In the fight between Iran and Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) has killed two villagers two days ago; has killed tens of villagers in the last few months; and has forced more than 800 Iraqi Kurds to flee …
Posted in Displacements, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Protests, Reports | Comments Off on Iranian shelling kills civilians in KurdistanQIZLHASAR, Iran — Kamil Fethullahi a Kurdish civil activist from the suburb of Pawe who had been held in Qizlhasar Detention was killed under torture. Not long ago he was arrested in his accommodation in Tehran by a group of …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Executions, Human Rights Watch, Iran, Kurdistan, Reports, Terror, Torture | Comments Off on Iran killed a Kurdish activist under tortureFor over 50 years, over 300,000 Kurds in Syria were labeled foreigners in a 1963-census that was carried out in an arbitrary manner which restricted the “foreigner” Kurds acquiring employment, education, health, property, or even marriage. The government has banned …
Posted in Activism, Arabic, Culture, Discrimination, Displacements, Human Rights Watch, Kurdistan, Suppression, Syria | Comments Off on Kurds in Syria Granted Citizenship: What Now?The 25-year-old American journalist from New Hampshire, Jake Hess, was released by Turkish authorities this week and was deported back to the United States. Hess was recently arrested in Turkey after authorities accused him of having links with the outlawed …
Posted in Censorship, Displacements, Free speech, Kurdish Human Rights Project, Political Prisoners, Reports, Suppression, Turkey, Violence | 1 CommentOpinion piece cross-posted from MideastYouth.com, written by Behar. The hypocrisy of the world never ceases to amaze me! In the world of politics, it’s all but expected that a nation should pursue its own interests at the cost of others, …
Posted in Culture, Discrimination, Displacements, Genocide, Turkey | Comments Off on Opinion: The Hypocrisy of Defending TurkeyAn Iraqi Kurdish official of the region’s security forces, Lt. Saleh Ahmed, told the Associated Press on Monday that Iranian troops with artillery and tanks crossed the border to set up a military outpost in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. Reports indicate …
Posted in Displacements, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Violence | Comments Off on Iranian troops build illegal outpost inside Iraqi Kurdistan: Iraqi Kurdish OfficialA 14-year-old girl, Basoz Jabar Agha, was killed Sunday after heavy bombardments by the Iranian military. Iran has been bombing the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for at least 12 consecutive days under the pretext of fighting Kurdish rebels belonging to …
Posted in Displacements, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Violence, Youth | Comments Off on Child is killed and dozens of families flee Iranian attacks on Iraqi KurdistanThe recent decision by Turkey’s parliament to authorize the Turkish military to conduct military raids across the Iraqi border, allegedly to combat PKK militants, wasn’t met with any significant reaction from the world community. Kurdish politicians in Iraq have voiced …
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