Filmmaker Keywan Karimi PEN International is seriously concerned for the health of imprisoned filmmaker Keywan Karimi. The prominent Kurdish filmmaker, who has been in prison since 23 November 2016, is in need of urgent medical...
Ankara has fought ethnic Kurdish militias within its borders for decades to prevent the birth of a new country, Kurdistan, carved out of Turkey itself. So it has watched carefully as YPG fighters secure large...
According to a recent public statement by the HDP party, 1,478 Kurdish politicians — including 78 democratically-elected mayors — have been arrested since July 2016. The co-heads of the HDP, Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksektas,...
Lazem Hassan Faraji, A Kurdish political prisoner from Bukan, Rojhelat (Kurdistan under Iran rule)has spent his life behind the bars for more than five years under the charge of connection with Kurdish political parties. He...
Colonial Britain had a massive interest in the Kurds and Kurdistan. Their later occupation of Mesopotamia gave British political intelligence officers lots of work to do amongst the Kurdish people. Amongst these officers was Major...
One of the PKK leaders has called to change Iranian regime. According to the ANF media, “The Kurdish people are struggling against those inhumane practices to gain a freer live, become their own master and...
Ordered by the local gendarmerie command in Turkey’s Şırnak province, village guards cut down thousands of fruit trees in the province due to security reasons, a daily reported on Monday. According to Evrensel, thousands of...
Price of opposing tyranny
Turkey threatens to strike U.S. forces partnered with Kurds. According to the Washington Times, the war of words between Washington and Ankara over the U.S. military’s partnership with Kurdish paramilitaries in Syria escalated Wednesday, when...
In this report who has been prepared by Iranian dissidents, strangely name main Kurdish Human Right activist presently jailed in Iran are missing. Mohammad Sediq Kaboodvand, Afshin SohrabZadeh and Zeynab Jalalian are among removed names....