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• Kurdish Culture Festival: We will make this struggle successful 

  Speaking at the Kurdish Culture Festival in Frankfurt, DBP Co-Chair and DEM Party MP Keskin Bayındır said, “We are ready, we will make this struggle successful under the leadership of our youth and women.”
• International Kurdish Culture Festival starts in Frankfurt 

  The 32nd International Kurdish Culture Festival, the biggest cultural event of Kurds in Europe, started in Frankfurt Rebstock Park with the slogan ‘Let's break the isolation and occupation, let's liberate Leader Apo’.
• 32nd International Kurdish Cultural Festival to take place today in Frankfurt 

  Today in Frankfurt Kurds celebrate their culture.
• 44 people complete their Kurdish course at the Ayşe Şan Language and Culture Centre in Silopi 

  44 people have successfully completed their Kurdish course at the Ayşe Şan Language and Culture Center in Silopi. This is not a given, as education in the mother tongue is repeatedly targeted by state repression.
• Art exhibition opens in Hesekê 

  The Kobanê Culture and Art Movement opened an exhibition titled 'Colorful Storms' at the Xabûr Culture and Art Center in Hesekê.
• "The Kurdish people should not remain silent against Turkish attacks" 

  Artist Xelil Xemgin made a statement on behalf of the Kurdish Artists Initiative, and said that a treacherous front was put into action by the KDP to destroy the Kurdish people.
• Exhibition by artist Ali Zülfikar to open in Berlin on 10 October 

  An exhibition by artist Ali Zülfikar focusing on the social and ecological effects of war will open in Berlin from 10 October to 14 November.
• A video in memory of Jina Amini  

  Jina Amini has become a symbol of the resistance of Kurdish women. A music clip by Beser Şahin and Memo Gül released on the second anniversary of her death pays tribute to this struggle.
• Zarok Ma meets with children in Berlin 

  Zarok Ma offered Kurdish children the opportunity to get to know their cultural heritage and to connect with music.
• TEV ÇAND prepares special performances for International Kurdish Culture Festival in Frankfurt 

  Preparations are underway for the 32nd Kurdish Culture Festival to be held in Frankfurt on 21 September.
• Hunergeha Welat releases video for the song “Xanimê” 

  Hunergeha Welat released a video for the song “Xanimê”.
• Iranian regime detains Kurdish director 

  Iranian regime forces detained a Kurdish director named Reza Elayî and his aftermath is unknown.
• First Culture and Poetry Festival kicks off in Qamishlo 

  The Culture and Poetry Festival organized by the Cizîr Canton Intellectuals Union began with the slogan “Poetry is the Star of Literature”.
• Amed Metropolitan Municipality to promote free cinema screenings and theatre plays in September 

  The Amed Metropolitan Municipality will organize free cinema, theater screenings, Dengbej and other concerts throughout September.
• KCDK-E calls for participation in 32nd International Kurdish Cultural Festival in Frankfurt 

  The European umbrella organization of the Kurdish diaspora, KCDK-E, called on Kurds across Europe to go to Frankfurt am Main on 21 September for the 32nd international Kurdish Cultural Festival.
• 7th Tabqa Literature Gathering enters final day 

  The 7th Tabqa Literature Gathering, held with the slogan "Literature is history and life", will end today.
• KON-MED calls for participation in the International Kurdish Culture Festival 

  KON-MED called for participation in the 32nd International Kurdish Culture Festival on 21 September and announced the departure times and places of the buses.
• ‘With the festival, we wanted to show the colour and identity of women’ 

  Mizgîn Çolaq, member of the Organising Committee of the Martyr Berçem Festival and member of the Hîlala Zêrîn Movement Coordination, said: “We wanted to show the colour and identity of women in a wider way with the festival we organised in Kobanê.”
• Nearly 300 film directors sued in Iran in two years 

  The spokesperson of the House of Cinema in Iran announced that nearly 300 film directors have been sued and their work rights have been cancelled since the ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ uprising that started in September 2022.
• New term of Kurdish language courses starts in Switzerland 

  Kurdish language courses started in Winterthur city in Zurich Canton of Switzerland.
• 7th Gathering of writers kicks off tomorrow in Tabqa 

  The Tabqa Culture and Arts Council is preparing to organize the 7th Gathering of writers tomorrow, 10 September. The meeting will last 3 days, and will be attended by more than 40 writers from across the region.
• KDP doesn't allow artists Emel Mathlouthi and Şadi Xelami to cross into Northern and Eastern Syria 

  The KDP did not allow artists Emel Mathlouthi and Şadi Xelami to cross into Northern and Eastern Syria to attend the festival in Kobanê.
• Women's Culture and Art Festival in Kobanê 

  The second Martyr Berçem Women's Culture and Art Festival organised by the women's cultural movement Hîlala Zêrîn is taking place in Kobanê. The organisers see the festival as a powerful response to the attacks by dictatorial regimes against cultures.
• Ban and confiscation decision on book by Gültan Kışanak 

  The Izmir 4th Criminal Court of Peace has issued a ban and seizure order on the book "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics" written by politician Gültan Kışanak.
• Diyarbakır No. 5 Prison should be turned into a Memory Museum, says civil society organization 

  Haluk Yıldızhan from the Memory Museum Initiative Group requested that Diyarbakır No. 5 Prison be turned into a Memory Museum. He said that authorities should collaborate with those who lived through that period for the design of the museum.