(This is a radio interview from late 2016, that was already on my website but not archived, and newsletter subscribers will get an alert that it’s ‘published’ now.) Interview in Dutch current affairs radio show ‘Met het oog op morgen’, about TAK-attack in Istanbul on 10 December 2016. I was at a PKK base in […]
(This is a story from late 2016, that was already on my website but not archived, and newsletter subscribers will get an alert that it’s ‘published’ now.) KIRKUK – On 27 November 1978 the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, was founded. Your Byline correspondent witnessed how the organisation celebrated that at a base […]
(This is a story from late 2016, that was already on my website but not archived, and newsletter subscribers will get an alert that it’s ‘published’ now.) Kirkuk – PKK-commandant Cudi zong, op het volleybalveldje op een PKK-basis niet ver van de Iraaks-Koerdische stad Kirkuk, een lied en was plotseling de tekst kwijt. Lees verder […]
(This is a story from late 2016, that was already on my website but not archived, and newsletter subscribers will get an alert that it’s ‘published’ now.) Koerdische media krijgen klappen, maar Europa houdt onder Turkse druk haar mond. Lees het hele stuk op de site van de Volkskrant. The English version is available here.
(This is a story from late 2016, that was already on my website but not archived, and newsletter subscribers will get an alert that it’s ‘published’ now.) The European Commission spoke out for press freedom in Turkey. Which seems praiseworthy – until you take a closer look. Read the full story here on Byline! The […]
(This is a story from late 2016, that was already on my website but not archived, and newsletter subscribers will get an alert that it’s ‘published’ now.) MAXMUR – The city wars in Turkey’s Kurdish regions are mostly over. Many fighters of the YPS, the Kurdish armed youth group that fought the Turkish army, lost […]
On 25 October 2016, I contributed to Al Jazeera’s The Stream about the battle for Mosul. Watch it here at the Al Jazeera website! (Updating my website, October 2018)
MAKHMUR, Iraq ― Diversity is what defined the land that is now Nineveh Province and its capital city, Mosul, for thousands of years. Like other parts of the Middle East, it is historically multi-ethnic and multi-religious. While many of those who now fight hard to kick the so-called Islamic State out of Mosul pay lip […]
This story was published in Dutch weekly news magazine Vrij Nederland, 14 September 2016. Met het leren van een nieuwe taal ga je ook een nieuwe wereld binnen. Als dat ergens van toepassing is, dan is het wel in het PKK-taalonderwijskamp. Correspondent Fréderike Geerdink verbleef drie maanden in het kamp in een uithoek van Irak. […]
This article was published on Byline, 6 September 2016. Why did the PKK take the war against the Turkish state to the cities of Kurdistan, which are now one after another reduced to rubble by the state’s tanks and helicopters? PKK co-leader Cemil Bayik: ‘What is a rocket against a tank, a helicopter, a fighter […]
Fréderike Geerdink
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