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NEWROZ TV — A Kurdish civilian from the city of Bane that was shot and injured by Iranian security forces has died of his wounds. According to the local sources, he died on February 22 in the city of Bane in eastern Kurdistan. Around three weeks ago, Iranian security forces shot at Sei´d Solemani, a resident…

Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) head office has released a statement on Thursday on the results of the BDP central executive board meeting on Wednesday. BDP said that the meeting focused on the recent meeting with Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the current political environment in Turkey and activities…

The Washington Post reported, an Iranian semi-official news agency is reporting that a commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards has been killed in the country’s Kurdish northwest. The Sunday report by Fars quotes a statement by the Guards as saying Gen. Hamid Tabatabaei was killed during an engineering assignment. It was the third reported killing…

ANF, ISTANBUL — Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputies Sırrı Süreyya Önder, Pervin Buldan and Altan Tan have returned from Imralı Island where they have visited the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan on Saturday. Making a short statement after the visit, BDP group deputy chair Pervin Buldan quoted the Kurdish leader saying the followings;…

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran — Two female Kurdish political prisoners at Orumiyeh Prison have faced repeated summonses to the Prison Intelligence Unit this year, a local human rights activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Interrogators have pressured the women to provide televised confessions and to cooperate with the Intelligence…

NEWROZ TV — Last week Iranian security forces shot at a group of Kurdish Kolbers (people who carry goods across the border on their back) and tradesmen in a border area around the city of Serdesht in Eastern Kurdistan and injured one Kurdish Kolber. According to Firat News Agency, Iranian armed forces in the border…

NEWROZ TV — After massive arrests of journalists in Tehran in which Tehran prosecutor described them as mouthpiece of enemy on the last month, another wave of arrests of journalists has taken place in Ilam, on February 18. This time Iranian regime arrested 12 journalists in the province of Ilam in Eastern Kurdistan. While the…

NEWROZ TV — February 21 is the International Mother Language Day. Mzgin Agit one of the members of Committee for Language and Education of Kurdish Communities Union issued a statement in this relation. Mizgin Agit in his statement says: “our language is our existence; our language is our life and our body. Without language there…

NEWROZ TV — Another area liberated by People´s Defence Units in Western Kurdistan. After liberating many strategic and crucial regions and cities of Western Kurdistan, People´s Defence Units (YPG) on February 21 liberated Chelaxa a town, around Girkê Legê, from the hands of Syrian regime. Hundreds of Kurdish forces surrounded the government buildings and locations…

  ANF, Istanbul — Thousands of people took to the streets on Thursday to mark the International Mother Tongue Day which has been celebrated in Turkey with torch marches, press conferences and concerts across the country under the leadership of  KURDÎ-DER (Kurdish Language Research and Development Union) and Eğitim Sen. People voiced their demands for the…

ANF, News Desk — Despite immense difficulties and threats from the regime, the Kurdish language institution (Saziya Zimanê Kurdî) introduced education in the Kurdish language in the cities of Rimelan and Girkê Legê. Similar steps have been taken in a number of cities, radically changing the Syrian educational system, most notably in the city of Efrîn…

ANF, SERÊKANIYÊ — An agreement has been reached between Kurdish Supreme Council and FSA in regard to Serêkaniyê, which includes: all foreign fighters will leave the area; there will be joint checkpoints of FSA and YPG; there will be a joint local council in the area of Sere Kaniye, based on consensus; the local council…

ANF, LONDON — The International Initiative “Freedom for Öcalan. Peace in Kurdistan” has published an ad in the British daily The Guardian today. The appeal asking for freedom for the Kurdish leader in order to enable him to play his role in the search for a solution to the Kurdish question and the achievement of…

ANF, News Desk — On 15 February 1999 Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, was captured in Kenya by Turkish special agents acting in connection with CIA and Mossad, while on route from the Greek embassy to Nairobi airport. The capture of Turkey’s “enemy number one” was claimed by the authorities in Ankara as their victory against…

ANF, Athens — On the 14th anniversary of the international conspiracy of February 15th, a seminar was held in Greece. In this seminar it was asserted that due to Greece’s involvement in this conspiracy, the Greek government should apologize to the Kurdish people, to whom the government is indebted. Also, the Greek were demanded to play…

NEWROZ TV — Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Presidency issued a statement in relation to the 14th anniversary of international conspiracy of kidnapping the leader of Kurdish people, Abdulla Ocalan. KCK harshly condemned the February 15th conspiracy in its statement and evaluated the period of 14 years after this plot. KCK Executive Council Presidency…

ANF, Paris — At least 23 Kurds have been taken into custody in France and Spain on Tuesday. The operations which target the political activities of Kurds are being coordinated by the French state which have arrested hundreds of Kurds for political reasons in the scope of the security cooperation agreement it made with Turkey in…

Newroz TV — Indictment for enmity against god was issued against a Kurdish old man, detained in Rajay-Shehre Karaj prison, by General Prosecutor of Tehran. According to the local news, Namiq Mehmudi, 72 years old, a resident of village of Iranxah, around the city of Seqiz that have been under severe torture and detained in a…