As an Aberdeen academic arrested by Turkish authorities is finally freed, Rhiannon Davies details the escalation of Turkey’s brutal authoritarianism

“DEAREST friends and colleagues, I’m finally out and free (hopefully)... I hope you won’t be facing such troubles or such violations of human rights in Turkey. That’s our hope, but we all know it will take some time to realise this hope.”

CommonSpace reports from the protest against the controversial Undersea Defence Technology conference

OUTSIDE THE Scottish Events Campus (SEC) in Glasgow today (26 June), demonstrators gathered to protest the first day of the Undersea Defence Technology conference, labelled an arms fair by outraged campaigners.

Pride organisers call out lack of local benefit and unethical production concerns in LGBT charity’s Primark partnership

RETAIL GIANT Primark’s Pride range, which will donate 20 per cent of profits to LGBT charity Stonewall UK, has come under fire after it emerged that the products will be manufactured in Turkey, China and Myanmar – all of which have poor LGBT rights records.

Solidarity activist Sarah Glynn visited Kurdish women in Rojava where she was inspired by their commitment in the face of multiple threats

SARAH GLYNN of Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan was part of a women’s delegation to Northern Syria earlier this month, where she witnessed firsthand the Kurdish women’s commitment to rebuilding the war-torn region, even as threats and instability continue on all sides.

GMB and Unite campaign to free Kurdish leader imprisoned in Turkey sends ‘birthday greeting’ via British ambassador

MARKING THE 69th birthday of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, a UK trade union campaign calling for his freedom has sent a birthday card and pointed letter to British Ambassador to Turkey, Sir Dominick Chilcott.

Human ‘statue’ of Kurdish symbol of resistance unveiled in Dundee

ACTIVISTS IN Dundee demonstrated solidarity with the Kurdish people in Northern Syria this Saturday (24 March) by unveiling a human ‘statue’ of Kawa the Blacksmith, a symbol of resistance.

Campaigners from Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan (SSK) came together with the Dundee Trades Union Council to oppose ongoing Turkish aggression in the region.

Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan member Sarah Glynn explores the symbolism behind the fall of a statue in northern Syria last week

WHEN, last Sunday, the Turkish invaders wanted to stamp their presence on the predominantly Kurdish city of Afrîn in northern Syria, one of the first things that they did was pull down a statue. 

Europe must not bow to Turkish pressure to silence Kurdish people, says Scottish solidarity movement

SCOTTISH SOLIDARITY WITH KURDISTAN has welcomed the release of Syrian-Kurdish leader Salih Muslim following his arrest in the Czech Republic on Sunday, but said it could set a dangerous precedent if European countries will act at Turkey’s behest.

Turkish assault on Kurdish-controlled Afrin condemned by cross-party parliamentarians

AMID TURKISH airstrikes and ground attacks in Northern Syria with the aim of removing the Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units), SNP MP Chris Stephens wrote to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Wednesday, urging him to take action to end the violence.

‘Glasgow Girl’ Roza Salih speaks to CommonSpace about the Kurdish people’s global struggle for equality and autonomy, and how revolutionaries in Syria have succeeded in creating a radical democracy with women at its core

“MANY countries in the Middle East have forgotten women’s role - they have forgotten 50 per cent of the population.” Roza Salih, co-founder of Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan, tells CommonSpace how the new governance system established in Rojava, Northern Syria, is revolutionary in more ways than one.