Category: Report
Basnews Agency: “PJAK killed 13-year-old Asrin”
A report by the Barzani-affiliated Basnews Agency has investigated the kidnapping of Kurdish children by the PKK / PJAK. The report of this news agency states that “PKK abducts, arms the Kurdish children in Iranian Kurdistan and kills those who try to escape.” The report goes on to say, “According to information received by Basnews, […]
Human rights activists protest PJAK crimes against women
According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW), a large group of human rights and civil society activists took part in a Twitter storm at the invitation of the IKHRW on Saturday, December 27, 2016, coinciding with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. To protest against the violation of human […]
Mehmet Bulovali: Every day we see escape stories of PKK members
Mehmet Bulovali, an Iraqi-Kurdish political analyst, who was born and grew up in Kirkuk, an oil-rich city regarded as Jerusalem for the Kurd, says: “People [particularly, the Kurds] have been tired of PKK’s armed campaign. In the past, I would not hear much that people were escaping from the Qandil mountains [the mountain headquarters of […]
Medya Nasreddin in Qamishlo: PKK must return the abducted children
Medya Nasreddin, co-chair of the Office for the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict, said the kidnapped children for the armed forces must be returned, otherwise we will set up a mechanism to prosecute the perpetrators of the abduction. The office held a press conference at the headquarters of the Social Affairs Department of the […]
List of arrested journalists in Kurdistan Region
On its Twitter account, Kurdistan Watch has published a list of names and photos of journalists arrested in the Kurdistan Region. Citing the journalists and their whereabouts, Kurdistan Watch writes that these people have been arrested in the past few months because of the suppression of expreession freedom and they criticize the policies of the […]
Barzani’s advisor: PKK must be expelled from Shangal
The adviser to the preseident of the Kurdistan Regional Government on Yazidi Kurdish affairs says Baghdad and Erbil are coordinating more to normalize the situation in Sinjar/Shangal and expel foreign armed groups. Sheikh Shamo says that according to the UN Special Representative for Iraq, the Shangal Peace Congress will be held next month. Sheikh Shamo […]
Massoud Adi: PKK must stop using violence and weapons
A Syrian Kurdish political activist asked the PKK to stop using violence and weapons and not kill people anymore. And the presence of the PKK in the KRG is in Turkey’s favor. Massoud Adi added, “The presence of the PKK has never been legal in the Kurdistan Region, especially in any way it is a […]
Ali Aouni: “Kurdish MPs have moral problems”
Ali Aouni, a leading member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), says the Kurdish MPs opposing Baghdad for sending the salary budget to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) fear the Iraqi Government and they tryto prevent the moneyto be sent. He added that the issue of paying employees’ salaries by a central government bank instead […]
Fatih Cosmic: “Demirtas is a terrorist in collar and tie”
A political activist on his Twitter account referred to the history of Selaheddin Demirtash, the former leader of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), supporting the PKK and publkished some shared photos of Demirtash with the PKK leaders. He called Demirtash a “terrorist” and wrote to Kenneth Ruth in Human Rights Watch: “These are the images […]
Adile Buse: “Demirtash is a supporter of terrorism.”
A human rights activist criticizes the Turkish government’s policy of not dealing decisively with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the political wing of the PKK, in the parliament of that country, she criticizes and writes: “If there was real justice, after revealing how the HDP cooperated in kidnapping children for PKK, it must be closed […]