Tag "Abdullah Ocalan"
Back to homepageTurkey: hunger strikes for Öcalan reach a critical stage
Hundreds of Kurdish detainees in Turkish prisons are carrying out a hunger strike to demand an end to the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan
Read MoreOpen Letter to UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt
Seven Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey have taken their own lives in the last three weeks
Read MoreUnite – Trade unionists must try to free the Middle Eastern Mandela
Unite’s Tony Burke has visited a hunger striking Kurdish MP
Read MoreThe Democratic Nation Paradigm
This text was translated from subtitles of a Youtube video in Arabic that has since been deleted, on 27 October 2016
Read MoreAN URGENT APPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Abdullah Öcalan’s unlawful and inhumane isolation must be ended immediately
Read More“Your Struggle is Mine”: Revolutionary Letters to Leyla Güven
On February 11, HDP MP Leyla Güven, was on the 96th day of her hunger strike protesting against the isolation of the PKK’s (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan
Read MoreThe theory and practice of the Kurdish Women’s Movement: an interview in Diyarbakir
One of the undisputed achievements of the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Syria is the advancement of women in social, economic, and political domains of life
Read MoreWhy are 162 Kurdish political prisoners on hunger strike?
Sarah Glynn, committee member of Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan, explains the context behind a mass hunger strike in Turkish prisons
Read MoreSinn Fein MEP calls for international action for Leyla Guven
Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson has called for international action in support of Kurdish politician Leyla Guven who is currently on hunger strike and is now in critical condition
Read MoreSolidarity with the Kurdish struggle… without Öcalan?
The Kurdish movement is being attacked on all political, societal, military, and ideological levels. In the circles that we move in, people are conscious of the state repression against the movement in Europe
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