Turkish President claims Finland and Sweden are “almost like guesthouses for terrorists” around concerns over outlawed Kurdish PKK group.   Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the two Nordic nations should not bother sending delegations to convince Turkey, a key Nato member, of their bids. He is angered by what he sees as their willingness to host […]

“The 15th of May, according to the PKK, is the day of the killing of “Hakki Karer” and the beginning of a group called “PKK”. Every year, a celebration is held in the name of Hakki and the beginning of today’s movement to establish the PKK is led by the group’s leadership. However, 43 years […]

According to the information received and verified by the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, “Monira Mina” that carried the nom de guerre “Golchin Didar”, is an apparently deceased PJAK member, from Khoy. According to this information, she was born in the city of Qotur, Khoy district, into a poor, rural family. Her father’s name was […]

In the wake of recent tensions between the Iraqi federal government and the Kurdistan Region over oil and gas exports, Al-Sabah reported, citing informed sources, that Erbil was seeking to invest in the Sulaimaniyah gas sector with the aim of exporting it. The newspaper added that Sulaimaniyah officials opposed the decision and called on Baghdad, […]

The fact that the families of the deceived or abducted members of PJAK (Iranian Kurds) want their voices to be heard, their pain to be seen, and then someone or people to come to their aid and heal their many problems, is a matter to be reckoned with. IKHRW asks the armed group to recognize […]

Two German lawyers have applied to the country’s Interior Ministry to lift a 29-year ban that restricts all kinds of activities of PKK in Germany, while a spokesperson said the ministry has “no intention to take such a decision.” PKK-affiliated organizations in the country have appealed the public to protest this ban throughout the last […]

Intense exchange of fire has occurred in the last few hours between the Turkish artillery and that of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) in northeastern Syria, according to reports from the National Observatory for Human Rights in Syria. An intense exchange of fire took place in the last few hours between the Turkish artillery and […]

Two far-leftist groups with alleged links to the Kurdish militant group PKK carried out two bombings in Turkey this week, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Friday. A prison guard was killed in an explosion that hit a bus in Turkey’s northwestern province of Bursa on Wednesday. A day later, an attacker placed a bomb […]

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) kidnapped a senior member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party on Thursday. Mohammed Shah Marwan is the deputy head of the PUK’s party headquarters in Raparin and a prominent former official of the PUK’s Zanyari (Intelligence). Marwan, accompanied by a close companion, was visiting his hometown of Razhi […]

For many years, the people of the border regions, and underdeveloped areas of the country, have been living in unfavorable conditions and have the least facilities and equipment for welfare, education, and so on. Water, electricity, gas, internet and telephone, school and university and many other examples that can be mentioned are either non-existent or […]