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EAST KURDISTAN, CIWANRO ─ According to reports, Salafi (radical Islamic gangs) are harassing the city’s youth; also they have been pressuring people in this region and have disrupted their lives. Radical Islamic groups who have extremist interpretations of Islam attack people under protection of Islamic morality charge. The Salafi groups interfere in all aspects of…

This is a question worth considering as since the start of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a part from Persians, none of other ethnicity and religious minorities has been able to take the governmental key posts. This is especially more evident in Kurdistan region as they are mostly Sunnis. With this regards, after the promises…

EAST KURDISTAN, URMIYE ─ According to local reports, a number of mercenaries and agents of the Iranian regime are wearing uniforms of Kurdish guerrillas, patrolling in different regions and villages of Urmiye they force traders from villages to pay them sums of money. It was said that these people are mercenaries from the Tergewer and…

ANF, BEHDÎNAN ─ Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Presidency has released a declaration highlighting the steps needed for the continuation of the democratic resolution process in search of a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question. KCK remarked that the AKP government used İmralı talks as an instrument to gain time and to eliminate the…

RUSSIA, ─ Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov said that the Kurdish Supreme Council and Syrian Coordinating of Patriot Council must be present on second meeting of Geneva. In this regard, Lavrov spoke with his state TV, announced that the Syrian opposition does not include only people from abroad but Kurds should be attend in…

HAWARNEWS, KOBANÊ ─ Şervan Muslim, the son of PYD (Democratic Union Party) co-chair Salih Muslim, has lost his life today following clashes in Til Ebyad, Rojava. According to information received clashes erupted today at around 5.30pm local time in Til Ebyad, some 15 km from the city of Kobanê, YPG (People’s Defense Units) clashed with…

IRAN, TEHRAN ─ Iran’s Parliament has issued an act that would legalize “marriage of supervisor with adopted (child), although there was not already a law on this regard. In 2012 parliament had approved the prohibition of supervisor marriage with adopted child but the Guardian Council objected to this matter, announcing that adopted child is not…

ANF, – Kurds everywhere have organised rallies to mark the 15th anniversary of what has became commonly known as the “international conspiracy” against Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. In Europe like in Turkey and Kurdistan, thousands will take to the streets once again to ask freedom for the Kurdish leader and an end to the policies…

EAST KURDISTAN, KERMANSHAH ─ Zeyneb Celaliyan (Zeynab Jalaliyan), the political prisoner of the women’s ward in Kermanshah’s Diesel Abad prison has been denied medical treatment and furlough, and she is in critical health condition. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), she has been suffering from vision problems for…

IRAN, ─ According to the report of Human Rights Activists in Iran, 129 people were executed between August and October of 2013, during the presidency of Rouhani. In the report mentioned, 1 teenager and 7 women executed. 17 prisoners were executed in public. 51 people were executed secretly that Human Rights groups also reported the…

EAST KURDISTAN, DEHGULAN ─ The Iranian regime law enforcement forces (NAJA) expand their programs towards cultural assimilation and self-alienation of Kurdish youths. “With the beginning of the security forces (NAJA) week, 32 special programs in villages and cities of Dehgulan will be held”, said security commander of Dehgulan. On September 30th, Mohammad Ramezani was in the…

IRAN, TEHRAN ─ Following the promises elected president of Iran Mr Hassan Rouhani made during his election campaign regarding the right of ethnic and religious minorities in Iran, Mr Rouhani has selected former Security services minister Mr Ali Younesi as his special assistant to the minorities’ affairs. Mr. Younesi served as Minister of Intelligence for former…

The short documentary with English subtitles, filmed by Balint Szlanko for a Hungarian television channel in August 2013, in Rojava (the Kurdish areas of northeastern Syria). Balint Szlanko is a journalist from Hungary, with an interest in foreign affairs and armed conflict. A writer and videojournalist, Balint has covered wars in Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.…

Demonstration for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Syria, to condemn the terrorist attacks, massacres and killings of civilians in the Western region of Kurdistan (Rojava) and Syria. The demonstration is in collaboration with the Norwegian Peace Council (Norges Fredråd) and Kurdish youth in Norway (UngKurd Norge).   WHY SHOULD YOU COME? Because it…

ANF, ANKARA ─ Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has begun speaking about the “democratization package”. Erdoğan says the package is the result of 11 years work on the part of the ruling AK party. He added the package will not be the solutions of all problems, but an important further step on the building of…

ANF, INTERVIEW ─ In an interview Özgür Gündem last weekend, the paper sat down with Besê Hozat, the co-president of the KCK. Hozat, who had just attended the PKK’s 11th Congress which took place earlier this month, spoke to the paper about the ongoing peace negotiations and the effect that Öcalan’s continued imprisonment is having…

EAST KURDISTAN ─ On the 23rd of September, a Kurdish citizen from Seqiz (Saghez) who is called by the name of Behruz Borhani, was targeted by the Iranian security forces. Consequently, he was killed. According to the Firat News Agency, while Behruz Borhani was driving on the road between Seqiz and Diwandere, he was attacked…

NORTH KURDISTAN, AMED ─ Selahattin Demirtaş the co-chair of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) who visited Kurdish national leader, Abdullah Öcalan on Sunday, September 14, discussed some details of this visit with the Özgür Gündem newspaper. Demirtaş had an interview with the Özgür Gündem newspaper regarding his recent meeting with Öcalan. He said: “Mr Öcalan…

Pervin Buldan the vice chairman of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) in Turkish parliament said that the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan gave three suggestions to advance the democratic solution. The first one is to change anti-terror law. The second is to form committees of the security, women, law and the economy. And the…