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  • Iran executions send a chilling message

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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...
  • Amnesty International: Urgent Action for Berzani Karro

    Western Kurdistan: Berzani Karro, who was tortured in custody, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment for "attempting to sever part of the Syrian territory and annex it to a foreign state."   Berzani Karro was brought before a militar...
  • Syria: Kurdish political activist Mahmoud Safo arrested

    Western Kurdistan- According to Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF and the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights based in UK, the Syrian political security forces arrested Mahmoud Safo on 28 March 2010. He is a member of the Political Bureau of the K...
  • Why only certain children have chance to go university?

    Bawan Serdesht   The incident that makes the world goes around, closely followed by money (Osborne, 2009). According to this fact, it seems that economic controls the planet. It has always had the most considerable impacts on our lives, and it is the c...
  • Iran: Human Rights Emergency

    By Kenneth R. Timmerman   The Iranian regime thinks it is on a roll. Without so much as a whimper from the United States or Europe, it succeeded in brutally suppressing the Green movement during the latest round of protests on the anniversary of the re...
  • Turkey: Dispatching Troops to Southern Kurdistan by Coaches

    Turkish Military Forces continue to dispatch their troops to Kurdistan. This time they have sent their troops to the Southern Kurdistan using the inter-city civil coaches. Turkish Military forces have already sent troops and ammunition to the regions of ...
  • Iran: Hussein Xiziri’s Appeal Dismissed

    Eastern Kurdistan: To pressure the Kurdish human rights activists along with the imposition of the unfair charges upon them, the Iranian regime is even violating its own principles. Along the same line of policies the Iranian Court dismissed Hussein Xezir...
  • Turkey: Three Soldiers Killed in Operations

    Northern Kurdistan- Turkish Military Forces continue their operations in Kurdistan. Within an operation carried out near the fabricated-border of Southern and Northern Kurdistan three Turkish soldiers were killed Tuesday in a landmine explosion.   “T...
  • Iranian security forces severely tortured Hussein Mirzaii

    Eastern Kurdistan- a Kurdish political prisoner who has been detained by the Iranian Security Forces is in a critical and alarming state. Due to extensive tortures he has been receiving over the course last few months his life is at danger.   Hussein M...
  • Allawi: This is a Victory for All Iraqis

    London, Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat - Following the victory of the Iraqiya bloc in the recent Iraqi parliamentary elections, Iyad Allawi told Asharq Al-Awsat on the phone from Baghdad, “I congratulate the Iraqi people, and consider this victory a victory f...
  • Please sign the petition to save the life of Zeineb Celalyan

    Eastern Kurdistan- The execution of our youths has become a commonplace exercise for the Iranian theocratic regime. Now the Kurdish girl Zeineb Celalayan is waiting for her due execution. But your signature could make a huge difference.   Please do sig...
  • Kurdish girls and boys keep joining Guerrilla Forces

    Northern Kurdistan-In response to the mounting political and military operations of Turkish government in Kurdistan the Kurdish youths are heading to the mountains to join the guerrilla forces.   A special ceremony was held today in the Defence Regions...
  • Syria: Excessive Use of Force by the Security Forces during Newroz

    Press Release:   Oslo – Norway, March 23, 2010. Defend International condemns the killing of three Kurdish youth by Syrian security forces in the city of Ar-raqqah during the 2010 celebrations of Newroz, the Kurdish New Year. The Syrian government mu...
  • Belgian Court freed the Kurdish Politicians

    Brussels- the Belgian Court dismissed the allegations against the high profile Kurdish politicians Dr. Remzi Kartal, Mr. Zobeyr Aydar and four other Kurdish politicians arrested in 4th March.   The Belgian Court stated that it would wait for the High C...
  • Machine-guns against demonstrators in Syria

    Machine-guns against demonstrators: Syrian security forces shoot three Kurds at Nowruz celebrations – 50 injured   The Society for Threatened Peoples  25/03/2010 00:00:00   Syrian security forces shot three Kurds and injured at least 50 at the be...
  • PKK could resume hostilities if political route fails

    The Defence Regions of Medya (Qandil Mountains)- Murad Karayilan the Tead of Kurdistan Con-federal System (KCK) told Reuters that they could end a truce and renew fighting against Turkish forces because a ban of Turkey's main Kurdish party has made a poli...