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Former communist MP Abu Karwan signs the petition
COMMUNISTS, trade unionists and politicians across Iraqi Kurdistan joined forces on Saturday to demand the removal of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) from international terror lists.
“This campaign is a national and humanitarian duty,” politician and organiser Muhammed Amin Penjweni said, urging people to join the growing international calls to delist the PKK.
He said the Kurdish resistance group’s inclusion on an EU terror list was a political decision made to appease Turkey after it had “used all its military capabilities to destroy the PKK, but it could not reach its goal.”
The World Cup, Olympics and rise of sports betting reveal how the playing field is increasingly shaped by power and inequality, writes DENNIS BROE
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)