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• Iran: Kurdish political prisoners’ huger-strike reached it 3th day

  Created: Saturday, 10 April 2010 21:12

  Eastern Kurdistan- Urmiye: According to our news correspondence from the Eastern Kurdistan the prison officials of Urmiye have through one of their agents named Bayiz Salari started to distribute addictive drugs among the political prisoners. The intentio...

• KHRP’s report on the mistreatments of the Kurds in Syria

  Created: Saturday, 10 April 2010 17:05

  Kurdish Human Rights Project 11 Guilford Street LondonWC1N 1DH     KURDISH HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT The Kurdish Human Rights Project (‘KHRP’) is an independent, non-political, non-governmental human rights organisation founded in 1992 and based in...

• Turkey: 7 soldiers killed by mines planted by Turkish Army, not by PKK

  Created: Friday, 09 April 2010 16:13

  Northern Kurdistan- Van: That was confirmed by the Turkish Military that the mines that killed seven Turkish soldiers last year belonged to the military and were not planted by Kurdish guerrillas, Turkish media reported Friday.   According to prosecuto...

• Turkey: Leyla Zana Sentenced to 3 Years Imprisonment

  Created: Thursday, 08 April 2010 18:37

  Northern Kurdistan- Diyarbakir: the final trail of the Kurdish female politician Leyla Zana was ended on Thursday morning. The Diyarbakir Court sentenced her to 3 years imprisonment for supporting the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK).   In a speech, Leyla ...

• Lieberman criticized Turkey on dealing with the Kurds

  Created: Wednesday, 07 April 2010 21:39

  Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman criticized Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday for his increasingly antagonism toward Israel. Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman claimed that the Turkish leader was "turning into a...

• London: Seminar on Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide

  Created: Tuesday, 06 April 2010 23:57

  Seminar on Nationalism and Genocide   The case of Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide Speakers: Author Recep Marasli and Dr. Choman Hardi Date: 22nd April 2010 Time: 19:00pm Venue: G2, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Univer...

• Turkey: the shelling of Kurdistan continue

  Created: Tuesday, 06 April 2010 18:30

  The Defence Regions of Medya (Qendil Mountains): The Turkish Artilleries launched a series of offensives against Kurdistan and they resumed the shelling of the Zap and Metinan in the Defence Regions of Medya.   In the meantime the Turkish military oper...

• Turkey: Kurdish "Peace Groups" face 127.5 years imprisonment

  Created: Tuesday, 06 April 2010 18:13

  Northern Kurdistan- Diyarbekir: The Turkish Prosecution requested the total of 127.5 years imprisonment for 17 members of the Kurdish "Peace Groups" that were sent to Turkey in 2009 upon a call from Kurdish national leader Abduallah Ocalan.   The Kurdi...

• Iran: military operations have been initiated

  Created: Monday, 05 April 2010 19:38

  Eastern Kurdistan: the contra-guerrilla operations have been initiated and are expanding.   The Democratic Press Union of the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) released a statement regarding the recent raids of the contra-guerrilla groups on the loca...

• Kurds march in Brussels in 61th birthday of Ocalan

  Created: Sunday, 04 April 2010 19:13

  Brussels: Over hundred thousands of Kurds marched in Brussels to celebrate the 61th birthday of Kurdish national leader Mr. Abdullah Ocalan and the 6th anniversary of the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK).   The Kurds all over Europe convened in Brus...

• Iran: Another Kurd Dead Under Torture

  Created: Saturday, 03 April 2010 22:34

  Eastern Kurdistan- Xane: The Iranian Intelligent Agents killed another Kurd under torture.   According to the report by the European Human Rights Organisation Tahir Ahmedi from the city of Xane was arrested by the Intelligent Office due to his alleged ...

• From the depth of the grave to the heart of the Sun

  Created: Saturday, 03 April 2010 01:12

  Sherko Jahani   Stone graves in Kurdistan are the oldest stone graves in the world. The Median Kings or the other high ranking figures of the Median Empire were buried among the rocks and the mountains. Because the Median revered the soil as much as th...

• Society continues to be based on the patriarchal oppression of women

  Created: Friday, 02 April 2010 22:20

  Bawan Serdesht   The American Feminist Naomi Wolf believes that 1990s should be seen as “the era of the gender quake” which is translated by Bryson as the “change in meaning of being women forever”. For instance, in 1995 in the Beijing World Co...

• Iranian Police Forces attacked a peaceful demonstration

  Created: Friday, 02 April 2010 20:37

  Eastern Kurdistan-Urmiye: According to the local participants in the demonstration the Iranian Police Forces and the dissidents clashed in the city of Urmiye.   On Friday morning hundreds of the local people gathered to express their discontent about ...

• Iran sends weapon to Taliban fighters

  Created: Thursday, 01 April 2010 16:57

  Reuter News: Iran is having a growing negative influence in its neighbour Afghanistan, United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen said on Wednesday, citing what he said was a shipment of Iranian arms to fighters. The United S...

• Iran executions send a chilling message

  Created: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 23:27

  Recent developments in Iran have prompted fears that the Iranian authorities are once more using executions as a tool to try and quell political unrest, intimidate the population and send a signal that dissent will not be tolerated. There was a noticeabl...

• Karayilan: even if I’m killed, there hundreds to replenish

  Created: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 18:01

  The Defence Regions of Medya: the Turkish government is adamant in carrying out its conspiracies against the Kurdish freedom movement. That was found out that the Turkish authorities have sought the American aids to annihilate the leadership of the Kurdis...

• Allawi criticizes Iranian interferences in Iraqi affairs

  Created: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 17:39

  Baghdad (NINA) –The head of the Iraqiya Slate Ayad Allawi criticized "The Iranian interferences in Iraqi affairs," noting that "Neither Iran nor other countries can impose their will on Iraq." In his speech at a ceremony held to celebrate his Slate win...

• Iran: A Kurdish worker shot dead by Iranian Forces

  Created: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 14:04

  Eastern Kurdistan-Shandereh; The Iranian Military Forces shot dead a Kurdish worker from Shandereh village in the Sardasht area of West Azerbaijan Province of Eastern Kurdistan. The Kurdish worker Ribwar Nossrati was instantly killed when he was shot.  ...

• Written question about al-Raqqa killings put to European Parliament

  Created: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 10:48

  Emma McClarkin Member of European Parliament from UK raised a written question on 23 March 2010 to the Commission of the European Parliament following the Newroz shooting at al-Raqqa in Syria. She said she had been following the killing of Kurds in the Ku...