Medya News Podcast

During its ongoing invasion of Gaza, Israel has so far killed over 13,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and forcibly displaced 1.7 million of the region's 2.3 million Palestinian residents. Almost 1,300 Israelis were also killed by Hamas and other militant, Islamist groups during the 7 October attack on southern Israel which sparked the invasion, while the crisis has also led to g...

“All the bans, on demonstrations, meetings [...] are nothing but the denial of basic democratic rights. Democratic meetings are denied, banned, and often at the request of the secret service, and this means nothing but the abolition of democratic rights.”

The World Youth Conference together young people from 49 countries and 95 different organisations, all fighting against the system of capitalist modernity in their own, original way.

"The international body now looks at Turkey and sees it as one of the two or three worst governments in the world in terms of the imprisonment not just of political prisoners, but anybody who speaks out at all about conditions in the country." - Denis O’Hearn speaks to Medya News

Medya News talks to Elisabeth Warner, Swiss politician and founder of a Geneva-based NGO working to improve the protection of civilians in armed conflict. We ask for her perspective on concrete steps towards peace and dialogue in the Turkish-Kurdish conflict.

Discover how the 'New World Embassy' in Lausanne brings together diverse voices to discuss stateless democracy, autonomy, and the role of grassroots politics in shaping our future.

Jina Mahsa Amini's legacy lives on through the ongoing Kurdish women's uprising in Iran. Discover the impact of this global movement as Matt Broomfield speaks to Rojin Mukriyan:

Canadian political thinker Demitrios Roussopoulos speaks to Medya News' Erem Kansoy about the urgent need to release Öcalan for peace in Turkey's Kurdish regions.

A panel convened by Medya News and the Kurdish Peace Institute, a Washington-based research and policy institute, focused on exploring routes toward re-opened peace talks and a negotiated political settlement between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish government.

Nadine Maenza, President of the IRF Secretariat, advocates for urgent humanitarian and political support for the Yazidi people in a special interview with Medya News.

In Lavrio camp, near Athens, Kurdish refugees had established a system of autonomous organisation inspired by the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan. Beginning with the final clearance of the camp, under Turkish pressure, Sarah Glynn’s weekly news review looks at the many ways Kurds are being oppressed in different parts of Kurdistan, often – but by no means only – by the Turkish government.

In Matt Broomfield’s podcast, Jeff Miley delves into his book, 'Self-Determination Struggles: In Pursuit of the Democratic Confederalist Ideal,' exploring the evolution of the concept.

Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy recently announced his country’s long-expected counter-offensive against the ongoing Russian invasion, pushing back with the support of the NATO security alliance. Authorities in Ukraine, which itself is not yet a formal member of NATO, are closely following Turkey’s ongoing refusal to allow Sweden to accede to the security alliance, while demanding concessions primar...

Matt Broomfield speaks to a spokesman for the Swedish Solidarity Committee for Rojava to discuss the ongoing crisis in Sweden, a country on the cusp of breaking with a tradition of relative neutrality and acceding to the NATO security alliance, making a series of concessions in order to convince Turkey to stop exercising its veto and blocking the Nordic country from joining the security alliance.

Ögmundur Jónasson, a former Minister of the Interior for Iceland with a long career in domestic and European politics, speaks to Matt Broomfield about Turkey. Jónasson described the situation in the country as ‘worse than ever’ and highlighted the continued need for international pressure on the Turkish authorities, particularly over the continued isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.

Matt Broomfield and Dastan Jasim look at how international reporting on the Kurdish issue can be strengthened, and the fresh challenges increased global media scrutiny has brought to Kurdish regions.

Holloway observed that Öcalan had shown him the world through a new and different historical and geographical context and that Öcalan’s philosophy and the movement it has generated have brought a fresh approach that is engaging people in its politics. He noted that the conference we were both at demonstrated that the Kurdish Movement has become a very important influence on radical left and antica...

Former Coalition spokesman Colonel Myles Caggins III, now a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, spoke to Medya News’ Matt Broomfield to give his perspective on the drone strike against Mazloum Abdi while he was travelling in a convoy with US officials near the airport in Sulaymaniyah (Slemani). He warned that the SDF and their associated civilian entities...

Matt Broomfield of Medya News talks to Samantha Teal, who has heard eyewitness accounts of a double tap massacre in North and East Syria in mid-November in which there were a number of civilian casualties.

A doctor who travelled to Iraqi Kurdistan with a delegation investigating chemical weapons usage has said neither the Iraqi Kurdish authorities nor Baghdad will effectively investigate alleged Turkish chemical weapons usage, and called on European states to escalate the claims to the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

The slogan ‘Jin, Jîyan, Azadî’ is reverberating around the world once again, as the women of Iran call it out on the streets in protests against the 16 September killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Jîna Mahsa Amini by Iran’s notorious ‘morality police’. The US State Department even tweeted on Friday showing support for the women of Iran with an English translation of the three words – ‘Woman, Lif...

Listen our Daily Review: 92 illegal migrants were sent to Greece from Turkey stripped naked, Evrin Prison fire amidst nation-wide protests in Iran, HDP co-chair joins Congress of European Socialists.

Watch our Daily Review: Syrian city of Afrin is under control of al-Qaeda backed group, Iraqi lawmakers elect veteran Kurdish politician Latif Rashid, over 113 Kurds wounded by Iranian security forces in crackdown on protests, plus more Intro According to reports, al-Qaeda-backed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has taken full control of the northern Syrian city of Afrin as a result of conflicts between...

Listen our Daily Review: ❶ IPPNW demand investigation into Turkey's alleged chemical weapon use ❷ KNK co-chair condemns Iranian state violance ❸ US Senator: Turkey must halt offensives in Syria ❹ Kurdish kids target of fingerprint campaign

Medya News Daily Review is a concise summary of yesterday's news, including a video said to contain footage of Kurdish scholar Nagihan Akarsel's assassin, Iranian protests, Turkish bombardments in Syria, and Turkish police assaults on protesters at Öcalan rallies.