2025-10-02T23:17:03+00:00 Shafaq News – Erbil Peshawa Hall in Erbil held its first orchestral concert on Thursday, marking World Music Day under the theme “Kurdish Song and World Music on One Stage.” Organized by Cihan University, ...

The Co-Chairs of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan, met with Alevi organizations and institutions at the DEM Party Headquarters in Ankara on Thursday. Hatimoğulları and Bakırhan were ...

Following their presentations at the 13th meeting of the National Solidarity, Brotherhood, and Democracy Commission established in Parliament to resolve the Kurdish issue, the Co-Chairs of the Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD), Ekin Yeter ...

The Free Women’s Movement (TJA) is organizing a march from Amed (tr. Diyarbakır) to the Turkish capital Ankara under the motto “We walk to freedom with hope.” The march, which kicked off on Wednesday, will ...

Kurdish activist Mehmet Çakas was released after two years and ten months in prison for alleged PKK membership and was greeted enthusiastically by a large crowd outside Uelzen Prison. Many family members, friends, and companions ...

KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Member Mustafa Karasu commemorated Rıza Altun, one of the founding members of the PKK, on the 6th anniversary of his martyrdom, and Musa Anter on the 33rd anniversary of ...

Saman Ghazali, a Kurdish journalist and civil rights activist from Mahabad, has been interrogated by security forces after being summoned by telephone to the Public Security Police of the Law Enforcement Command (FARAJA). The Kurdistan ...

Syrian Transitional Government forces have closed the two roads leading to the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah neighborhoods of Aleppo province. Seven main roads (Leyramûn Junction, Cendul Junction, Park Road, Şîhan Junction, Telet Eşrefiyê, Ewarid, Cizîre) ...

French historian Jean-Numa Ducange, in a message he sent in support of Abdullah Öcalan’s February 27 call, said: “Supporting the Kurdish question with a democratic and peaceful perspective is more important than ever.” ANF NEWS ...

The Press Center of the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria announced that, in cooperation with the Anti-Terror Forces (Hêzên Anti-Teror, HAT), nine mercenaries were detained in an operation east of Der ez-Zor, ...