陌lham Ehmed is a member of the Executive Committee of the Movement For A Democratic Society (TEV-DEM), the leading political movement in the self-governing cantons in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan). She was interviewed by G眉nay Aksoy and Zana Kaya for on October 26.
Syria
One year ago, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) began its brutal assault on the city of Kobane in the largely Kurdish region of Rojava in the north of Syria. The violent fanatics were seeking to destroy the profoundly democratic, multi-ethnic and feminist revolution under way in the liberated autonomous region.
The Democratic Forces of Syria held a founding meeting on October 12 and released a final declaration three days later, on October 17.
On October 12, Amnesty International released a alleging 鈥渃ivilians living in areas of northern Syria under the de facto control of the Autonomous Administration led by the Partiya Yek卯tiya Demokrat (Democratic Union Party, PYD) are being subjected to serious abuses that include forced displacement and home demolitions.鈥
The report said some of these alleged abuses were war crimes.
Activists from Turkey's Kurdish lead People's Democratic Party (HDP).
Russia鈥檚 current military action in Syria, its first such action outside former Soviet territory, has shocked the world.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdo臒an exclaimed, miserably: 鈥淩ussia has no border with Syria, so why are they so interested in Syria?鈥
Russia followed the lead of Western powers on September 30 and began direct military intervention in Syria 鈥 using the same form (air strikes) and the same declared enemy, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Russia's campaign, aimed to shore up the beleaguered regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, will also target the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and other armed groups fighting the dictatorship.
Russia's entry into the fray has dramatically heightened tensions between Russia and the West and further complicated the already confused, multi-sided conflict in Syria.
September 21 was declared International Peace Day by the United Nations.
This is an abridged version of a speech given by Pip Hinman on behalf of Sydney Stop the War Coalition to protest against the bombing of Syria at a rally on that day.
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Stop the War Coalition (STWC) adds its voice to those saying Australia should not join the latest 鈥淐oalition of the Killing鈥 and the disastrous bombing of Syria.
It is a long and perilous journey for those fleeing war-torn Syria in hopes of reaching safety. But one such refugee refused to make journey without his cat.
Photos have emerged in Greek media showing the moment the unnamed refugee landed on the island of Lesbos, cradling the tiny cat he could not bear to leave behind. The man had few other possessions when he crossed the Mediterranean Sea, according to Greek news outlet Protothema.
It is the single image that has crystallised the horror of the refugee crisis in Europe: On September 2, a photographer took a picture of the lifeless body of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, a Kurdish refugee from Syria, lying face-down on a Turkish beach.
The toddler was one of at least 12 refugees 鈥 including his five-year-old brother Galip, and their mother Rihan 鈥 who drowned during a desperate bid to reach the Greek island of Kos, joining more than 2500 refugees who have perished in the Mediterranean this year.
HDP rally ahead of the June 7 election.
The following was issued by the foreign affairs commission of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) on September 10.
Sometimes the fate of a child is written 100 years before they are born. Some will view this as a reductionist approach or fatalistic, but here we are not talking of a divine fate, we are talking of historical forces, politics, power, hegemony, economic exploitation and colonialism.
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