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• Who is the runaway soldier killed by the Turkish army and what does his murder tell? 

  A soldier was killed by the Turkish army while trying to escape from his troop less than a week ago during a clash in Zap region. His name is Sezai Güngör, a Kurd from Van. He was a contracted soldier since 2015. Bottom line: Defeat and brutality.
• Darkness was defeated in Kobanê 

  Cemil Mazlum, one of the SDF Commanders of the Euphrates Region, said that there was a war of survival in Kobanê 7 years ago. "Either darkness would win or light. It was light that prevailed in Kobanê."
• "World Mayors Foundation" awards jury prize to co-mayor of Raqqa, Leyla Mustafa 

  The co-mayor of the civil council of Raqqa, Leyla Mustafa, was awarded the jury prize in this year's “World Mayors”. The award recognizes the commitment to rebuilding the city after the Islamic State occupation.
• European Court of Human Rights has yet to rule on the 'Imrali case' 10 years after it was filed 

  While rulings at the European Court of Human Rights usually are released between two and seven years, the file on the isolation in Imrali has been with the court for ten years.
• Ecological Revolution: Kurdistan, UK, and the World – An Interview with Dr Stephen Hunt 

  Dr Stephen Hunt of the University of the West of England spoke about the book he edited entitled Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities.
• Muslim: Turkey plans to de-Kurdify Kurdistan 

  PYD politician Salih Muslim explains in the second part of the ANF interview that the Turkish state wants to expel the Kurdish population from Kurdistan and destroy the Kurdish freedom movement everywhere.
• Two decades of the global ‘war on terror’  

  Since 2001, the so-called global War on Terror has been a perpetual, boundless terror campaign against people resisting oppressive regimes by whatever means. More broadly, it has demonised and persecuted entire groups as suspect communities.
• Democratic Ulster Unionist's Brexit blackmail threatens North of Ireland agreement 

  DUP leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, said his ministers will resign if changes to the Brexit deal on trade across the Irish sea are not delivered within weeks.
• Salih Muslim: KDP itself will suffer the most serious harm if it does not act wisely 

  Muslim said that the troops deployed to guerrilla areas are not peshmerga. “They are forces under the command of certain groups and a very dangerous plan is being introduced. If it does not act wisely, the KDP itself will suffer the most serious harm."
• Dr. Gianni Tognoni: The problem today is the impunity of crimes against humanity 

  Interview with Dr. Gianni Tognoni, Secretary General of the Rome-based Permanent Peoples Tribunal.
• Erdogan prepares to annex Afrin 

  The Turkish state has declared war on Kurdistan from Shengal to Maxmur. The Bahceli-Erdogan coalition wishes to complete what ISIS was unable to do against the Yazidis. In this regard, the Kurdish people should raise hell with a spirit of mobilization.
• Lloyd Russell-Moyle speaks about report released by APPG 

  Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Labour MP and the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Syria and Turkey spoke about the APPG report called “Kurdish Political Representation and Equality in Turkey”.
• The Art of Politics, and the Politics of Art - An Interview with Jonathan Chadwick 

  The Art of Politics, and the Politics of Art – An Interview with Jonathan Chadwick
• Karasu: Turkey’s attacks aim to enforce the Shengal Agreement 

  The governments of Iraq and South Kurdistan remain silent when Turkey bombs the Yazidi settlement area of Shengal. According to Mustafa Karasu of the KCK, the Turkish airstrikes are used as an instrument of blackmail.
• UK Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle talks about Turkey’s war on Kurds and Freedom for Öcalan 

  UK Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle talks about Turkey’s war on Kurds and Freedom for Öcalan.
• In the footsteps of the Italian Partisans: Solidarity with Kurdistan 

  Internationalist antifascists send greetings from the mountains of Italy to the guerrillas in the mountains of Kurdistan from an initiative in the footsteps of the partisans and for resistance to fascism.
• Turkey and ENKS devise a scheme to cover up the invasion in Afrin 

  In the last two months, invaders have increased kidnapping of residents and ransom demands in Afrin. Some of those kidnapped by the invaders are Kurds who fled to Aleppo and Shehba during the occupation, only to return to Afrin with ENKS propaganda.
• The Marikana Massacre: Neo-colonialism, Extractivism, Resistance. Interview with Andy Higginbottom 

  The Marikana Massacre: Neo-colonialism, Extractivism, Resistance. An interview with Dr Andy Higginbottom.
• YPG Spokesman: Turkey is attacking SDF with the help of NATO 

  YPG Spokesman Nuri Mahmoud evaluated the Turkish attacks against Southern Kurdistan, North and East Syria, saying, “The AKP-MHP government has adopted a jihadist strategy and is blackmailing European countries.”
• Guerrilla Seydo, one of the martyrs of the Garê resistance 

  HPG guerrilla Seydo Refik fell a martyr in the Garê resistance on 10 February 2021. He had said: “I want to be ready at every moment of the revolution. Sacrifice requires it.”
• Karayılan: The Turkish army is bogged down 

  Despite NATO support, the Turkish army is at an impasse in its invasion of southern Kurdistan. Murat Karayılan says the state will have no choice but to admit defeat: "The guerrillas are successful in all areas."
• YPJ Commander: The will of women will never give up in the face of any force 

  "Our female fighters proved that where there are women, there is justice and women fight against hegemonic mentality, and the struggle against five thousand years of male domination never ceases,” said YPJ Commander Amara Şervan.
• 'The Turkish government is trodding on democracy’, says Labour MP Kate Osamor 

  'The Turkish government is trodding on democracy’ said Labour MP Kate Osamor.
• The Liberation of Kabul 

  "Who will liberate Afghanistan? After 20 years of NATO occupation, the country is likely to be back under Taliban rule for the time being," writes Firaz Amargi.
• Documentary on Mathare Social Justice Centre in Nairobi 

  The Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) was founded in 2015 in Mathare, the oldest slum in Nairobi, Kenya.