Lenya Rún Taha Karim, a 22-year-old law student, was sworn in as the first ethnic Kurdish lawmaker on Monday in the Icelandic parliament, known as the Alþingi. Karim was third on the libertarian Pirate Party’s list for the Reykjavík North district and was initially celebrated as the youngest person to win a seat in the […]

Ten years have passed since the massacre of 34 Kurdish people, mostly children, in the village of Roboski, south-east Turkey, but memories of the massacre remain vivid in the minds of the victims’ families. At 21.39 on December 28, 2011, disaster struck and in an instant the village lost its youth when they became victim […]

he Turkish authorities are failing to follow up on the murder of an Iranian Kurdish citizen, based on exclusive documents published online, and what his family has said. Abdollah Teymouri was found dead in Istanbul around two years ago, after legally traveling there from Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. The 23-year-old pharmacy graduate […]

According to two shared documents, the son of the President of South Kurdistan, Idris Nechirvan Barzani is selling his stake in the International Bank of Kurdistan for 39 billion and 600 million dinars. Both documents presented to the Iraqi Stock Exchange by the Bank of Kurdistan state the sale of Idris Nechirvan Barzani’s share, and […]

In a special note to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, a former PJAK member examines the forced disappearance and death of Iranian Kurdish teenagers in the PJAK / PKK terrorist group, and provides the watchdog with specific information about them. It is worth mentioning that all this information has been obtained from the official […]

In a special note to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, a former PJAK member examines the forced disappearance and death of Iranian Kurdish teenagers in the PJAK / PKK terrorist group, and provides the watchdog with specific information about them. It is worth mentioning that all this information has been obtained from the official […]

In a special note to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, a former PJAK member examines the forced disappearance and death of Iranian Kurdish teenagers in the PJAK / PKK terrorist group, and provides the watchdog with specific information about them. It is worth mentioning that all this information has been obtained from the official […]

In a special note to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, a former PJAK member examines the forced disappearance and death of Iranian Kurdish teenagers in the PJAK / PKK terrorist group, and provides the watchdog with specific information about them. It is worth mentioning that all this information has been obtained from the official […]

The Paris prosecutor’s office said it has received a manslaughter lawsuit for failure to help in the tragic capsizing last month of a boat in the English Channel that cost the lives of at least 27 people trying to reach Britain. The manslaughter lawsuit, filed Friday by the French humanitarian organization Utopia 56, accuses the […]

Turkey is being accused of pressuring organizers of a film festival in the city of Sulaimaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan to cancel the screening of an award-winning entry depicting the resistance put up by an affiliated youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) against the Turkish army during its three-month-long siege of Sur, the […]