Category: Interview
Brother of killed PJAK member: No obituary to be found, yet PJAK claims Ibrahim Yazdi is dead
Ebrahim Yazdi is one of hundreds of young Iranian Kurds who were deceived by PJAK and joined this armed group, and there is no news about him now. PJAK claims that he was killed in the war with Turkey, but did not return his body to his family or determine his burial place. Strange enough, […]
Aram Ehmed: Just fly to that area and ask “Who wants to come to Europe with me?”
Thousands of Kurdish migrants, including women and small children, are still trapped in the forests and swamps of the border region of Belarus and Poland with limited food, drink or medical care. They are desperately waiting for a chance to enter the European Union. Most of them come from the Iraqi autonomous region of Kurdistan, […]
Father of Danial Doosti: PJAK has kidnapped my 14-year-old son
Danial Doosti was born in 2000 in a village near Mariwan, Kurdistan province of Iran. Danial is one of the hundreds of Iranian Kurdish minors that have disappeared throughout the years as a result of PJAK’s recruitment policies, that include filling certain quotas ordered by Qandil to the smaller groups roaming the region, by recruiting […]
Bayan Ahmadi: Victim of PJAK’s policy of deception
According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, Bayan Ahmadi was born in 1991 in Marivan. Her fate has been left unclear by PJAK ever since she was tricked into joining the group, and neither has the group published any information about the fate of this Iranian girl. In an interview with IKHRW’s reporter, Bayan […]
Father of Bahman Orami: PJAK is responsible for my son’s death
Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch has interviewed Bahman Orami Asl’s family in two stages. Bahman Orami is one of the killed members of PJAK, whose story of deception and death was recently raised by IKHRW. Bahman is also one of the hundreds of victims of poverty in the border areas of the country, victims who […]
Qasim Shasho: 900 PKK members defect to Peshmerga
The PKK’s armed forces continue to defect and enter the Peshmerga ranks from Sinjar, with PKK militants contacting the Peshmerga daily, reaching more than 900 today. Qasim Shasho, commander of the Sinjar Peshmerga forces (affiliated to KDP), told our reporter that the arrival of PKK militants in the Peshmerga ranks is continuing, and so far […]
Unsuccessful trip of an Iranian Kurdish family to Turkey to retrieve their child’s body
According to Kurdish media in Turkey, an Iranian Kurdish family traveled from Iran to Turkey three times to receive their son’s body, but Turkish authorities have not yet delivered it to them. The young man was a member of the PKK armed group who was killed in Sirnak. An Iranian Kurdish woman, Shoret Nurizadê, […]
Majid Dalaei Milan; An Iranian from Maku who was sent to die in Diyarbekir, 1000 km’s from home
IKHRW has reported on many cases wherein the PKK and PJAK (Iranian branch of PKK) seek to provide the manpower it needs by manipulating underage locals in border regions and deprived villages. It attracts these youngsters coming of age in a region without the possibilities it requires, by promising these people better jobs, education and […]
Brother of Bahman Orami: Why should my brother be killed in a war with Turkey?
Bahman Orami is one of the killed members of PJAK, whose story of deception and death was recently raised by the Human Rights Watch of Iranian Kurdistan. In an interview with our local observers, his brother made important points about his brother’s fate and the exact cause of his death. He, who himself works as […]
Bahman Orami; Child Soldier victim of PJAK terrorism
An important question that Kurdish experts always face is why in the important conflicts of the last few years between the PKK and its affiliates in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey, why are there always children involved? Countless reports have emerged over the years of child soldiers in North-East Syria, in the fight against Turkey, […]