Tag: news
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Serdeşt was the first Kurdish city where became the target of chemical bombs
Today is the 29th anniversary of chemical attack on Serdeşt in Rojhelat (eastern Kurdistan) by Iraqi Regime (June 28 and 29, 1987). Despite the passage of 29 years since the tragedy, still the victims’ needs of physician have been futile so far. The tragedy of 29th June 1987 is an international issue. For a while, after the Iraqi…
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TJK-E held Jineoloji conference in Paris
ANF, PARIS ─ The Kurdish Women’s Movement in Europe (TJK-E) held its “Jineoloji against the darkness of positive sciences; woman life freedom” conference in the French capital city Paris. Participants of the conference discussed the critique of positive sciences and discussed the parameters of Jineoloji as a women’s paradigm. The conference held in the Monteuil…
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Karayılan: We are in a process of creating free Kurdistan
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Executive Committee Member Murat Karayılan answered Dengê Kurdistan Radio‘s questions on the recent developments in Northern Kurdistan. The interview by Dengê Kurdistan Radio was translated by ANF English service below. Eights cities and towns in Northern Kurdistan have been burned and torn down by the AKP government and state which now…
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Kurdish political prisoner put in solitary confinement to force him to end hunger strike
Prosecutor: “As long as he continues his hunger strike, he will stay in solitary confinement and will die there.” Kurdish political prisoner Ayoub Assadi has been placed in solitary confinement to force him to end his hunger strike even though medical staff at Kashmar Prison’s clinic in Iran’s Razavi Khorasan Province had recommended his immediate…
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PJAK: A beginning on an end of Latin America’s longest war and advent of peace generation of Colombians
Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) assembly in a statement congratulate FARC guerrillas and free people of Latin America on the occasion of signing peace treaty between FARC-EP and Colombian government. PJAK’s statement is as follow: PJAK congratulate the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (FARC-EP) Comrades and fighters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of…
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HRANA: Ayoub Asadi on the 20th Day of Hunger Strike
HRANA ─ Ayoub Asadi, political prisoner who is ill and has been exiled to Kashmar, is on the 20th day of his hunger strike to protest against the lack of medical care and medical leave, as well as the unfair sentence of 20 years imprisonment. His family has no news of him and is concerned about him.…
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Southern Kurdistan’s oil to flow to Iran instead of Turkey
ANF, NEWS DESK ─ Southern Kurdistan Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Taha Zengene announced that they have reached a new oil agreement with Iran. Zengene spoke on a television network and said the 50 year oil agreement with Turkey was not beneficial for the Kurds and that the agreement with Iran would be signed in…
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Reaction from US to the expulsion of REPAK in Hewlêr
JINHA, NEWS CENTER ─ A reaction came from the US to the closure of the office of REPAK in Hewlêr (Erbil). 75 people, mostly academics, urged the Kurdistan Regional Government to remove the obstacles to the works of the Kurdish Center for Women’s Affairs (REPAK). The premises of the Kurdish Women’s Relation Office (REPAK) in Hewlêr (Erbil –…
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From Kobanê massacre towards collective self-defense
KOBANÊ, ANF ─ The Kurds are obliged to form their security and defense force to protect themselves based on “self defense” in order not to disappear, to stop the genocide and the massacres. Self-defense forces (HPC, Hêzên Parastina Cewheri) and it’s women branch HPC-JIN forces formed after the Kobanê massacre are based on this foundation.…
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Mistreatment of Women Political Prisoners at Iran’s Evin Prison
Political prisoners held in the Women’s Ward at Iran’s Evin Prison are routinely denied medical care and hospitalization, face severely restricted or denied visitation rights even with their young children, are deprived of regular telephone contact with their families, and are not provided adequate nutrition, according to a report released today by the International Campaign…
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YRK: 4 guerillas massacred in an ambush in Rojhelat
East Kurdistan Defense Units (YRK, Yekîneyên Parastina Rojhilatê Kurdistan) issued a written statement and announced that the colonialist Iranian state continues its attacks on the people and freedom fighters of Rojhelat (East Kurdistan). YRK stated that 4 guerillas were ambushed and massacred between the villages of Axalan and Dîwalan near the Serdeşt region of Mukiryan…
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KCK condemns the ISIS attack in Orlando
KCK (Kurdistan Communities’ Union) Executive Council condemned the ISIS attack in the US and offered their condolences to the people of the US and the families and friends of those that were killed in Orlando. In its statement, KCK emphasized that fascist gangs have been a menace in the Middle East through the support they…
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The Final Resolution of the conference: The Policy of Execution in Iran
The different nationalities in Iran have not been able to get desired results, despite their continuous struggle for democracy, freedom and acknowledgement of their identities. One of the main reasons for this is the lack of an unified as well as a lack of democratic front that could reassure an assembly of nations and liberation…
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A conference on “The policy of execution in Iran” held in Sweden
A conference on: The policy of execution in Iran, pathology and resistance to this phenomenon On 21st May 2016 a conference was organized in Stockholm, Sweden, in cooperation with the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), and Farzad Kamangar Foundation. The conference was attended by parties and organizations and included two…
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Kurdish political prisoner on hunger strike in Iran’s Evin prison
‘Mohamad Sedigh Kaboudwand, a Kurdish human rights activist and journalist jailed in the ward 350 of the notorious Evin prison of Tehran launched a hunger strike on 8 May 2016 to protest against the new fabricated charges against him and the rejection of his request to benefit from an adjustment of his penalty,” a well-informed…
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A conference on: The policy of execution in Iran, pathology and resistance to this phenomenon
A conference has been organised in Stockholm on 21st May to evaluate from multiple perspectives the inhumane policy of execution that has reached the apex in Iran, with the recorded number of more than 1,000 persons in 2015. The invited political and human rights activists will present talks on execution in Iran, promoting an effective…
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KHRN: Two Kurdish brothers at imminent risk of execution in Iran
Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has received disturbing news on fate of two Kurdish brothers who are prisoners and they are at imminent risk of execution at an Iranian prison One of them suffers from serious spinal column damage and his brother was a juvenile when he was arrested. KHRN would like to share the…
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YRK’s statement about the details of the recent conflicts in Serdeşt
We all live in an age where all of the world’s wars have spread throughout the world. At the same time it will pave the way for further expansion of the crisis. Kurdistan has been under criminal occupation of the government of our homeland. Despite the efforts for freedom and solution of the Kurdish issue…
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Pro-Kurdish Activists Protest Facebook’s War On Kurds
More than a dozen activists protested the popular social media site Facebook today for censoring pro-Kurdish content. Organised by the group ‘Stop War on Kurds’ in front of Facebook headquarters in London, the demonstration lasted several hours with demonstrators calling for an end to “Facebook’s blocking of pro-Kurdish content and activists.” A press release read…
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KNK: The Task of the Kurdistan people in the 100th Anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement
Kurdistan is a rich and a fertile land. Therefore, it has been subjected to aggressions and occupations. The richness of Kurdistan has always attracted both neighboring countries and other countries far away in a colonial-interest manner. They all have exploited Kurdistan and have tried to continue their dominance and occupation against the will of the…