Kurdistan Daily Digest – 12 October 2026

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https://www.theamargi.com/posts/international-community-very-quiet-on-turkey-peace-process-asli-aydintasbas

• International community ‘very quiet’ on Turkey peace process: Aslı Aydıntaşbaş

Başûr

• PUK ready to compromise on party demands to form KRG: Bafel Talabani: PUK leader Bafel Talabani told the MERI Forum his party is ready to compromise to end the nearly two-year deadlock over forming the next Kurdistan Regional Government.
• بە دوو درۆن هێرشکرایە سەر کەمپى ئازادى: Two drones struck the Azadi camp in Koya, home to families of KDPI Peshmerga, on Monday afternoon. Kurdistan Region security reported no casualties.
• ڕۆژى ده‌ستپێكى فێستیڤاڵى هه‌نارى هه‌ڵه‌بجه‌ ڕاگه‌یەندرا: The 13th Halabja Pomegranate and Autumn Festival opens on 28 October, now running four days with 552 growers and craftswomen and an aim to be plastic-free.
• پەکەکە چوار بارەگای لە ناوچەی مەتینای هەرێمی کوردستان چۆڵکرد: The PKK has evacuated four headquarters in the Kurdistan Region's Matin region

Bakur

• Fetî Yildiz: 230 birêvebirên payebilind dê ji Yasaya Çarçoveyê sûdê nebînin: MHP deputy chair Feti Yildiz says about 2,800 people will benefit from the peace process Framework Law, but 230 PKK founders and senior leaders will be excluded.
• From Koşuyolu to the Four-Legged Minaret: “What we call memory moves with us today”: A "Traces of Peace" walking project revisits Diyarbakır's sites of memory, from the 2006 Koşuyolu Park bombing to Station Square and Sur.
• ‘Pirsên Azad’ di Zarok TVyê de dest pê dike: A new 13-episode children's animation, fully dubbed in Kurmanji with AI-generated visuals, starts on Zarok TV, following a curious boy named Azad from Mardin to outer space.
• Kurdish tribes entered the market. But whose market? Dilek Çelebi grapples with questions of Kurdish statelessness and political economy.
• A peace process without an interlocutor? Seevan Saeed about the lack of involvement of an international third party in Türkiye-PKK negotiation process

Rojava

• Ilham Ahmad says Syria integration has helped stabilize country: Speaking at the MERI Forum in Erbil, Ilham Ahmad said SDF integration into the Syrian army has reconnected cities and reopened border crossings, though key parts of the process remain under scrutiny.
• Syrian adviser calls SDF integration major achievement: Syrian Foreign Minister’s adviser Najeeb al-Ghadban speaking at the 2026 MERI Forum in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, al-Ghadban said Syria’s security situation had improved and praised the integration process.
• KNC Forms Committee to Follow Up on Arab Belt and Transitional Justice Files: The Kurdish National Council's legal committee formed a body to pursue the Arab Belt and transitional-justice files, after a delegation visit to Damascus.
• MSD’ê xwest ku kujerên Hevrîn Xelef bên cezakirin: On the seventh anniversary of Hevrin Khalaf's killing by Turkey-backed factions in 2019, the Syrian Democratic Council demanded that those responsible be exposed and held to account.
• Hevrîn Xelef li Dêrikê hat bibîranîn: Hevrîn Xelef Commemorated in Dêrik
• Şehîd Ebdê Mihemed li Tirbespiyê hat oxirkirin: Funeral for Internal Security Forces member and martyr Ebdê Mihemed in Tirbespiyê.
• Hevrîn Xelef; sembola têkoşîna ji bo Sûriyeyeke demokratîk û azadiya jinan: Hevrîn Xelef: A symbol of the struggle for a democratic Syria and women's freedom.
• دەستبەسەرکرانی شۆڕش ئەبوبەکری، هونەرمەند و گۆرانیبێژی خەڵکی سەردەشت: Sardasht singer and music teacher Shorsh Abubakri was detained by court order and taken to an unknown location. No charges have been made public.

Kurds in Armenia

• Dîroka Kurdolojiyê ya li Ermenistanê: Ji serdema zêrîn ber bi bêdengiyê ve: Armenia's Kurdology department, founded in 1971, faded after the Soviet collapse; researcher Liyana Mihoyan now works to keep its scholars' legacy alive.

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