The French senate passed a bill criminalizing the public rejection of Armenian Genocide. While the bill is in the hands of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy for final ratification, Turkey is using its business and political relation as lobby to influence the final decision ...

EUROPOL and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) cannot provide own independent evidences or juridical facts for involvement of Kurdish organisations in drug trafficking, as Turkey claims in order to criminalise the Kurds ...

EU Foreign Ministers imposed embargo on Iranian oil imports to Europe. The Iranian regime threatened EU and USA “to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz and to make the world unsafe for Americans in the shortest possible time”. ...

Denmark’s Gen. Bartels took position as new Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. NATO’s operations in Afghanistan and in Kosovo, Syria, Iran and Turkey were some of the topics on his first press conference. Kurdish Roboski massacre was also questioned in NATO. ...

The Armenian journalist and editor-in-chief of the Armenian weekly Agos in Turkey, Hrant Dink killed by a Turkish ultranationalist five years ago, has been commemorated all over the world. Last Tuesday, 19 key suspects who help the killer, were released by Turkish court. ...

The Austrian socialist Hannes Swoboda elected as new Group Leader of the second biggest political group, Socialists and Democrats, in the European Parliament. The new Leader of the Socialist Group Hannes Swoboda will lead 190 socialist MEPs in the next two and a half years until ...

German Social-Democrat Martin Schulz, former leader of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament (EP), has been elected today as President of the EP. Schulz's first message was: 'This Chamber is the place where the interests of the people are defended'. ...

The European Kurdish diaspora is planning a 400 KM long march this hard winter from Geneve in Swiss to Strasbourg in France. Hundred of Kurdish politicians, artists and activists are expected to join the peaceful long march for a political solution in the Kurdish tragedy. ...

Armenian, Greek and Kurdish communities in USA ask Obama Administration to investigate the use of US arms in the killing of 34 Kurdish youths in Turkey last month. Earlier, Turkish Army has been also accused for use of chemical weapons. ...

Ria Oomen-Ruijten, European Parliament’s rapporteur on Turkey, accused Kurdish organisations for involvement in trafficking of women, drugs and weapons. Now she is asked to proof these accusations as a respect for the European institutions. ...

Carol Prunhuber’s book “The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd: Dreaming Kurdistan” is an in-depth biography of the Kurdish leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, killed by Iranian agents in Vienna in 1989. The book, published in four languages, received several international aw ...