How did Turkey’s anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown escalate into nationwide police raids? Trace the 10-year shift from banned Pride marches to legal repression.

Israel’s political landscape can look like a maze of parties, alliances and familiar faces. On October 27, 2026, voters will choose a new 120-member Knesset, Israel’s parliament. To win seats, a…

We sat down with novelist Burhan Sönmez not long after the dual release of Neynika Sor and Kırmızı Ayna – a rare literary moment where an author simultaneously publishes a novel in his mother tongue…

In 1976, famous Kurdish singer Şivan Perwer released an album containing songs about Kurdish liberation, socialism, and revolution. Among them was a tribute to a man whose name might surprise many…

A few meters from the entrance to the Grand Mosque in Slemani, in Iraq’s Kurdistan, a 70-year-old blind man sat cross-legged on a bench. He introduced himself as Abdullah and mentioned he was a…

Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia have agreed to move ahead with implementing their Mecca Joint Defense Agreement as Houthi attacks on the latter raise questions about how the three countries will…

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— About The Amargi: The Amargi is a grassroots-funded online media outlet established by a group of journalists, activists, and academics based in Europe. We are independent from any commercial and…

— About The Amargi: The Amargi is a grassroots-funded online media outlet established by a group of journalists, activists, and academics based in Europe. We are independent from any commercial and…

Residents of Hasakah’s Arab-majority Ghuwayran neighborhood staged demonstrations demanding Syrian state control, destroying Kurdish symbols and photos of fallen fighters, as security forces…

Why are Ankara and Ocalan trying to solve a century-old Kurdish question without a third party? Turkey’s new “terror-free” process contains a significant gap: there is nobody to guarantee the peace…

As Damascus and US energy firms take control of Northeast Syria’s oil fields under a 25-year deal, workers face uncertainty and residents confront fuel price increases up to six times higher than…

The U.S. State Department announced Friday it is designating the International Criminal Court under Executive Order 14203, escalating its campaign against the court beyond sanctions already imposed…

On the eleventh anniversary of Turkey’s deadliest terrorist attack, a survivor says the state’s role in enabling the 2015 ISIS bombing that killed 104 peace rally attendees remains unacknowledged.

Kurdish students, teachers, and parents have been protesting on the streets of Rojava in northern Syria for the past month. Their protests are directed at the Ministry of Education’s decision to…

Washington, D.C. — UN Women announced this week that nearly 50,000 women and girls in Gaza have been killed or severely injured since the war began in October 2023, a toll it estimates amounts to one…

Six decades after the 1962 census stripped thousands of Syrian Kurds of citizenship, a new government decree promises restoration but bureaucratic barriers leave the injustice largely unresolved.

The sharp teeth of Turkey’s saws are bearing down once again on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In the mountainous Badinan region, natural forests are being systematically felled and cleared. While…

Six decades after the 1962 census stripped thousands of Syrian Kurds of citizenship, a new government decree promises restoration but bureaucratic barriers leave the injustice largely unresolved.