Dr. Jonathan Spyer is a senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya, Israel, and a fellow at the Middle East Forum. He is the author of The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict (Continuum, 2010) and a columnist at the Jerusalem Post […]
Mass execution in public is common after coming to power of the Islamic Republic of Iran United Nation Special Rapporteur pointed out the dramatic rise in the number of executions in the past few weeks urged Iran to stop of this punishment. According to statistics, the number of executions has […]
![KCK announces democratic resolution declaration [UPDATED / Full version]](https://rojhelat.info/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/KCK-flag.png)
TO OUR PEOPLES AND DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC OPINION! The Kurdish question emerged as a result of the Turkish state’s policy of Turkification through its denial of the Kurds’ existence and subjecting them to cultural genocide. All the Kurds’ objections to this policy have been violently crushed. Once the Kurds had been […]
New Appeal – add your name to the list of supporters! To the UK government, the European Union and the Turkish Government The case for the delisting of the PKK is now quite overwhelming. We believe that the time is now right for all parties to consider this move in order […]
ANF, LONDON — Habibullah Gulperipur who was sentenced to death on charges of being a member of PJAK (Free Life Party of Kurdistan), was transferred from Semnan to Urmiye Prison in Iran last week. According to the report by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Gulperipur’s lawyer, Mesud […]
BBC, By Guney Yildiz — Rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have begun leaving south-eastern Turkey for their main bases in northern Iraq, but there is no talk of disarmament yet. Instead, several top commanders of the PKK have said they will keep and even consolidate their forces. So […]
Mme Christiane Taubira Ministère de la Justice 13, Place Vendôme 75042 Paris – Cedex 01 FRANCE 25 April 2013 Open Letter to Christiane Taubira, French Justice Minister Women call for Justice for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla Dear Mme Christiane Taubira, We are writing to you because we are sure, […]
LONDON — Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish Workers Party, or P.K.K., called for a ceasefire Thursday in the three-decade war between P.K.K and the Turkish state, giving a new impetus to New Year celebrations by Kurds. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds gathered in the eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir to […]
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 […]
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 […]
ANF, London — The Free Adem Uzun campaign has sent an open letter to French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira. In the letter the signatories state that “The arrest of the prominent Kurdish peace advocate Adem Uzun in Paris last year came as a great shock to us all as it coincided […]
Join the Friends of Adem Uzun Intitiative by Peace in Kurdistan Campaign and Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) UK FREE ADEM UZUN The Kurdish politician Adem Uzun was arrested in France on 6 October 2012. Having been denied bail, Adem remains in detention awaiting a trial which could be months […]
LONDON, England, — The eighty demonstrators marched to a rally outside the embassy of Cyprus, which holds the presidency of the European Union. They carried the Kurdish national flag. They want full Kurdish autonomy, and they are opposed to Turkish intervention in Syria. They want the overthrow of the Assad […]
REPORT, — Bellow is the latest in a series of personal reports written by members of a recent UK delegation to Istanbul. The delegation observed the continuation of the lawyers KCK trial, and included solicitor Ali Has, human rights lawyer Margaret Owen OBE, the Law Society’s Tony Fisher, and Bronwen […]
PIK, — Hundreds of Kurdish prisoners are now taking part in a hunger strike which they have declared is to be indefinite. This hunger strike began on 12 September, a not insignificant date in Turkey’s political history, with 63 people, including 13 women, in seven prisons. The numbers have grown […]
LONDON, England, — Kurdish Federation UK delivered an open letter to 10 Downing Street, urging PM David Cameron to take action to stop ongoing hunger strike launched by the Kurdish political prisoners which has entered its 52nd day today. The letter reads as follow: Dear Prime Minister, Over thousands of […]
PETITION, — Over 700 Kurdish political prisoners are currently on hunger strike in Turkey, with some of them now having refused food for 49 days. The situation is reaching a crisis point, and now around the world people are beginning to show their support for the strikers and their demands. A […]
LONDON, England, — The meeting will be addressed by Sinn Fein chairperson Declan Kearney, alongside a prominent cross-party panel of speakers. The meeting hosted by Sinn Fein MP Paul Maskey in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons on Wednesday 24 October, at 7pm. In recent months Sinn Fein has launched a […]
STATEMENT, — Your important Congress takes place at a crucial period for the future stability of Turkey and in the Middle East. Turkey is increasingly drawn into the conflict raging across the border in neighbouring Syria which shows no signs of abating. Meanwhile, internal repression against Kurdish and other political activists […]
Karthick RM, Countering insurgencies is as old as states and empires. As a concept, however, study in Counterinsurgency (COIN) gained momentum in the colonial period so as to deal with frequently occurring rebellions in colonies as well as to counter the “communist menace”. COIN grew as a science with late […]
Copyright © 2024 Rojhelat.info. All Rights Reserved.