Iran’s Kurdish kolbars: Two sons, two deaths, two months
Jabar Dastbaz tells the story of a Kurdish family in Iran who lost two sons in two months working as kolbars, the porters shot at on Kurdistan's borders.
Three years after ‘Olive Branch’: A militarized Afrin and continued violations against its residents
Ammar Hamou and Omar Nour report on life in Afrin three years after Turkey's 2018 offensive: armed factions, seized homes, detentions and Kurds unable to return.
The mountain is no longer a friend to the Kurds. How do northern villages survive under Turkish army bombardment?
Rashid Sofi reports from Duhok's border villages, where Turkish shelling and drone strikes have burned orchards, closed schools and emptied whole communities.
The Fragility of Peace: Turkish military expansion and limited positive outcomes for displaced villages
CPT documents how Turkey's bases and roads keep expanding in Iraqi Kurdistan despite peace talks, with more than 1,190 villages affected and few able to return.
The UNESCO Site That Never Was
Durrie Bouscaren asks what the drowning of Hasankeyf by the Ilisu Dam, displacing mostly Kurdish residents, reveals about whose heritage gets protected.