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Racist group of 300 attacks Kurdish family in Antalya, chanting: “Kurds, leave our lands”.
Seasonal agricultural workers living in the village of Bayralar in Elmalı, province of Antalya had to leave the village after being attacked and threatened by a racist group of 300 people for two days. Speaking to local media about the incident, Servet Kurğa said that they had been attacked by a racist group for two […]
The Children of Fire initiative claims responsibility for Turkey’s fires
The Children of Fire initiative in Turkey has claimed responsibility for igniting fires in the country.
Extreme racism: Seven Kurds killed in attack on family home in rural Turkey
Seven members of a Kurdish family were killed Friday in Konya, central Turkey, by armed assailants who tried to burn their house in what rights activists said was a racist attack. Among them were three women.
Boat carrying Kurds capsized in sea west of Antalya’s Kaş: Iranian Kurdish woman missing
A boat carrying 45 migrants mostly Kurds from the Kurdistan Region capsized in the sea west of the seaside town of Kaş in Antalya province, a migrant monitor said on Friday (July 23). An Iranian Kurdish woman is still missing.
Iraqi Kurdish Nepotism Reaches a New Peak
Chraxan Rafiq, ex wife of former Iraqi Kurdish Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami, in an exclusive interview says "Nechirvan Barzani threatened me to kill me if I do not divorce Ashti Hawrami" as Masoud Barzani had said she is a problem to oil dossier.
Is Turkey pushing Iraqi Kurds towards a new civil war?
Turkey is running the risk of sparking a new intra-Kurdish conflict in northern Iraq by pushing the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to deepen its involvement in Ankara’s campaign against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), pro-Kurdish activist Sarah Glynn stated in a recent podcast.
PKK attacks Peshmerga fighters near Matina mountain, according to KRG official
The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs alleged that Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters fired at a Peshmerga unit operating near Duhok governorate’s Matin Mountain early on Saturday morning (July 24).
Assassination of a former PJAK member in Sulaimaniyah
A former PJAK member was killed by unknown individuals at his workplace in an industrial area of the Jaleh Sulaimaniyah neighborhood in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Turkey accused of bulldozing cemetery to create ‘mass grave’ – analysis
Turkey’s state media claimed last week that a “mass grave” of 61 bodies was found in Afrin in Syria, an area that Turkey illegally occupies and which it ethnically cleansed of Kurds in 2018. The Turkish state media claims, without any evidence that “the victims were executed by the US-backed PKK/YPG terrorist organization.”
Belgian parliament votes to recognize ISIS crimes against Yezidis as genocide
The majority of lawmakers in the Belgian parliament on Thursday voted to officially recognize ISIS crimes against the Yezidi (Ezidi) religious community in Iraq beginning in 2014 as genocide, local Belgian media reported.