Kurdish community in Iraq says suicides on the rise
The Kurdish community in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region says that the numbers of suicides are increasing, particularly in refugee camps full of Kurdish Yazidis.
The Kurdish community in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region says that the numbers of suicides are increasing, particularly in refugee camps full of Kurdish Yazidis.
"Temple of Refuge" illustrates Iraqi-Kurdish migrant Sartep Namiq's journey to Berlin. It was commissioned with the help of a unique organization.
According to the latest UN figures, Turkey's offensive against Kurdish militia in northern Syria has already resulted in at least 176,000 people being displaced, about half of whom are children. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in the past week alone, more than 60,000 people in the region had fled their homes.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has presented a plan to transfer at least two million refugees to an area in northeast Syria, saying that Turkey doesn't intend to host refugees forever.
Zozan Yasar is a Kurdish journalist from Turkey. Denied access to education, Zozan taught herself to read and write and went to university to get a degree before working as a journalist. As a Kurd, she struggled to officially register her Kurdish name with the government in Turkey. After arrests and harassment, she was eventually forced to seek asylum in the UK.
A football team set up as a social project 13 years ago will play this year in Sweden's top league, Allsvenskan. The club Dalkurd FF was created by nine Kurdish migrants and has grown to represent the hope of millions of Kurds worldwide to claim their identity through sports.