(This is a story from spring 2017 that was already on my website but not archived, and newsletter subscribers will get an alert that it’s ‘published’ now.) In the summer of 2014 the world watched as the Yezidis of Iraq fled to the mountains after Daesh occupied their lands, massacred their men and kidnapped their […]
(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 […]
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 Dutch version was published at the site of Dutch daily De Volkskrant.
(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 […]
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 […]