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Daily NewsDaily News : 14/10/2024#DailyNews | 📌 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's upcoming meeting with Turkish President Erdoğan will focus on migration and Turkey's request for Eurofighter jets. 📌 Recent gestures by Turkish leaders, including a handshake between MHP leader Bahçeli and DEM Party’s Bakırhan, have sparked hopes for renewed peace talks with the Kurdish movement. 📌 Allegations surface that the Kurdistan Democratic Party have set up hidden cameras in Iraqi Kurdistan to track PKK guerrillas for Turkey. 📌Sunday's planned rally in Diyarbakır, a culmination of the 'Öcalan Global Days' campaign was banned. "This is not the way to achieve peace in Turkey," pro-Kurdish DEM Party co...2024-10-1408 min
Daily NewsMedya News Daily Review 9/11/2022Listen our Daily Review: We announce the launch of MedyaNews web TV, Human Rights Watch accuses Turkey of deepening the Syrian cholera epidemic, the UN receives more calls to investigate claims that Turkey uses chemical weapons, plus more!2022-11-0912 min
Medya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 11/10/2022MedyaNews Daily Review: The brutal attack by Iranian security forces on the Kurdish city of Sanandaj in the last few days is 'a crime against humanity' says Hengaw, world-wide Free Öcalan rallies, Turkish Ambassador hints MİT assassinated Nagihan Akarsel.2022-10-1111 min
Medya News Audio ArticlesTamils and Kurds, and the end of armed resistanceIn her latest column for MedyaNews, Fréderike Geerdink compares and contrasts the situations of two stateless communities, the Tamils and the Kurds, and argues against laying down arms before a political settlement is reached.2022-08-3106 min
Medya News Audio ArticlesOn NATO’s altar - a weekly news review-The extraordinary swing of support behind NATO in western countries is based around a carefully constructed image of NATO as standing up for a people under attack, and as preventing capitulation to bully-boy tactics. It was an image that never had any substance, but now Turkey is very publicly tearing it to shreds.2022-05-2118 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review: 20/5/2022-Turkey vetoes Swedish and Finnish NATO bids-Politician: Erdoğan wants Sweden on its knees-Izmir: Protest against femicides-UK Trade Union: Freedom for Öcalan-Journalist: 'Silent genocide against Kurds'2022-05-2015 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 19/5/2022Listen our Daily Review for coverage of Turkey's demands over Sweden and Finland NATO membership centred on arms trade and Kurdish issues, in culture and art CHP MP defiantly sings in Turkish parliament in response to music bans, and columnist Geerdink reports on Kurdish film.2022-05-1914 min
Medya News PodcastPKK Ban in Germany Interview with Dr. Nick BraunsDr Brauns said that it was not a coincidence that the German police recently brutally attacked demonstrators in Berlin while the Turkish foreign minister was also in Berlin. The attack was manufactured for him.2022-05-1729 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review: 16/5/2022Listen our Daily Review for:Turkish rejection of NATO applications, police block funeral, opposition calls for conscientious objection, German police attack protestors, alleged assassins court case collapse in Belgium.2022-05-1712 min
Medya News Audio ArticlesRefugees and the hypocrisy of charity - a weekly news reviewSarah Glynn looks at the EU Conference on supporting Syria, noting the presence of Turkey, Iran and the US, all party to Syria's troubles, and the absence of AANES, the only ones trying to build a real democracy there.2022-05-1519 min
Medya News Fréderike Geerdink PodcastsFréderike Geerdink Podcast with Elena Jiménez i Botías-After the referendum about Catalonian independence in October 2017, the work of cultural organisation Omnium Cultural was expanded: suddenly they found themselves going to trails of prosecuted fellow activists, and to prisons to visit their people. Omnium international representative Elena Jiménez i Botías: “We were not familiar with that.”2022-05-1435 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 13/5/2022Medya News Daily Review:-Germany: PKK ban-Child death toll report: North East Syria-Catalonia: call to halt Spain-Turkey arms trade-USCIRF: hearing on Syria-Female journalists targeted and killed2022-05-1314 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 12/5/2022-Civilian NES casualties-Human Rights Forum in Shahba-HDP MP: War is behind refugee crisis-UK Trade Council condemns KRI invasion-Elderly Kurdish couple jailed2022-05-1214 min
Medya News PodcastKCK spokesperson Zagros Hiwa on Turkish incursions into KRIIn her latest special episodes of podcast, Frederike Geerdink interviews KCK spokesperson Zagros Hiwa about the latest incursions of the Turkish state into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.2022-05-1018 min
Medya News Audio ArticlesErdoğan’s blood-soaked electioneering - a weekly news reviewThe most alarming military developments this week were the intensified attacks on the Yazidis in Şengal (Sinjar), in northwest Iraq. These were carried out by the Iraqi army, but it is Turkey that is most insistent on destroying Yazidi autonomy, and Turkey was behind the scenes, pulling strings.2022-05-0719 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 6/5/2022Watch our Daily Review for coverage of the provisional agreement reached between Yezidi forces and the federal Iraqi military in Sinjar, Bayik on international stakes in operations in the region, the abduction of a Kurdish woman, and a film release, ‘Hêza’.2022-05-0614 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review: 5/5/2022Watch our Daily Review:➤ Yazidi demand respect for autonomy➤ Analyst: Yazidi self-defence➤ Death threat against jailed Kurd➤ Expert: Turkey's role in Sinjar➤ Columnist Geerdink on Kurdistan2022-05-0514 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review: 4/5/2022Watch our Daily Review:➤ US watchdog condemns Sinjar clashes➤ Yazidi MP highlights attacks on Yazidis➤ Turkey voter poll results➤ Turkish teachers insult Kurdish language➤ KRI theatrical play confronts femicide2022-05-0415 min
Medya News Audio ArticlesThe American elephant in the room - a weekly news reviewSarah Glynn's weekly news review: "For those challenging Turkish aggression, opportunities for high level diplomacy are distinctly limited, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t get international support, nor that that support doesn’t matter."2022-04-3017 min
Medya News Fréderike Geerdink PodcastsFréderike Geerdink & Vreer Verkerke Podcast-Vreer Verkerke advocates rights of trans people - and Kurds-Since the 1990s already, vreer verkerke, who always writes their name with lower case letters, has been waging a struggle for trans peoples’ rights. The more insight they got into power structures and oppression, the more they spoke out about other peoples’ rights as well, like Palestinians and Kurds.2022-04-3051 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review: 29/4/2022➤ Erbil Kurds protest Turkish invasion➤ NGO: 109 Killed in Turkish Invasions Since 2015➤ Anti-Armenian hostility in Belgium➤ Xelil: Iraqi Army attacks threaten Yazidis2022-04-2917 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 28/4/2022Medya News Daily Review➤ Activist Protest "Gezi Case" Decision➤ Corbyn: 'Turkey Should Not Invade Neighbours'➤ Turkish Troops to Remain In Iraq, Pro-Govt Media Says➤ Dutch Lawyer: Terror Legislation Being Misused2022-04-2814 min
Medya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 27/04/2022📌 Medya News Daily Review❶'Gezi Park' court case verdicts❷Bahçeli calls opposition 'filthy'❸Four arrested over Şenyaşar murders❹Federal Iraqi Army deploys troops to Sinjar❺Peaceful pro-Kurdish London protest attacked2022-04-2714 min
Medya News PodcastInterview with Dutch lawyer, Tamara Buruma who represented the PKK at the Court of Justice of the European UnionAs the Turkish government has, just a few weeks ago, launched yet another military assault against the guerrilla forces of the PKK, in the Zap, Metina and Avashin areas of the Qandil Mountains, politicians and political analysts are once again questioning the effectiveness of Turkey’s decades old policy of treating the Kurdish issue as simply an issue of security to be solved purely by military means. Dozens of similar military operations have been launched to great fanfare only to end in stalemate and eventual retreat with a great human cost of losses on both sides and destruction of villages an...2022-04-2736 min
Medya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review: 26/04/2022📌 Medya News Daily Review❶Turkey allegedly using chemical weapons❷Rockets hit Turkish military base in Iraq❸Turkey in contravention of intl laws on conflict❹Turkish Minister makes ´racist´ gesture❺Turkey Ban the letter ´W´2022-04-2614 min
Medya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 25/04/2022❶Clashes continue in Iraqi Kurdistan❷Turkish parliament rejects Armenian genocide bill❸Orthodox Easter celebrate in NES❹Turkish Police arrest female protesters❺UK protester: ´We must stand against betrayal´2022-04-2512 min
Medya News Audio ArticlesKurds between a rock and a hard place - a weekly news review-On Sunday night, the northern mountains of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq came under heavy bombardment from Turkish warplanes and howitzers, and Turkish helicopters ferried in soldiers as Turkey launched its anticipated attack on the PKK’s guerrilla bases. But it is not only the guerrillas in their mountain tunnels that are under attack. The Kurds and the Kurdish freedom movement are under attack across all parts of Kurdistan. And although Turkey is their biggest enemy, it is not their only enemy in what has become a complex battleground of competing powers.2022-04-2319 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 22/04/2022Medya News Daily Review❶ KRG Prime Minister Admits to Turkish Attacks❷ European Politicians Condemn Turkish Offensive❸ Kurdish Residents of Turkey Condemn Turkish Offensive ❹ Journalist: EU and NATO Benefit from Turkish Offensive2022-04-2213 min
Medya News PodcastMark Campbell & Sardar Saadi PodcastIn this Podcast we are going to be looking at the amazing developments of the higher education system and more specifically, the four universities in North and East Syria, with Sardar Saadi, a director of the Rojava Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Rojava.2022-04-2229 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 21/04/2022📌 Medya News Daily Review❶ Arab League condemns Turkey.❷ Kurds in UK begin letter writing campaign.❸ Protests in UK against Masrour Barzani.❹ MEP responds to Turkish media.2022-04-2112 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 20/04/2022#MedyaNews Daily Review:❶Iraqi presidency denounces Turkish invasion❷Pro-Kurdish opposition in Turkey condemns invasion❸HDP condemns opposition support for invasion❹Tensions between Yazidis and Iraqi army❺Damascus benefiting from Ukraine invasion2022-04-2001 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 19/04/2022❶ Kurdish umbrella organisation condemns assault❷Turkish invasion goes uncovered in western press❸Kurds and supporters in Europe condemn invasion❹UK rock star plans solidarity to Turkish jail2022-04-1910 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 18/04/2022📢 #MedyaNews Daily Review:❶Turkey´s war in Iraqi Kurdistan❷Barzani-Erdoğan Summit❸Russian Billionaire's Yacht in Turkey❹Letter-Writing Campaign for Aysel Tuğluk❺Turkish police harass delegation of MPs❻ Stop the denial on Armenian Genocide2022-04-1816 min
Medya News Fréderike Geerdink PodcastsKamna Singh is trying to weaken India’s caste system – if only for her younger sisterIn her latest podcast in the series of personal struggles, Fréderike Geerdink speaks to Kamna Singh who struggles against the discriminatory caste system in India.2022-04-1738 min
Medya News Audio ArticlesStand-off in Syria and autocracy in Ankara - a weekly news reviewSarah Glynn takes a look at this week's ongoing brutal campaigns against the Kurds in Syria, Turkey and Iraq as Turkey gears up for fresh military actions in N. Iraq and Assad targets Kurds in Aleppo.2022-04-1617 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review: 15/04/2022Medya News Daily Review❶ Anfal Genocide Commemorated in Iraqi Kurdistan❷ Yezidi Women Still Enslaved in Turkey, Activists Say❸ Court Rules in Favour of Kurd Who Suffered Racist Attack❹ UK Trade Unionists Demand Freedom For Öcalan ❺ Columnist: Barzani Family Profit From Kurdish Cause2022-04-1514 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 14/04/2022Medya News Daily Review ❶ Vigil for Victims of 2018 Shooting Passes 400 Days❷ Left-Wing Turkish Alliance Condemn Attacks on HDP❸ Turkey Moves to Shut Down Women's Rights Platform❹ Hunger Strikers in Critical Condition in Iraqi Kurdistan❺ Bread Embargo Aims to Destabilise North & East Syria2022-04-1413 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 13/04/2022#Medyanews Daily Review👉🏼 Destructive dawn raid on #HDP office👉🏼 #Turkish shelling destroys 11 homes in NES👉🏼 46 further arrest in ‘#Kobane trail’ 👉🏼 #Kurdish adaption of ´Don Quixote´ tours #Europe 👉🏼 Refugee film festival underway in Izmir2022-04-1313 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 12/04/2022Medyanews Daily Review👉🏼 Turkey behind ISIS prison break.👉🏼 Barzani´s wealth is in 11 figures.👉🏼 Turkish police officer runs over lawyer.👉🏼 We must be a real alternative, HDP says.👉🏼 SDC meets with US state in Sweden.2022-04-1212 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Reviews 11/04/2022Medyanews Daily ReviewDamascus thightens embargo on Kurdish city.Leyla Güven´s rights violated.Dead political prisoner in Turkey denied religious ritesTurkish ´villages guard´ deforesting Iraqi KurdistanKurdish musician releases new albumhttps://medyanews.net/medya-news-daily-review-11-april-2022/2022-04-1112 min
Medya News Audio ArticlesA good time for autocrats – a weekly news reviewLast Sunday, as progressives tried to come to terms with Viktor Orbán’s decisive re-election as prime minister of Hungary, Turkey’s President Erdoğan telephoned his congratulations and discussed hopes for further enhancing bilateral relations, including in the defence industries. Orbán and Erdoğan are members of a growing group of right-wing authoritarian populists, and both Erdoğan’s supporters and those hoping to see him defeated have been examining the Hungarian example for clues about what could happen in Turkey’s next election, which has to take place by June 2023. That the Hungarian opposition – like the main opposition...2022-04-0918 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily News 08/04/2022❶ Turkey has Europe's Second-Highest Incarceration Rate.❷ Former PYD Co-Chair; US, Russia not Fulfilling Duties.❸ International Legal Organisations Appeal Over Imralı.❹ Banned Dress was at the Turkish Parliament.❺ Transport Fares Increase 40% in Istanbul2022-04-0812 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 07/04/2022Father of Anna Campbell takes Turkey to ECHR.Turkey preparing to renew offensive in N. Iraq. Kurdish villager tortured.Lawyers campaign for Aysel Tuğluk.All female mines clearance group in Iraqi Kurdistan.2022-04-0712 min
Medya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 06/04/2022MEDYA NEWS DAILY REVIEWAnalyst: #UkraineRussianWar#Turkish strikes continue against #AANES#lawyers Day in #TurkeyJailed Kurdish PoliticianOnline campaign against Top #Kurdish #football teamMedya News offers news, stories, columns, researches, podcasts and videos related to the struggles of the Kurdish people in the pursuit of truth and freedom.Follow Medyanews on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedyaNewsTwitter: https://twitter.com/medyanews_Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/medyanews_/2022-04-0612 min
Medya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review 05/04/2022MEDYA NEWS DAILY REVIEWMilitary attacks against North & East Syria intensify as Turkey uses war in Ukraine as cover for drone strikes against Kurds while repressing birthday celebrations for Öcalan. Medya News offers news, stories, columns, researches, podcasts and videos related to the struggles of the Kurdish people in the pursuit of truth and freedom.Follow Medyanews on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedyaNewsTwitter: https://twitter.com/medyanews_Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/medyanews_/2022-04-0511 min
Medya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review#Medyanews Daily ReviewAnimation to celebrate Öcalan´s birthday.Öcalan denied visits. International organisations call for fair HDP trial. Amnesty condemns Turkey on human rights backslide. Turkey's economic crisis.Iraqi wall against Yazidis.2022-04-0515 min
Medya News PodcastMedya News Daily ReviewMedya News Daily Show:04/01/2022👉 Lawyers in PKK Hearing Optimistic.👉 Wall Being Constructed on Sinjar-Nes Border.👉 KDP establishes 87 military New Military Post in KRG.👉 Villas Built over Kurdish, Armenian Graves.👉 Journalist: Keep Campaigning for PKK Delisting.👉 Kurdish Woman in Kazakhstan Killed in Racist Attack.2022-04-0215 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily ReviewToday’s Daily Bulletin: 03/31/2022* PKK Delisting case at EU Court.* Turkey, KRG, Israel gas talks.* Military driver cleared of death.* Award for imprisoned Kurdish poet.* Kizildere massacre remembered.2022-03-3112 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily ReviewToday’s Daily Bulletin: 03/30/20222022-03-3011 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily ReviewToday’s Daily Bulletin: 03/29/2022👉Sick prisoners need independent diagnoses.👉Students & seasonal workers face voting obstacles.👉Message of hope from Chilean activists.👉Ahmet Türk on 'HDP Trials'.👉Youth found dead with metal pieces near military range.2022-03-3014 minMedya News PodcastMedya News Daily Review03/28/20222022-03-3014 min
Medya News Fréderike Geerdink Podcasts“Militancy is accumulating in the block”-Marisela Ramirez is part of the leadership of the Resistance and Popular Rebellion Block, a cooperation of several resistance groups against the authoritarian leadership of the Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele. She learned to struggle for freedom from her mother and gets inspired by the veterans in the movement, who once waged a guerrilla struggle in the country. She talks about her struggle with Fréderike Geerdink, host of Avaşîn Podcast.2022-03-2624 min
Medya News Fréderike Geerdink PodcastsFréderike Geerdink & Lina Zedriga PodcastAvaşîn Podcast: Fréderike Geerdink talks to Lina Zedriga, the second most important leader of the National Unity Platform, the grassroots political party in Uganda that is challenging the long-time rule of dictator Museveni.2022-03-0135 min
Medya News Podcast36th anniversary of the assassination of Swedish PM, Olof PalmeOn the 36th anniversary of the assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Plame, Mark Campbell speaks to Swedish MP Håkan Svenneling about the case and the criminalisation of the PKK at that time.2022-02-2821 min
Medya News PodcastMARK CAMPBELL & CLARE BAKER PODCAST-Clare Baker from Imrali Delegation and UK Freedom for Öcalan campaign-Medya News aims to be an authentic voice bringing you real and truthful stories from the Middle East, with a particular focus on the Kurdish Question that is often ignored, self-censored or suppressed by mainstream media platforms.2022-02-1717 min
Medya News PodcastMARK CAMPBELL & BARBARA SPINELLI PODCASTItalian human rights lawyer, Barbara Spinelli details how she believes the continued isolation of Abdullah Öcalan is a piece of a mosaic that is the political and cultural genocide of the Kurds2022-02-1625 min
Medya News PodcastMARK CAMPBELL & SIMON DUBBINS PODCASTThe International Director of one of the UK's largest trade unions, Unite, and campaign director of the "Freedom for Öcalan" campaign speaks to Mark Campbell about the establishment of the campaign and how it is growing and gaining support.2022-02-1527 min
Medya News PodcastMARK CAMPBELL & MAHMOUD PATEL PODCAST-South Africa, Mandela, Öcalan & the Imrali Delegation.-Mark Campbell interviews Mahmoud Patel, Chairperson of the Kurdish Human Rights Action Group in South Africa about solidarity, Nelson Mandela and the Imrali delegation intitiative.2022-02-1230 min
Medya News Fréderike Geerdink PodcastsFréderike Geerdink & Nadja DuhacekNadja Duhacek has been part of Serbia's Women in Black for some seventeen years. She shares how she got involved, and explains in what way the Women in Black struggle against yet again, increasing nationalism and militarism. Below are just selected excerpts, listen to the full episode of Avaşîn Podcast.2022-02-0935 min
Medya News PodcastSemra Güzel picture shows: PKK fighters are not aliensAnother HDP MP loses parliamentary immunity for exercising their freedom of expression.2022-02-0705 minMedya News Audio ArticlesSemra Güzel picture shows: PKK fighters are not aliensAnother HDP MP loses parliamentary immunity for exercising their freedom of expression.2022-02-0705 min
Medya News Audio ArticlesAmerica: the dog that didn’t bark in the nightSarah Glynn looks at how the US displays a complete absence of support for NE Syria in fighting ISIS, noting that they still remain silent about Turkey's continued attacks on the region although it is clear Turkey itself supports ISIS.2022-02-0716 minMedya News PodcastAmerica: the dog that didn’t bark in the nightSarah Glynn looks at how the US displays a complete absence of support for NE Syria in fighting ISIS, noting that they still remain silent about Turkey's continued attacks on the region although it is clear Turkey itself supports ISIS.2022-02-0716 min
Medya News PodcastMARK CAMPBELL & CLARA MOORE PODCAST-The battle of Haseke prison-Clara Moore from the Rojava Information Centre speaks to Mark Campbell about the six days of violent ISIS attacks on the prison in Haseke.2022-01-2727 min
Medya News PodcastMark Campbell and Dr. Şebnem Korur FincancıOne of Turkey's most prominent human rights defenders, Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı, President of the Turkish Medical Association, speaks to Mark Campbell for Medya News about covid, prison violations and sick prisoners.2022-01-2638 min
Medya News PodcastMARK CAMPBELL & SALEH MUSLIM PODCAST-Saleh Muslim says the fight against ISIS is an international fight.-Saleh Muslim says the fight against ISIS is an international fight and responds to questions from Medya News about the recent ISIS attacks in al-Hasakah targeting the ISIS prison holding 5,000 ISIS militants.2022-01-2230 min
Medya News Fréderike Geerdink Podcasts“Exarcheia is filled with capitalism and state power”Eva (22) struggles against gentrification in Exarcheia in Greece’s capital Athens. They are the second guest in Avaşîn Podcast, in which host Fréderike Geerdink talks to people who are waging a struggle.2022-01-2143 min
Medya News PodcastTHE FUTURE OF OUR WORLD HANGS IN THE BALANCE-The future of our world hangs in the balance-Dirk Campbell father of International volunteer, Anna Campbell (Sehid Helin) and environmental activist with Extinction Rebellion and Şoreş from the Make Rojava Green Again campaign speak to Medya News about ecology and the threat to our environment.2022-01-1053 min
Medya News PodcastWHAT NEXT FOR THE STUGGLE OF AFGHAN WOMEN-Afghanistan under the Taliban: What next for the struggle of Afghan women?-Afghan women's rights activist Lida Ahmad is joined by Remziye Mohamed - spokeswoman for Kongreya Star, the women's movement in North East Syria - to talk about the situation now for Afghan women under the Taliban.2022-01-1044 min
Medya News PodcastMARK CAMPBELL TALKS TO HOUZAN MAHMOUD ABOUT HER NEW BOOK KURDISH WOMEN'S STORIES-Mark Campbell talks to Houzan Mahmud about her new book Kurdish Women’s Stories-As we near International Women’s Day on March 8th, Mark Campbell introduces his new Podcast series with a timely interview with Kurdish Feminist, writer and anti war activist, Houzan Mahmud talking about her new book of edited stories entitled Kurdish Women’s Stories.2022-01-1028 min
Medya News PodcastZAGROS HIWA: ‘HUMAN VALUES, NATURAL RIGHTS AND LAW SHOULD NOT BE A TURNED INTO A BARGAINING CHIP’-Zagros Hiwa: ‘Human values, natural rights and law should not be a turned into a bargaining chip’-KCK's Zagros Hiwa spoke for the first time to Medya News, for all those readers who are not only interested in reading but also listening to what he had to say on key matters, uncensored.2022-01-1045 min
Medya News PodcastÖZLEM YENİAY: ‘WE PRACTICE THE ETHICAL VALUES THAT ARE PRESENT IN THE IDEAS OF DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERALISM’-Özlem Yeniay: 'We practice the ethical values that are present in the ideas of Democratic Confederalism'-Two academics from Potsdam University in Germany are teaching a winter semester of lectures and classes that include Anarchist Philosophy and the Social Ecology concepts of Murray Bookchin, and the revolutionary ideas of Abdullah Öcalan.2022-01-1026 min
Medya News PodcastTHE UK GOVERNMENT'S INDIFFERENCE TO CEDAW AND ITS VIOLATION OF ALL ITS ARTICLES-Margaret Owen: The UK government is ‘in violation of all’ of CEDAW’s articles-UK barrister Margaret Owen has condemned the UK government’s "appalling indifference" to CEDAW as well as “its violation of all its articles.” She expressed her frustration that the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on CEDAW this summer, in an unprecedented manner “collapsed” controversially and “has been a complete catastrophe and a fiasco,” but expressed hope that it will recommence at a future date.2022-01-1037 min
Medya News Podcast28TH ANNIVERSARY OF PKK BAN IN GERMANY-German lawyer urges people to join Berlin demo against the criminalization of the PKK-In this podcast, Dr Lukas Theune spoke about the issues surrounding Germany’s criminalization of the Kurds as they face an existential struggle for survival in the Middle East against a full-scale political and military onslaught from the Turkish state.2022-01-1018 min
Medya News PodcastTURKEY'S ALLEGED USE OF CHEMİCAL WEAPONS-Dr. Gisela Penteker: ‘Turkey’s alleged use of chemical weapons must be investigated’-In a timely interview for Medya News, Dr Gisela Penteker of the Nobel peace prize winning organisation, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War tells Mark Campbell that there are signs that Turkey is using chemical weapons against the Kurds in northern Iraq and that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) must go to investigate whether these allegations are true or not.2022-01-1016 min
Medya News PodcastUK'S CRIMINALISATION OF THE KURDS-Top British human rights lawyer Alastair Lyon says UK government has ‘politicised’ the law in favour of Turkey-In today’s Podcast I will be exploring the issues surrounding the UK’s criminalization of the Kurds as they face an existential struggle for survival in the Middle East against a full-scale political and military onslaught from the Turkish state.2022-01-1033 min
Medya News PodcastTHE CRIMINSLASATION OF THE KURDISH DIASPORA AND THE PKK IN GERMANY AND THE REPRESSION OF PEACE INITIATAVES-The Criminalization of the Kurdish diaspora and the PKK in Germany and the repression of peace initiatives-In criticizing Germany's criminalization of the PKK, the Kurdish diaspora and peace initiatives, Martin Dolzer asks, 'Why can’t Abdullah Öcalan be respected as a leader of a Kurdish population as Mandela was in South Africa?'2022-01-101h 08
Medya News PodcastENFORCED DISAPPEANRANCES AND ‘GENOCIDE’ OF THE BALOCH IN EAST BALOCHISTAN AND PAKISTAN?-Enforced disappearances and ‘genocide’ of the Baloch in East Balochistan and Pakistan?-In this Medya News podcast, Desmond Fernandes and Shazhavar Karimzadi discuss and detail the nature of ‘enforced disappearances’ and wider human rights violations (inclusive of ‘genocide’ and ‘crimes against humanity’) in East Balochistan and Pakistan.2022-01-101h 27
Medya News PodcastWHAT HAPPENED AT AVESTA GRAVEYARD IN AFRIN-Saleh Muslim speaks to Medya News about Kurdish Avesta graveyard desecration in Afrin-Saleh Muslim, member of the Co-Presidency Council of the Democratic Union Party, speaks from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria to Medya News about the 'Avesta graveyard' incident in Afrin.2022-01-1018 min
Medya News PodcastWHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF A US WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ?-After Afghanistan – what will be the consequences of a US withdrawal from Iraq? And what about Syria?-The Kurdish Question is forever evolving and shifting, involving the different regional countries including Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria who have all historically and brutally suppressed their own Kurdish populations. Also, other regional and international political stakeholders also vie for future influence in the region, such as Russia, the USA, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and France, to name but a few.2022-01-1039 min
Medya News PodcastTHE FIRST KURDISH WOMAN TO ENTER THE NERWEGIAN PARLIAMENT TALKS TO MEDYA NEWS-The first Kurdish woman to enter the Norwegian Parliament talks to Medya News-In this special edition of Medya New Podcasts, I was very happy to be joined by Seher Aydar from Oslo. Seher was elected yesterday to the Norwegian Parliament for the Red Party (or Rødt) and is the first woman of Kurdish origin to enter the Norwegian legislative parliament.2022-01-1012 min
Medya News PodcastMARK CAMPBELL & NADINE MAENZA-Nadine Maenza says recognizing AANES is the best way to protect religious freedoms in Middle East-On the 7th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide, Medya News speaks to the Chair of USCIRF about her work in North East Syria and US policy towards the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria.2022-01-1021 min
Medya News PodcastTHE UK GOVERNMENT'S COMPLICITY IN TURKEY'S WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY-Margaret Owen: The UK government’s promotion of arms sales to Turkey makes it ‘complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity’-At a time when Turkey is “conducting a genocide against the Kurds,” UK barrister Margaret Owen says the UK government’s silence is "shameful: we should be leading the world in stopping all arms manufacture and arms trade to countries like this.”2022-01-1037 min
Medya News PodcastTHE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ON AFRIN - DESMOND FERNANDES & MARGARET OWEN-Desmond Fernandes and Margaret Owen discuss Carlotta Gall’s controversial New York Times article on Afrin-Desmond Fernandes and Margaret Owen discuss Carlotta Gall’s controversial New York Times article on Afrin.In this podcast, Desmond Fernandes and Margaret Owen critically analyze the recent and controversial New York Times front page article by Carlotta Gall that focused on the human rights situation in Afrin, a city in northwest Syria.2022-01-1045 min
Medya News PodcastMARK CAMPBELL &NIKOLAJ VILLUMSEN-Turkey’s chemical weapons attacks ‘an issue for the whole world, not just Kurds,’ says Nikolaj Villumsen-In response to numerous reports alleging use of chemical weapons by Turkey's armed forces during military operations in Iraqi Kurdistan, a Danish MEP has supported the call for an independent investigation by the OPCW.2022-01-1017 min
Medya News PodcastCATALONIA RECOGNITION OF AANES-Saleh Muslim on Catalonia’s recognition of AANES: ‘The Kurds have friends other than the mountains’-PYD's Muslim shares his happiness over the first-ever political recognition of AANES, saying that Catalans showed that it is not "only the mountains" the Kurds have as friends. Kurdish journalist Amina also shared her enthusiasm over the historic decision: "This is a victory!"2022-01-1028 min
Medya News PodcastDESMOND FERNANDES & LIOYD RUSSELL-MOYLE-The UK APPG on Kurdistan in Syria and Turkey’s report on ‘Kurdish Political Representation and Equality in Turkey’-Lloyd Russell-Moyle, MP, Chair of the UK APPG on Kurdistan in Syria and Turkey says that “there is a particular problem” concerning “how Turkey is treating political representation, is treating cultural representation and then particularly, women and journalists of a Kurdish background.”2022-01-0934 min
Medya News PodcastEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MURAT KARAYILAN PART II-Exclusive Medya News Interview with PKK’s Top Commander Murat Karayılan – Part 1-In response to questions we sent, Karayılan spoke for the first time to Medya News. He shared information about the ongoing deadly battle they have been engaged in with Turkish armed forces for six months and also expressed his political views in a wider context.2022-01-0928 min
Medya News PodcastDESMOND FERNANDES & Dr. MOHAMMED HOSSEINBOR-Taliban control of Afghanistan: Geopolitical implications and consequences for the Baloch and women-Dr. Mohammed Hosseinbor says the Taliban’s take-over of Afghanistan will have significant repercussions on women and Baloch in the country and may also result in a potential clash with the clerical authorities in Iran.2022-01-091h 20
Medya News PodcastMARK CAMPBELL & JAN FERMON-The criminalisation of the PKK can be successfully challenged says Belgium lawyer-Today’s Medya News podcast assesses the significance of the landmark Belgium court case that concluded, at the beginning of last year – after a long and protracted fight in the Belgium courts -that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) could not be prosecuted as a ‘terrorist’ organisation because it was a party to an armed conflict with the Turkish state.2022-01-0943 min
Medya News PodcastSTUDENT PROTESTS IN IRAQI KURDISTAN-Student activist from Iraqi Kurdistan, ‘The police use stun guns on male students genitals and fire tear gas at us.’-Protests by university students that began on 21 November in Iraqi Kurdistan have spread to many cities. Tens of thousands of students from different universities have taken to the streets to attend peaceful demonstrations all over the region.2022-01-0926 minMedya News PodcastEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MURAT KARAYILAN-Exclusive Medya News Interview with PKK’s Top Commander Murat Karayılan – Part 1-In response to questions we sent, Karayılan spoke for the first time to Medya News. He shared information about the ongoing deadly battle they have been engaged in with Turkish armed forces for six months and also expressed his political views in a wider context.2022-01-0922 min
Medya News PodcastMARK CAMPBELL & FRÈDERÎKE GEERDÎNK-Mark Campbell Interviews Frederike Geerdink about her new book-Mark Campbell interviews Frederike Geerdink about her new book This Fire Never Dies, a personal account of her one year spent with Kurdish gerilla fighters in Kurdistan.2022-01-0934 min
Medya News PodcastDESMOND FERNANDES & HİŞYAR ÖZSOYTHE IMPLICATIONSOF THE PASSING OF THE 'WAR MOTION' IN TURKEY2022-01-0938 min
Medya News Fréderike Geerdink PodcastsFréderike Geerdink & Mike Africa Jr.Listen to the whole conversation with Mike Africa Jr. about his campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal in the first episode of Avaşîn Podcast, hosted by journalist and author Fréderike Geerdink.2022-01-0929 min
Medya News PodcastIRANIAN STATE TARGETING OF BALOCH AND KURDISH POLITICAL PRISONERS AND BORDER TRADERS-Iranian state targeting of Baloch and Kurdish political prisoners and border traders-In this podcast, Desmond Fernandes and Faiz Baluch critically analyse the Iranian state’s target killings of Baloch ‘sookhtbar’ and Kurdish ‘kolbar’ (also referred to as ‘kolber’ or ‘kolbaran’) border traders and the execution of Baloch and Kurdish political prisoners.2022-01-0946 min
Medya News PodcastTHE CONDITION IN IRAQI KURDISTAN DRIVING REFUGEES/MIGRANT/ASYLUM SEEKERS TO THE BELARUS-POLAND BORDER-The Condıtıons ın Iraqı Kurdistan Driving Refugees/Migrants/Asylum Seekers To The Belarus-Poland Border-Life in Iraqi Kurdistan ‘is a gamble’ where ‘authoritarianism’ reigns, assert Kamal Chomani and Dastan Jasim-As our TV screens and news bulletins have been filled in the past weeks with harrowing images of desperate asylum seekers, migrants and refugees trapped in sub-zero conditions along the Belarus-Poland border, KRG representatives have accused the Iraqi Kurdistan people based there of ‘lying’ about their reasons for arriving there. However, Kamal Chomani and Dastan Jasim confirm the basis of many of their concerns.2022-01-0953 min
Medya News PodcastJustice for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla. French lawyer, Antoine Comte speaks to Medya News.Monsieur Antoine Comte, the French lawyer leading the fight for justice for the victims of the Paris killings, speaks to Medya News on the ninth anniversary of the brutal killings in Paris, 9 January 2013.2022-01-0935 min
Medya News PodcastLondon Kurdish Film Festival coming soon and going global for first time, say organisers-London Kurdish Film Festival coming soon and going global for first time, say organizers-The 12th London Kurdish Film Festival (LKFF) will be presenting the first-ever Global Kurdish Film Festival – Online Edition, taking place from 16 – 27 April 2021. This year’s programme of films will be showcased online, with worldwide accessibility, completely free of charge.2022-01-0938 min
Medya News PodcastMark Campbell talks to Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of The Daughters of Kobani-Mark Campbell talks to Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of The Daughters of Kobani-Mark Campbell interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of The Daughters of Kobani, arguably the most important book printed in English on the Kurdish issue since Susan Meiselas’s Kurdistan in the Shadow of History.2021-12-2136 min