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  1. Turkey: Erdogan manoeuvres to retain power after election shock

    the border in northern Syria 鈥 a new election would be unlikely to deliver a majority for the AKP and ... January 2014 gendarmerie officers stopped three trucks bound for Syria. The trucks were under the control ... zone in northern Syria). There have even been reports that the army is giving military training to the ...

  2. Turkey, hands off Rojava!

    Kurdish-majority multi-ethnic territory of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AA). In ... which they live. But that is enough to earn them the enmity of the autocratic regimes in Turkey, Syria ... parts of Syria and the obstacle to their return is the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship 鈥 not the Kurds and ...

  3. Rojava Revolution- seven years on

    Democratic Forces (SDF) July 19 marked the seventh anniversary of northern Syria鈥檚 Rojava Revolution. On that ... Northern and Eastern Syria (NES). Together with civic councils in towns liberated from the Islamic State ... (Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor), today it governs a third of Syria鈥檚 territory. Women鈥檚 army The ...

  4. Rojava Revolution: What does the 鈥榮afe zone鈥 deal mean?

    this sense Rojava is a women鈥檚 revolution. The general conditions in northern Syria are very different ... Northern Syria, in total about 115 kilometres of border between Syria and Turkey. 2. The zone would be five ... SDF military councils and the civil control of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria ...

  5. Turkish attacks on PKK meet fierce resistance

    autonomy and democracy 鈥 whether it be in Turkey, Syria or northern Iraq. Turkey attacks Kurds everywhere ... In early 2018 Turkey invaded northern Syria and occupied Afrin, the geographically isolated western ... peaceful part of Syria. Last year Turkey invaded Rojava again and occupied a strip of land between Tel ...

  6. Ambitious conference to discuss support for Rojava

    Community Centre (NSW, DKCC) Naarm/Melbourne 鈥淭he Rojava Revolution in Northern Syria: An experiment in ... the Rojava Revolution and build support for it. For six years Syria has been engulfed in a terrible ... established the Democratic Federal System of Northern Syria as a model for a multi-ethnic, federal and ...

  7. Rojava conference to discuss support for commune-style democracy

    struggle in northern Syria enters perhaps its most critical phase. 鈥淭he Rojava Revolution in Northern ... Syria: An experiment in radical democracy, feminism & ecology鈥 will be held in Melbourne on June 30 ... problems it faces and to build support for it. For six years Syria has been engulfed in a terrible war. The ...

  8. Kobane: Epic resistance increases pressure on US and Turkey

    Kurdish-majority area in northern Syria is a far bigger problem for them and they simply do not want it to succeed. ... liberated zone in Syria of which Kobane is a part. It has close ties to the PKK and has a similar outlook. ... agreed to a Turkish buffer zone inside Syria. Rojava is opposed to the Assad regime and its relations ...

  9. Kurds mobilise to fight Islamic State

    Kurdish people are facing an unprecedented challenge. Across a vast swathe of northern Syria and Iraq, the ... Kobane in Syria to Mosul and Kirkuk in Iraq 鈥 and all points in between. Flush with money seized from ... their own. They are divided between Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran with a large diaspora in Europe. ...

  10. Kurdish liberated zone appeals for support against assault by Islamic State thugs

    September 15, the city of Kobane in the Kurdish-majority liberated area of Rojava in northern Syria has been ... us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Iraq Syria September 19, 2014 1026 Kurdish freedom fighters ...

  11. Why the Kurdish struggle is so important

    focus is on Turkey and Rojava (the Kurdish majority liberated zone in northern Syria) where the struggle ... sectarian and inter-communal violence. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) embodies this with its ... diversity through ruthless violence. This is clear in Syria and Iraq, where the ISIS fanatics control ...

  12. 'We need our version of the Rojava Revolution right here'-- speech to Melbourne meeting marking PKK founding

    democracy in the largely Kurdish area region of Rojava in northern Syria led by allies of the Turkish-based ... in northern Syria and Iraq, and in both theory and practice is the complete opposite of everything ... Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Syria Turkey Kurdistan December 21, 2015 1080 PKK fighters. Analysis ...

  13. Kobane: Heroic defence resists 鈥業slamic State鈥 assault

    Subscribe to 麻豆传媒 now! You can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Syria Turkey ...

  14. Campaign launched to de-list the PKK

    in fighting the Islamic State killers in Syria and Iraq and in mobilising support within Turkey for ... Rojava (the Kurdish-majority liberated zone in northern Syria), to label the PKK as 鈥渢errorist鈥 is simply ...

  15. Say no to Tony Abbott鈥檚 new war

    provides vital transit facilities to IS fighters coming and going to Syria; it treats IS wounded in Turkish ... IS-controlled fields in northern Syria thus providing vital funds. US AVOIDS DEALINGS WITH KURDISH LIBERATION ... Syria. The PKK has played a decisive role in fighting IS in a number of battles on the borders of the ...

  16. Greens leader supports Kurdish rights

    contradiction between Australia鈥檚 participation in a supposed anti-terrorist coalition in Iraq and Syria ... Kurdish struggle in Rojava in northern Syria was a 鈥渂eacon of hope鈥 in the Middle East and must be ...

  17. Turkey: Erdogan鈥檚 ruthless bid to retain power risks return to dark days

    be revived and Turkey鈥檚 support for Islamist forces in Syria would end. Just two months later, such ... against ISIS in Syria actually enables the opposite. The only war Turkey has shown any willingness to ... popular forces in Rojava, the Kurdish-majority liberated zone in northern Syria. 鈼 Attack the PKK forces ...

  18. Turkey: Kurds fight for language, rights

    the siege of Kobani 鈥 a Kurdish town in Syria's north 鈥 demonstrate that Turkey's rulers ...

  19. Call to de-list PKK gathers support

    in the fight against Islamic State barbarism in northern Syria and Iraq, the bans are completely ...

  20. Turkey: High stakes for Kurds and Erdogan in coming poll

    Kurdish-majority town in northern Syria, by the Islamic State gangs and the epic popular resistance has impacted on ...

  21. Turkey: Left party takes centre stage with bold campaign

    Kurdish upsurge in northern Syria and his government鈥檚 scarcely concealed support for the murderous ...

  22. Patriotism is a dangerous myth

    war was over the British had Palestine, Jordan and Iraq and the French got Syria and Lebanon. ...