2025-06-05T22:07:50+00:00 Shafaq News/ Turkish military operations in Iraqi Kurdistan escalated in May, rising by 143% compared to April, according to data from the Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT). The surge in attacks came shortly after the ...

2025-06-05T20:00:28+00:00 Shafaq News/ On Thursday, Deputy Head of Foreign Relations for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Falah Mustafa met Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow to discuss disputes with Baghdad and the need ...

2025-06-05T19:27:33+00:00 Shafaq News/ On Thursday, Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani pledged to continue defending the rights of the Kurdish people through all necessary constitutional measures. In a statement on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, Barzani ...

The co-spokespersons of the DEM Party Ecology, Agriculture and Animal Rights Commission, Melis Tantan and İbrahim Akın, stated in a written declaration: “We are living in an era where the cycle of nature is disrupted ...

As Turkey’s government grows increasingly authoritarian, prison conditions, already a mirror of how the country is governed, have worsened. In today’s climate, even chanting slogans is criminalized and used as grounds for arrest. The newly ...

After the early elections in February, the Left Party’s top candidate, Cansu Özdemir, moved from the Hamburg State Parliament to the Bundestag. Following her unexpected election to the federal parliament, she is now taking on ...

After screenings in Turkey, ‘The Life of a Snowflake’, written, directed, and produced by Kurdish filmmaker Kazım Öz, began its European screenings. The film stars Sema Gültekin (Miase), Cezmi Baskın (Nejat), and Münir Can Cindoruk ...

The Freedom for Öcalan Vigil has been ongoing since 2012, demanding an end to the isolation system on İmralı Island and the physical freedom of Öcalan, continues into its 677th week with a new group. ...

A new campaign was launched by the European Forum for Freedom and Peace (EFFP). The campaign is called “I Want to Visit Öcalan”, and the organizers “call on the international public to support the current ...

Five more mayors from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) have been suspended from duty by the Ministry of the Interior as part of corruption investigations based in Istanbul. With the suspension of these five mayors, ...