At around 5:30 P.M. on October 8, six people were killed and 21 wounded when militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ambushed a bus carrying police personnel in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir. Eye-witnesses reported that the assailants hurled hand...
ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey’s leaders met Thursday to discuss increasing the military’s powers to combat Kurdish rebels following a surge in attacks, some launched from rebel bases in northern Iraq.Turkey’s parliament already voted Wednesday to extend the...
On July 22, 2008, the Iraqi Parliament ratified the Provincial Elections bill. Article 50 of this law provided seats in provincial government to minority groups, such as the Yezidi, Shabak, Assyrian, and Sabaean. Although the seats under Article 50 did not...
On September 30 simmering ethnic tensions between Turks and Kurds in the town of Altinova in the western province of Balikesir erupted into violence as stores, automobiles, homes, and workplaces belonging to ethnic Kurds were attacked after a Kurdish youth drove a...
More than 200 Kurdish activists in detention in Iran went on a hunger strike Aug. 25 to protest their treatment and sentences imposed by authorities in Tehran.The letter asks the international community to compel Iran to adhere to internationally recognized human...
The Syrian Kurdish human rights worker Mashal Tamo is threatened with life imprisonment and hard labour according to information received by the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV). In accordance with Paragraph 298 of the Syrian constitution he will be sentenced to...
