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• The challenge of democratizing national liberation struggles without creating capitalist monopolies 

  “It is beneficial for us to learn from the Kurdish movement and the ways in which thoroughgoing grassroots organizing may significantly enrich our understanding of the national question toward national liberation.”
• Zelal Zagros, fighting for the freedom of women and the Kurdish people  

  Firyal Silêman Xalid fought for the freedom of women and the Kurdish people for over three decades under the name Zelal Zagros. Her murder in Kirkuk will not stop the Kurdish women's liberation struggle.
• Bayik: The AKP-MHP government insists on the politics of genocide 

  Bayik said that the AKP-MHP government insists on the politics of genocide.
• Turkey is waging a war against the Kurds unilaterally, threatening everyone 

  How are Turkey's actions in North and East Syria different from Gaza? Those who blame Israel for Gaza and take the problem to international institutions are silent when it comes to the Kurds.
• Bayik: Turkey must give up the politics of genocide, denial, annihilation, isolation 

  Bayik said that Öcalan "is a free person despite being imprisoned and tortured in Imrali. He achieved this with his ideas, philosophy and through his struggle."
• Armenian intellectual and Agos editor Hrant Dink was killed in Istanbul 17 years ago 

  Agos editor Hrant Dink was killed in Istanbul 17 years ago.
• Asrın Law Office releases 2023 Annual Assessment Report on Violations and Conditions in Imrali 

  “There has been no change in practice throughout 2023, which has been another year of absolute incommunicado detention, in which we have not been able to receive a single sign of life from our clients,” said the Asrın Law Office.
• Levidow: The path to a peaceful solution is blocked by isolation 

  Dr. Les Levidow said that solving the Kurdish question is not possible without the freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Muslim: Kurds fought for a place in the Middle East - Part Two 

  The Kurds have fought for a place in the Middle East. PYD leader Salih Muslim said that world powers are still undecided about how to respond to the coexistence project being practiced in Northern and Eastern Syria.
• Muslim: Turkey will completely collapse if it does not solve the Kurdish question 

  PYD co-chair Salih Muslim said that the Autonomous Administration cannot be ignored and that the Turkish state will collapse completely if it cannot solve the Kurdish question.
• Çewlîk: 'Freedom for Öcalan and a political solution to the Kurdish question' campaign will succeed 

  Zozan Çewlîk, commander of the Free Women’s Units (YJA Star), assessed the war in Kurdistan and the resistance to it from the perspective of women's guerrillas.
• Fascism's dream of a superior race lasts until the guerrilla strikes 

  Those who have no capital and purpose other than enmity against the Kurdish people are in a pathetic state. The Kurdishness, which could not be finished for 100 years, will not be finished after that either.
• Democratic modernity paves the way for democratic socialism 

  Mexican anthropologist Gilberto López y Rivas, wrote about democratic modernity paving the way for democratic socialism.
• Campaign to send postcards to Abdullah Öcalan from Europe kicks off 

  A campaign to send postcards to Imrali from Europe was launched as part of the international initiative to demand freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and a political solution to the Kurdish question.
• Sakine, Fidan, Leyla: Until justice is served 

  Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez were killed in Paris 11 years ago.
• Turkish army not making a single step forward in guerrilla areas 

  While Erdoğan spoke of "the most comprehensive war in the history of the Republic" at the start of the invasion in the Medya Defense Zones and Bahçeli already saw the Turkish flag flying in Qandil, the Turkish army is not even one step further.
• Jailed politician Ölbeci: Peace is possible 

  Jailed politician Zeynep Ölbeci, who is on hunger strike, said, "Lifting the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan is a must for peace," and called on the prisoners to increase their struggle to get their legitimate demands accepted.
• Replacing the operation command center cannot save the occupiers 

  The Turkish army has probably realized better after these last blows that their technical equipment cannot save them. If they don't realize it, the guerrillas will make them do so with effective blows. There is no doubt about that.
• Free Women's Movement: AKP-MHP government protects war criminals! 

  The Free Women's Movement said in a statement that the AKP-MHP government protects war criminals.
• Kalkan underlines the important role of Abdullah Öcalan for a genuine peace/democratization process 

  Duran Kalkan analyzed the basis for resolving the Kurdish question and the associated democratization of the Middle East.
• Kalkan: The women’s struggle went global in 2023 - PART FIVE 

  Duran Kalkan said that the “Jin Jiyan, Azadi” revolution spread from Rojhilat and Iran from mid-September 2022.
• Kalkan: Conflict arising because of internal contradictions within capitalist modernity - PART FOUR 

  Duran Kalkan analyzed the internal contradictions within capitalist modernity.
• The Turkish state's strategy in guerrilla areas backfires 

  The Turkish state's invasion of the Medya Defence Zones, labelled as a strategy to "destroy terror at its source", is increasingly backfiring. The Turkish army itself has been encircled and is suffering heavy losses.
• Kalkan: Turkey is hostile to every Kurd - PART THREE 

  Duran Kalkan said that "the Turkish army is hostile to every Kurd, hostile to every patriotic Kurd."
• Kalkan: 2023 was the year of the guerrillas - PART TWO 

  Duran Kalkan said that 2023 "was the year of the guerrillas."