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  • Two hidden youngsters hold poster with face of a smiling man
    Öcalan and the PKK

    From terrorist to peacemaker

    On Saturday, the PKK declared a ceasefire in response to jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan's call to disarm. The collapse of the last Turkey-PKK ceasefire in 2015 triggered an eruption of violence. Will Öcalan succeed in ending the 47-year-old conflict this time?

  • Iranian Kurdish singer Hani Mojtahedi
    Kurdish singer Hani Mojtahedi

    Myths re-imagined

    Kurdish singer Hani Mojtahedi and German electro legend Andi Toma of Mouse On Mars have collaborated on an album that also pays homage to Mojtahedi’s grandfather, a Sufi master

  • View of the Kurdish town of Sulaymaniyah
    Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan

    Kurds drifting away from democracy

    In Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan, regional elections are being repeatedly postponed, institutions weakened and structures are becoming more autocratic

  • Women burn incense in a procession during a mass funeral for Yazidi victims of Islamic State (IS) in the northern Iraqi village of Kojo in Sinjar district
    German immigration policy

    Yazidis relive the horror as deportation looms

    Recently Germany's "culture of welcome" has given way to a much tougher asylum and immigration policy. Now Yazidi survivors of IS genocide face an uncertain, potentially re-traumatising future

  • Doves in a tree
    Kurdistan + 100

    Stories from a future republic

    "Kurdistan + 100" is the third anthology in Comma Press's "future past" series, and a fourth – Egypt + 100 – is set to be published next year. Writers are asked to imagine a moment in the future connected to an event in their shared past

  • Armenian genocide denial is a great and enduring lie by the Turkish state, characterised by ongoing violence and racism. Yavuz Ekinci takes up the subject in an unsparing and powerful novel: "Das ferne Dorf meiner Kindheit" – 'the distant village of my childhood'. Gerrit Wustmann read the book
    The deserted villages of the soul

    Yavuz Ekinci's new novel

    Armenian genocide denial is a great and enduring lie by the Turkish state, characterised by ongoing violence and racism. Yavuz Ekinci takes up the subject in an unsparing and powerful novel: "Das ferne Dorf meiner Kindheit" – 'the distant village of my childhood'. Gerrit Wustmann read the book

  • Excluding Kurdistan from a new infrastructure project in Iraq, designed to connect the Gulf with Turkey via road and rail, is purely political – despite the economic unfeasibility argument.
    Connecting the Gulf with Turkey

    Iraq's Transport Corridors – no place for Kurdistan?

    Excluding Kurdistan from a new infrastructure project in Iraq, designed to connect the Gulf with Turkey via road and rail, is purely political – despite the economic unfeasibility argument. Commentary by Sardar Aziz

  • Focusing on music from the Levant to Central Asia, Osnabruck's Morgenland Festival occupies a special place in the German festival landscape.
    Morgenland Festival Osnabruck

    Countering patriarchal cliches

    Focusing on music from the Levant to Central Asia, Osnabruck's Morgenland Festival occupies a special place in the German festival landscape. Prior to the 18th festival, which begins on 21 June, Stefan Franzen spoke to festival manager Michael Dreyer about the musical concept, the political dimension, and whether the term 'Morgenland' [engl. 'the East', 'Orient'] is still in keeping with the times

  • Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq

    The deep scars left by IS terror

    For centuries, the Yazidis lived in the northern Iraqi region of Sinjar. In 2014, the region was overrun by the so-called "Islamic State", which committed genocide against the Yazidi population. This brutal chapter in Yazidi history has left deep and lasting scars. To this day, the community in Sinjar is still picking up the pieces. By Birgit Svensson

  • Blessed winners: people in Kazakhstan believe Nowruz brings renewal and good luck. That is why the houses are cleaned in advance to protect their inhabitants from illness and misfortune. During the festival itself, there are competitions between groups of men and women. If the women win, it is considered a blessing; if the men win, a bad year is in store – according to popular belief.

    Nowruz: New Year, Spring Festival and National Holiday

  • Nowruz: New Year, Spring Festival and National Holiday

    In Persian and Central Asian cultures, Nowruz has the same significance as Christmas in Europe, Thanksgiving in the USA or the New Year in China. The celebration is preceded by days of preparation.

  • The murder of another young woman by a family member has led to renewed calls for Iraq's government to finally enact a law on domestic violence.
    Iraqi YouTube star's murder

    How to end domestic violence in Iraq?

    In Iraq, the murder of another young woman by a family member has led to renewed calls for the country's government to finally enact a law on domestic violence, one that has been stuck in parliamentary limbo for years. Cathrin Schaer reports

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