Rozh Ahmad

Rozh Ahmad is a freelance journalist, in the last three years he has reported from Europe, Iraq, Turkey and Syria for different Kurdish and English publications.

Death of Kurdish workers in Turkey spark widespread violence

Turkish police killing two Kurdish industrial workers has led to mass demonstrations, widespread violence and the abduction of soldiers, raising serious doubts about the ongoing Turkey-Kurdish peace process.

By Rozh Ahmad

/ 17 Dec 2013

Mass slaughter of civilian Kurds in Syria ignites heavy clashes and mass exodus

The al-Qaeda linked “Jabhat al-Nusra” (al-Nusra Front) in Syria, stands accused of instigating a sectarian racist war against civilian Kurds in Syria’s northern Kurdish region, one that is escalating rapidly.

By Rozh Ahmad

/ 28 Aug 2013

Mr. Erdoğan, give me back my sons

On top of those arrested in the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, in the last three years alone, an estimated 10,000 political and non-political activists have been arrested on alleged PKK links.

By Rozh Ahmad

/ 12 Jul 2013

Turkey’s Kurdish prison journalist speaks out

In this interview conducted in Diyarbakir, the unofficial Kurdish capital in Turkey, Aydin Yildiz tells the story of his imprisonment without trial and his time as a journalist reporting from inside his prison cell.

By Rozh Ahmad

/ 3 Jun 2013

Purge of the Kurds, the dark side of Turkish “democracy”

Despite the initial reforms announced by the government towards the recognition of Kurdish rights, journalist Rozh Ahmad reports on the systematic persecution of Kurdish people in Turkey.

By Rozh Ahmad

/ 5 Nov 2012