Leyla Zana is an outspoken critic of Turkey’s evident discrimination against the Kurdish minority. She has been fighting for Kurdish human rights for many years and was previously imprisoned for...
Istanbul, 1 Dec. (AKI) – A prosecutor in southern Turkey on Monday charged six children for attacking police with stones in a recent street protest in support of Kurdish separatists. According t...
Appeal to Save Kurdish Social Activist from Death Sentence: Write to Iranian leaders to stop the execution of Farzad Kamangar, a 32 year old Kurdish teacher and social activist, sentenced to death fol...
The Kurdish population of the Middle East has always been silenced and generally banned/discouraged from participating in mainstream media outlets. We can still see this through the wave of Kurdish jo...
Saddam Hussein’s regime was perhaps mostly known for its ongoing genocide of Kurds, one of the darkest moments of Kurdish history. Recently, the remains of 150 Kurds who were victims of this sys...
From Reporters Without Borders: A Tehran appeal court has upheld the 11-year prison sentence that was imposed on journalist Mohammad Sadegh Kabovand for creating a human rights organisation in Iranâ�...
The Middle East News reports: Unknown gunmen shot dead a 28-year old journalist [Dyar Abbas Ahmed] and an artist on Friday in the northern province of Kirkuk, according to Iraqi police sources. CNN re...
Reports from AKI and independent Kurdish media sources highlight the arrest of another Kurdish female activist in Iran. Iran: Kurdish feminist arrested Tehran, 7 Oct. (AKI) – Kurdish feminist an...