Rojava Information Center

Rojava Information Center
Company typeMedia center
FoundedDecember 2018
FounderThomas McClure
Joan Garcia
Chloe Troadec
Headquarters
Qamishli
,
Syria
Websitehttps://rojavainformationcenter.com

The Rojava Information Center (RIC) (Kurdish: Navenda Agahîyan a Rojava) is a news agency in Syria. Its headquarters are located in Qamishli.[1] It was founded by foreign volunteers in Rojava (Thomas McClure, Joan Garcia, Koni Docolomansky and Chloé Troadec) in reaction to the December 2018 announcement of US president Donald Trump of a US military withdrawal from Rojava.[2] The project creators were worried there might be another war and in their perception there was little foreign media present at the time. During the Turkish invasion of Afrin, the RIC began to provide information to a wide range of foreign reporters.[3]

The aim of the RIC is to provide foreign journalists with information from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), better known as Rojava.[2]

Rojava Information Center describes Rojava as "An organization which follows path of socialist revolutionary named Abdullah Öcalan" who is the founder of PKK.[4]

  1. ^ Staff, Al-Monitor (2020-08-28). "COVID-19 cases increasingly rapidly in northeast Syria". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  2. ^ a b Bellingreri, Marta (2019-12-24). "Rojava Information Center, a media bridge to the world outside". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  3. ^ "International volunteers play a key role in documenting Turkish offensive". Syria Direct. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  4. ^ "The New York Times - In the Autonomous Zones". Rojava Information Center. Archived from the original on 27 June 2021.