Kenan Observatory

For four hours he spoke before the courtroom of the Larnaca District Court. He did not tire, carrying stamina from the mountains of Kurdistan. He did not break down, he knows that his struggle is just, he knows that others are in prison, others have died, others...

After serving 13 years of imprisonment in Turkey, first in 1993 at the age of 17 and then in 2009, Kenan Agias fled to Cyprus. He trusted her, like so many other Kurds whose lives are in danger in Turkish-occupied Kurdistan. She thought that the Cypriot people are a...

Kurdish politician Kenan Ayaz sent a message to the Cypriot people expressing his thanks for their support and solidarity. According to a statement from the Cyprus-Kurdish Solidarity Association, Kenan Ayaz expressed his respect "to the honourable Cypriot people,...

What a coincidence! In the days when Theodoros Pangalos was leaving the mundane world and the reflexive public assessment - unfortunately often in a disrespectful way for the dead - of his political work was bringing the Ocalan case back to the forefront, we here in...

Kurdish political refugee Kenan Ayas, who was arrested on March 15 at Larnaca airport on the basis of a German arrest warrant on suspicion of membership of a terrorist organisation, namely the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), will remain in custody until Friday. Ayas,...

The Minister of Justice and the Government Spokesman were surprised yesterday on television because, they said, some people were demanding that they intervene in the justice system in the case of the Kurdish militant Kenan Ayas. Alas, they said, if we interfered with...

Aristos Michaelides The head of Germany's intelligence and internal security service, Thomas Haldenweg, said the other day that the jihadist arm of the Islamic State jihadist group in Afghanistan has been of increasing concern to the agency recently. "The...

Through letters to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, MEP Costas Mavridis raises the serious issue of the extradition of...

I just got back from Central Prison. I went - with my friend Kyriakos Tsimilli - to visit the Kurdish militant Kenan Ayas, a few days before the Republic of Cyprus sends the man in iron bandages to German prisons (and possibly to Turkey). The atmosphere full of dust...

FREEDOM IN CYPRUS, FREEDOM IN KURDISTAN. These words belong to our comrade Kenan Ayaz, who shouts them loudly without getting tired, during two months of unjust and illegal judicial proceedings, during which time political negotiations and transactions took place. We,...

With ambiguities, legalisms and communication gimmicks, the Cypriot government seeks to obscure the landscape and to bend the objections and reactions of the Cypriot society, in relation to the decision of the Cypriot judiciary to extradite the Kurdish political...