Tag: news
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DBP to discuss self-rule and autonomy in 15 cities
Following the declarations of self-rule in many settlements across North Kurdistan in the last two months, Party of Democratic Regions (DBP) is preparing to hold meetings to discuss self-governance and autonomy in 15 Kurdish cities between October 1-11. The meetings organised by DBP will witness a discussion of self-governance from various aspects in the provinces…
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Iranian lawyers condemning Turkish government
More than 124 lawyer and law expertise in a signed statement condemning the violence and destruction by the Turkish government against Kurdish people. Lawyers said “The international community is obliged to act on their responsibilities to the innocent Kurdish civilians, today Kurdish people are under attack by Turkish government and international community shouldn’t remaining silence…
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KNK: Thousands of Turkish police, soldiers and special operation teams are daily attacking Kurdish cities with heavy weapons
Since 24th of July, 32 civilian were been killed several injured. Turkish military and police forces in Kurdistan: ‘Many people will die and we will remain in the districts till the end of elections`. After 48 hours of attacks in Şırnak’s Cizre district and the murder of 4 civilians, the attacks by the Turkish military…
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PJAK: Executions in Iran will make the Iranian regime suffer the same fate as Tunisia
Iranian regime by executing another Kurdish political prisoner Bêhrûz Alxanî (Behruz Alkhani) forcing Kurdish nation to take a different decision. Executive council of PJAK in their statement pointed out that: Rouhani’s government must abandon its filthy and wrong politics in Kurdistan. Statement of PJAK continues that we remember the memory of Bêhrûz Alxanî who was courageously resisted…
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Kurdish political prisoner Bêhrûz Alxanî executed in Iran
ANF, ÛRMIYE – The Iranian regime continues executions of prisoners despite all the appeals and objections raised by Amnesty International and many other human rights organizations. Yesterday, Amnesty International reported that Bêhrûz Alxanî, a 30-year-old man from Rojhelat (eastern Kurdistan) minority was transferred out of Ûrmiye prison’s general ward and placed in solitary confinement in preparation for…
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KJAR calls on all women’s rights organizations to join together and struggle against women’s oppression
The brutal execution – Şehîd Ekîn Wan Turkey’s message to the world was: We are fighting terrorists, we must knock out the IS, but the plan from the begining was fighting against the IS then turn against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party). The attacks against IS was an excuse to attack the PKK, since 1th of August,…
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Kurds remember 15 August
BEHDINAN, ANF – The 15 of August 1984 is an important date for the Turkish-Kurdish conflict as it marks the first PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) attack, led by Mahsum Korkmaz (known as “Agit”). The 15 of August is remembered throughout Turkey, Kurdistan and Europe by thousands of Kurds. In the PKK’s second party Congress, which…
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A Kurdish Kolber was killed in Serdeşt
Mecîd Hesen Nejad, a Kurdish Kolber was shot and killed by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in borders close to Serdeşt on last week. (Kolber: people who carry goods across the border on their back, back carriers.) The border between East and South of Kurdistan, which the vast majority of Kolbers are using to provide food and living for their…
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Kurdish Political Prisoner Sîrwan Nejawî has been executed
Huseyn Nejawî talked to Kurdistan Human Rights Network according his brother, Sîrwan Nejawî’s execution. Huseyn said that Tabriz’s prison authorities informed them about his brother’s execution today, 9th August. Sîrwan Nejawî was a Kurdish political activist from Serdeşt, Nejawî and another activist Ibrahîm Îsapur imprisoned on 5ht July 2012, on the charge of collaborating with PJAK (Free Life Party of Kurdistan). Later on…
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1st anniversary of genocide against Êzîdîs in Şengal
Youths in Şengal mark the anniversary of the Êzîdî genocide Youths in Şengal staged a march to mark the first anniversary of the genocide perpetrated by the savage gangs of Islamic State organization in the Êzîdî town in South (Başur) Kurdistan, the Kurdish region in Iraq. The march by youths living in camps in West…
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KNK: The Turkish Military Carries out a New Kurdish Massacre
The Turkish Government’s Crimes against Humanity Continue Turkish military jets have continued to bomb in Qandil (Iraqi Kurdistan) and surrounding villages in the past 24 hours. In the early hours of 1st of August, between 4-5 am local time, Turkish jets bombed Qandil and Kurdish civilians again. In the last few hours the village of…
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Ending Öcalan’s Isolation Will Guarantee the Peace Process in Turkey
The Kurdish questionin Turkey entered a new phase with the publication of Abdullah Öcalan’s Newroz statements calling for negotiations for peace and democracy on March 21 in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Following these statements a two-year negotiation process occurred. However, when it became clear that the peace process would produce concrete results, the Turkish President…
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HPG requires an explanation from KDP about the Gabara Village Case
Three HPG (People’s Defence Force) guerrillas were martyred in Şengal (Sinjar). The HPG have asked the KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) for an explanation surrounding the circumstances of this tragedy. HPG commander of Şengal wrote, in an announcement dated 12 July, that three Guerrilla were martyred in what seemed to an event surrounded by suspicious circumstances on Şengal.…
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Amnesty International: Saman Naseem is alive
Iran: Whereabouts of juvenile offender on death row emerge five months after scheduled execution An Iranian juvenile offender whose fate and whereabouts had been unknown since he was due to be executed in February was able to call his relatives from prison over the weekend, ending five months of unbearable suffering by his loved ones,…
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Intelligence Office arrested a young Kurdish man in Ciwanro
ROJHELAT, CIWANRO ─ A young man from Ciwanro in Rojhelat (East Kurdistan) was arrested and taken to an unknown location by agents of the regime. A local source informed Firat News Agency that 26-year-old Yasir Nûrî, on 6 July, had been arrested by agents of the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence. The same source said intelligence…
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A Kurdish Activist from Mehabad was sentenced to two years in prison
ROJHELAT, MAHABAD ─ Kurdish activist, Faiq Çîre, was summoned by the Intelligence Office in Mahabad, and he sentenced to two years in jail. Faiq Çîre, on the 18th of May, was newly charged with both propaganda against the regime and “disturbing public opinion” by the Mahabad Revolutionary Court. According to a person close to Faiq…
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KHRN: Injured Kurdish student protester dies from critical wounds
A Kurdish student injured by Iranian security forces during protests in Mahabad has died from critical wounds at Imam Khomeini hospital in the city of Orumiyeh. Akam Talaj, 19, was shot and injured on May 17 amid widespread protests in the city of Mahabad following the suspicious death of a Kurdish chambermaid at a local…
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Aryo Leylax: Iranian government and Sepah cannot conceal their political and security plans
In the last few decades along political plans against the Kurdish nation, the Iranian regime has started to build dams to generalize urbanity and ruining village population system. Because of the extreme suppression by the regime within the country, no one could hear the voice of the civic environment organization and liberals. Therefore, the only…
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Permanent Link to Report by KHRN on Mansour Arvand, a Kurdish political prisoner hanged in Iran
Kurdish political prisoner Mansour Arvand was hanged in Miandoab (Miyanduaw) prison on 27 May. Intelligence and judiciary officials were present at the scene of his execution. However, his family members and lawyer were not informed of the date and time of his execution. “Mansour’s sentence was carried out strangely”, a Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)…
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An Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps colonel was killed in Serdeşt
Following the recent operations against PJAK in Rojhelat (East Kurdistan), a Revolutionary Guard corps colonel was killed in Serdeşt. Some close sources to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps revealed that during an armed clash with PJAK’s Gerrilla an Iranian Revolutionary Guards colonel was killed in Sardasht. This fight occurred after Iranian regime deployed tens of…