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We hear about the Dad Letter Project which was set up by a father and daughter in the US to send handwritten notes of love and support to people all over the world. Rosie wants to share her treasured experience of receiving letters from her dad Buz when she was growing up. They'v ... Show More

United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, says the famine in Gaza City is a 'failure of humanity' after a UN-backed body raised its food insecurity status in parts of the territory to the most severe. Also: FBI agents search the office and home of President Trump's form ... Show More

A UN-backed body has confirmed a famine in Gaza City after twenty-two months of conflict and warned it could spread to other parts of the territory by the end of September. The UN says it's been caused by Israel's systematic obstruction of aid deliveries. Israel has denied there ... Show More

This week on The New Arab Voice, we look at the recent ceasefire agreement between the PKK and the Turkish state. The Kurdistan’s Worker’s Party (PKK) and the Turkish state have been in a state of conflict since 1984. The conflict has killed over 35,000 people and achieved little ... Show More

Cengiz Candar is a lawmaker for the pro-Kurdish DEM party in Turkey who has spent long years in the Middle East. Candar outlines how Israel has hugely benefited from the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, while Turkey — another big winner — is seeking to thwart Kurdish aspiration ... Show More

As Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s transitional president, meets Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, we ask: what role is Turkey seeking to play when it comes to regional security? Then we discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to the White House to see Donald Trump. Plus, a ceasefire i ... Show More

Kurdish forces have a long history of siding with the United States. And the United States has a long history of eventually selling them out.  The latest iteration of this dynamic unfolded when Donald Trump ordered a small US military contingent to withdraw from Kurdish controlle ... Show More

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a militant Kurdish group that has been a thorn in Turkey’s side for decades, called a ceasefire 

Today we speak to Kurdish researcher Dastan Jasim about the new front opened up in the Kurdish region of Iraq. The leading party of the Kurdistan region has teamed up with the Turkish military to drive out the Kurdish rebels of the PKK. In the process, many civilians are being ha ... Show More

Today we speak to journalist Fréderike Geerdink about the current clashes taking place in southeast Turkey, where the Turkish government removed democratically elected Kurdish politicians. The clashes have gotten heavy and a new Kurdish militant group has emerged... Discounted in ... Show More

Turkey’s defence ministry said it “destroyed” at least 30 Kurdistan Workers’ Party militant targets in airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. 

The arrest and jailing of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, Turkey’s main political challenger to President Erdogan, has sent shockwaves across the country. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest his detention and express growing concerns over Turkey's shift to ... Show More

This week on The New Arab Voice podcast, we look at the potential for a normalisation deal between Syria and Turkey. In recent years, Syria has been welcomed back into the regional fold, and yet Damascus has still not normalised with Ankara, and Turkish troops remain on Syrian so ... Show More