July 26, 2016

A young Kurdish politician, Hursit Kulter, has been missing in Turkey since late May, reviving memories of arbitrary detentions and extrajudicial killings during the height of the Kurdish conflict in the 1990s.

July 26, 2016

Former US marine Levi Jonathan Shirley, known by his Kurdish comrades as Agir Servan, was killed on 14 July in offensive to recapture town of Manbij

July 26, 2016

“I am extremely concerned about the suppression of the coup,” Bolton said. “I am concerned about the direction that president Erdogan is taking.”
 

July 27, 2016

The President of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani has criticized the Iraqi foreign ministry and the US for tolerating the Iraqi government behavior in creating obstacles for the Kurds to prevent them from participating in important coalition meetings in Washington.

July 27, 2016

Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani spoke to VOA's Ali Javanmardi at his office in Irbil about plans with the U.S. to regain control of the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters, as well as about Kurdish independence and the attempted coup in Turkey.