6 JUN. 2024 · Written in Kurmanji Kurdish, 'Lovers of Franz K.' by award-winning novelist and PEN International President Burhan Sönmez brings the long denied Kurdish culture and language alive. The author talks to journalist and poet Matt Broomfield in a recent Medya News podcast: 

10 MAY. 2024 · In a recent podcast interview with Medya News, Lena Charlotta Lagnänder speaks to Erem Kansoy about the ‘Freedom for Öcalan, a Political Solution for the Kurdish Question’ campaign. Kansoy and Lagnänder discuss the importance of the campaign, and the possible legal avenues that could contribute to winning Öcalan’s freedom. The interview focuses on the failure of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) to visit Öcalan during their recent visit to Turkey, and the organisation’s decision not to disclose their recent reports. 

5 MAY. 2024 · In an exclusive interview, Dutch parliamentarian Kati Piri talks about the decision of the Dutch Parliament to block the EU's Customs Union update with Turkey in the event that European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rulings on the release of former HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş and philanthropist Osman Kavala are not implemented.  

30 ABR. 2024 · Dr. Thoreau Redcrow, a conflict analyst from the US, condemned the Western world for failing to act on the prolonged incommunicado detention of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, citing inconsistency with democratic values. 

12 ABR. 2024 · Irish Republican Martina Anderson discusses oppression, resistance and pathways to peace, with Kurdistan expert Fréderike Geerdink.

10 ABR. 2024 · Bedia Özgökçe Ertan, a Kurdish politician herself removed from office in Van after winning the popular vote in 2019, speaks to Medya News to discuss the government’s attempt to subvert the democratic process in the city by preventing Abdullah Zeyan from taking office. 

10 ABR. 2024 · PACE member Kostis Efstathiou, a Greek Cypriot MP and esteemed criminal lawyer, condemns Turkey's policy of isolation imposed on PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan as 'inhumane' and an explicit form of torture. 

24 FEB. 2024 · We should deal with the smallest problems people have. In that way, we can make them understand what Abdullah Öcalan is talking about. In our small village, we're 800 people - and we are working like that. We have a democratic, grassroots movement. Instead of going backwards, as most rural parts in Sweden do, we have developed our little village. We own our own fire department, grocery store, a lot of houses; we have a hostel, and apartments to rent.

22 FEB. 2024 · "I transitioned from being an ‘objective observer’ to being an ‘advocate for social change’. That’s a perfectly legitimate position as a journalist. It’s okay to take a stance, if it’s based on knowledge and facts. It’s okay to speak out when it comes to the position of groups in society that have no institutional power. Without Kurdish media, we would all be in the dark about the daily realities in Kurdistan."

21 FEB. 2024 · Ögmundur Jónasson, former Interior Minister for Iceland, participated in a recent Brussels conference addressing the continued detention of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, as well as joining a recent delegation to Iraqi Kurdistan.