The Roboski massacre is one of the starkest examples of state crime in Turkish Kurdistan and an enduring document of the repressive, racist, and fascist nature of the Turkish government. On December 28, 2011, the fascist Turkish army, using advanced air force fighter jets, bombed a group of Kurdish Kolbars […]
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Masoum Ahmadi and his cousin, Jandar Ahmadi, both from the Somay-e Bradost region of Urmia, were killed in an avalanche along the Iran–Turkey border. According to Kolbarnews, on the evening of Tuesday, December 9, 2025, two young Kolbars from Somay-e Bradost, identified as Masoum Ahmadi and Jandar Ahmadi lost their […]
Hossein Dowlatkhah, a Kolbar from Mako, was killed after being shot directly by Turkish border forces. According to Kolbarnews, on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, a Kolbar was killed by direct fire from Turkish border forces in the border region of Mako. The identity of the Kolbar has been confirmed as […]
The Workers’ and Toiling Women’s Commissions of Turkey (İEKK) have issued a statement condemning the death sentence of Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labor and women’s rights activist in Iran. According to Kolbarnews, İEKK declared in its statement: “The struggle Sharifeh Mohammadi is carrying forward in Iran for workers and oppressed women […]
According to reports from Rojava’s media, the Turkish army and its jihadist proxies resumed their failed 36-day-long attacks on Monday, January 13, aiming to capture the Tishrin Dam from the directions of Kobani and Manbij, through both ground and air assaults. These attacks were repelled by the Syrian Democratic Forces […]
Pariya Khaki, a Kurdish asylum seeker, has been detained by Turkish police in the Karaköy district of Istanbul and is facing the risk of deportation to Iran. According to Kolbarnews, on Friday, October 18, 2024, Turkish police in the Karaköy area of Istanbul detained 28-year-old asylum seeker and athlete Pariya […]
After more than six months since Bijan Moradi was detained by Turkish police, this political and labor activist is still being held in detention with uncertainty. According to Kolbarnews, quoting Mrs. Delnia Moloudzadeh, the wife of political activist Bijan Moradi, after 184 days since the arrest of this Kurdish political […]