-Desmond Fernandes and Margaret Owen discuss Carlotta Gall’s controversial New York Times article on Afrin
-Desmond Fernandes and Margaret Owen discuss Carlotta Gall’s controversial New York Times article on Afrin.

In this podcast, Desmond Fernandes and Margaret Owen critically analyze the recent and controversial New York Times front page article by Carlotta Gall that focused on the human rights situation in Afrin, a city in northwest Syria.

-Turkey’s chemical weapons attacks ‘an issue for the whole world, not just Kurds,’ says Nikolaj Villumsen
-In response to numerous reports alleging use of chemical weapons by Turkey's armed forces during military operations in Iraqi Kurdistan, a Danish MEP has supported the call for an independent investigation by the OPCW.

-Saleh Muslim on Catalonia’s recognition of AANES: ‘The Kurds have friends other than the mountains’
-PYD's Muslim shares his happiness over the first-ever political recognition of AANES, saying that Catalans showed that it is not "only the mountains" the Kurds have as friends. Kurdish journalist Amina also shared her enthusiasm over the historic decision: "This is a victory!"

-The UK APPG on Kurdistan in Syria and Turkey’s report on ‘Kurdish Political Representation and Equality in Turkey’
-Lloyd Russell-Moyle, MP, Chair of the UK APPG on Kurdistan in Syria and Turkey says that “there is a particular problem” concerning “how Turkey is treating political representation, is treating cultural representation and then particularly, women and journalists of a Kurdish background.”

-Exclusive Medya News Interview with PKK’s Top Commander Murat Karayılan – Part 1
-In response to questions we sent, Karayılan spoke for the first time to Medya News. He shared information about the ongoing deadly battle they have been engaged in with Turkish armed forces for six months and also expressed his political views in a wider context.

-Taliban control of Afghanistan: Geopolitical implications and consequences for the Baloch and women
-Dr. Mohammed Hosseinbor says the Taliban’s take-over of Afghanistan will have significant repercussions on women and Baloch in the country and may also result in a potential clash with the clerical authorities in Iran.

-The criminalisation of the PKK can be successfully challenged says Belgium lawyer
-Today’s Medya News podcast assesses the significance of the landmark Belgium court case that concluded, at the beginning of last year – after a long and protracted fight in the Belgium courts -that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) could not be prosecuted as a ‘terrorist’ organisation because it was a party to an armed conflict with the Turkish state.

-Student activist from Iraqi Kurdistan, ‘The police use stun guns on male students genitals and fire tear gas at us.’
-Protests by university students that began on 21 November in Iraqi Kurdistan have spread to many cities. Tens of thousands of students from different universities have taken to the streets to attend peaceful demonstrations all over the region.

-Exclusive Medya News Interview with PKK’s Top Commander Murat Karayılan – Part 1
-In response to questions we sent, Karayılan spoke for the first time to Medya News. He shared information about the ongoing deadly battle they have been engaged in with Turkish armed forces for six months and also expressed his political views in a wider context.

-Mark Campbell Interviews Frederike Geerdink about her new book
-Mark Campbell interviews Frederike Geerdink about her new book This Fire Never Dies, a personal account of her one year spent with Kurdish gerilla fighters in Kurdistan.