Australian Kurdish community

The Kurdish community and supporters gathered at New South Wales Parliament聽to mark 100 years of the Treaty of Lausanne. Isaac Nellist reports.

Sydney's Kurdish community celebrated聽International Women's Day at a well-attended gathering at the Democratic Kurdish Community Centre in Kings Park. Peter Boyle reports.

Alex Salmon reports on a protest against Turkey鈥檚 invasion of southern Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) organised by the Kurdish community and supporters in Perth.

Greens MP Jamie Parker condemns Turkey's invasion of Syria

On October 8, NSW Greens MP for Balmain Jamie Parker addressed the first of a round of emergency聽protests against Turkey's invasion of the Kurdish-liberated democratic autonomous territories in northern and eastern Syria, popularly known as聽Rojava.

On October 6 NSW Supreme Court Judge Natalie Adams reserved her decision on Kurdish journalist Renas Lelikan鈥檚 bail appeal until 14 October. Lelikan, who is charged with membership of the Kurdistan Workers鈥 Party (PKK), has been remanded in custody since July 20.

Originally held in Sydney鈥檚 Silverwater Prison, he was transferred to isolation in the Goulburn 鈥淪upermax鈥 jail following death threats against him by ISIS sympathisers.