This Democratic autonomy is a movement which aims to establish a network of grassroots assemblies in Bakur (the Kurmanji Kurdish word for the area of Kurdistan within the borders of Turkey). Corporate ...

Ertuğrul Mavioğlu and Çayan Demirel have been sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison each for the 2015 documentary "Bakur" (North) on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A lawsuit was filed ...

"Bakur/Kuzey" is a 92-minute guerilla-documentary directed by journalist Ertuğrul Mavioğlu, director Çayan Demirel and produced by Ayşe Çetinbaş. The documentary begins with Kurdistan Workers' Party ...

Voices of Bakur looks at the Kurdish movement in Bakur Northern Kurdistan It focuses on the period of 20152016 when more than a dozen Kurdish towns within the southeastern borders of Turkey declared ...

“The police and military are using every kind of violence against the Kurds. They are using tanks and heavy armoured vehicles. They have flattened houses, historical places, mosques. They use ...

The oldest political party and currently the Main Opposition party in Turkey publish a censorship report card regarding pressure put on the world of arts and culture in Turkey According to Today Zaman ...

(Beirut) - Security forces for Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have arbitrarily imposed restrictions on movement for most residents of Makhmour refugee camp for Turkish Kurds since mid-July ...