A Torture-Free Turkey? – Part II
A Turkish security officer beats a protester as riot police use water cannons to disperse people protesting the detentions of...
A Torture-Free Turkey? – Part I
Turkish police arrest Kurdish protester in Diyarbakir (Amed) city in Turkish Kurdistan (Bakur Kurdistan), August 21, 2019. Photo: AFP A...
A Western Gentleman Travels Through North Kurdistan: Hospitality and Checkpoints
The central courtyard of Hasan Pasha Inn (Hasan Paşa Hanı), a historic 16th-century Ottoman caravanserai located in Amed (Diyarbakir), Turkish...
Niqab makes a comeback in Syrian universities and beyond
Female students wearing Islamic niqabs at Hama University in Syria on June 17, 2026. Photo credit: Video X/via iKurd.net The...
Ali al-Zaidi from Da’wa to peak of Iraq’s rentier system
“It’s a rich man’s world.“ U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi in the Oval Office...
Debunked PKK Leader Ocalan Will Never Be Set Free
Thousands of people gathered in the main Kurdish city of Amed (Diyarbakir) in Turkish Kurdistan, the Kurdish region in southeastern...
The Spirit of Ancient Sumer Revives
The partial reconstruction of the ziggurat of Ur undertaken in the 1980s by Saddam Hussein after a two-thousand five hundred...
Hüseyin Baybaşın moved to secure Dutch prison at Turkey’s bidding instead of release
Huseyin Baybasin, Rotterdam prison, 2020s. Photo: Baybasin's X. Sheri Laizer | Exclusive to iKurd.net “Either he comes to Turkey, or...
A Century Ago, Lynette Soane, Hailed the Kurds as “my friends” Rather Than “Kurdish Brigands”
Kurds in the mountains of Southern Kurdistan, 1919. Photo: iKurd.net/Sheri Laizer/Lynette Soane's album 1919. In 1919, Lynette Soane was said...
Iran attacked afresh despite negotiations
A plume of smoke rises following a U.S. and Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, on March 1, 2026. Photo: AP...
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