For 10 years the “Saturday mothers” and “Peace mothers”, human rights groups and members of groups such as IHD, TIHV and MEYA-Der have been seeking under the hardest conditions a resolution to the massacres by the Turkish army in the regions of...
In Iran, minorities don’t have the right to teach their native tongue or to express their culture in public. Political expression and freedom of speech are both banned. Execution or imprisonment awaits those who defend human rights. Iran’s system can be...
Your Excellencies: The Kurdish mayor of SUR Abdullah Demirbas was arrested on December 24th 2009 because of his struggle to encourage multiculturalism and languages in Diyarbakir .He was sentenced to a long time prison penal. The poor conditions in the...
BIANET 5.9.2011. In the “Democratic Solution Protocol” presented at their annual General Convention, the pro-Kurdish BDP announced a road map to regional autonomy and stated a number of main issues to be included in the new constitution. The 2nd Regular...
TEHRAN- "We believe that any kind of presence around our borders by countries from outside the region will not improve security in the region but will actually do the opposite," the official IRNA news agency quoted deputy foreign minister for consular...
(Beirut) – Iran and Turkey’s cross-border attacks in Iraqi Kurdistan [2] have killed at least 10 civilians and displaced hundreds since mid-July 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. Some of the attacks may have been carried out without sufficient attempts...