The entire country’s eyes were fixed on the board, expecting it to resolve the political turmoil sparked by its veto of 12 mostly Kurdish candidates’ bids to run for Parliament.The YSK announced in a press statement that no obstacles remained to the...
A Kurdish man, Sherko Moarefi, is scheduled to be executed on 1 May, in the western Iranian province of Kordestan. He was convicted of “enmity against God” (moharebeh) for his purported membership of a proscribed Kurdish opposition group. Sherko Moarefi...
Anfal Campaign or the Kurdish Genocide was conducted with the Western weapons in Southern Kurdistan (north-Iraq) during the 1980s.Ali Hassan Majid the Saddam Hussein’s cousin is known as “Chemical Ali” following the mass-killing of Kurdish civilians...
Ozgur Gundem (Free Agenda) newspaper, whose 27 employees were murdered before being closed in 1994, has resumed publication today.While the newspaper took its place at distributors today, Firat Distribution employees, going from door to door at early morning hours,...
The people in Syria went on the streets in Daraa, Damascus, Lattakia, Homs, Qamishli and many other cities and showed their will to have change in their country. They said no to the massive violation of Human Rights, no to corruption, no to dictatorship.The Syrians...
Kurds in Turkey: the everyday violence of their forced displacement. Roughly fifteen years ago, more than one million Kurds were forcibly displaced from their villages in Southeast Turkey, mostly by Turkish security troops, who were engaged in a violent struggle with...
