May 17, 2010 DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, May 17 (UPI) — Kurdish lawmakers in Turkey warned of dire consequences if Ankara continued its perceived policy of aggression against the ethnic minority community.Security forces stopped members of the pro-Kurdish Peace and...
When four Kurdish activists, including a woman, were hanged last week in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, it was almost two decades since the final round of full-scale military confrontation between main Kurdish parties and the Iranian regime had ceased, but the...
We at the Kurdish PEN Centre believe that the killing and execution of freedom loving intellectuals who follow a peaceful path to practice their rights is a horrific act very far from the principles of humanity.According to the known international standards such acts...
Mahdieh Golroo, an imprisoned member of the Right to Education Council has written a letter in memory of her cellmate executed political prisoner Shirin Alam Hooli. You were with us and now you are gone without us; like the scent of a flower. Where did you go?We...
Only because he is admitted into a London hospital Zaher survives his severe burns. In 1976 he ends up in the Netherlands as a refugee. Will Zaher Mahmud be able to pick up his life again or will the ideas and spectres from his youth continue to hunt him?titel :...
The family and friends of the journalist, Zardasht Osman, 23, said he was killed because of his scathing articles about the region’s two governing parties and its leaders, including the dominant Barzani family. Mr. Osman was a university student who freelanced...
