal Administrative Court on January 26, reports Kerry Smith.
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