Category: Report
A letter to the Special Reporter on the Right to the Highest Standards of Physical and Mental Health of the United Nations
Dear Mr. Dainius Pūras, To the Special Reporter on the Right to the Highest Standards of Physical and Mental Health of the United Nations. The Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW) was established in 2018 as an institution for humanitarian, non-governmental, and non-profit human rights organizations with the aim of protecting the rights of Iranian […]
Zini Werta: PUK deescalates the situation
After a military stand-off between KDP, PUK and PKK in the Zini Werta area, PUK has decided to deescalate the situation. Even though KDP invaded PUK territory here, setting up a KDP checkpoint only meters from a PKK camp and gave coordinates to Turkey which led to airstrikes, PUK decided not to be lured into […]
YPG /PKK spokesman calls all people in Idlib terrorists
Translated from German by IKHRW Some 2 million people in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib are “terrorists” and should be killed, according to a so-called press officer of the YPG/PKK terrorist group, named Ibrahim Ibrahim, a kurd originally from Afrin. . The World Health Organization providing the people of Idlib with medical aid to […]
Turkey bombs Makhmour camp
Makhmur Refugee Camp, which was founded in 1998, lies in the Makhmour district of North Iraq. It hosts about 12,000 Kurdish pro-PKK refugees, who fled the civil war between the PKK and the Turkish state in the 1990s. Reportedly, several Iranian families with PKK ties have been tricked and moved to Makhmour Camp in the […]
Syria’s oil is pouring through the streets of Rimeylan
A very large part of Syria’s oil reserves are located in North-East Syria, in areas that are occupied by the PYD/PKK forces. As Syria has been under embargo for years and the economic crisis hits Syria even harder, its oil is pouring through the streets of Rimeylan, a small town near the Iraqi border which […]
German government officially recognizes PYD as PKK in refusal letter to Syrian refugee
A Syrian man of Kurdish origin, called Fawaz Ayo, fled to Germany last year. In the district Verden, he applied for a residency permit for refugees. During his application time, Ayo has visited multiple PYD meetings. This week, Ayo has received a refusal letter concerning his application. The letter states the following: “Dear Mr. AYO, […]
People of Deir ez-Zor transferred their complaints to SDF official
A meeting took place on Sunday 12-4-2020, in the municipality building in the town of Al-Sousa in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which included an official from the self-administration (a senior PKK member called Zinar, a man from Qamishlo that has been in the mountains for years) and the heads of the councils of […]
Barzani-Turkish ties reconfirmed: Peshmerga Roj fighting in Libya
Peshmerga Roj is a KDP-backed militia that is formed and trained in KDP areas of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. At its formation, it was meant to be a force that could counter the YPG in North-Syria. It was made up from Syrian Kurdish refugees and PKK defects that had surrendered themselves to KDP in […]
KRG sends COVID-19 test equipment to YPG/PKK
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has sent medical equipment to the YPG/PKK terrorist group to aid in its fight against COVID-19 in northern Syria, according to a statement Monday by YPG ringleader Ferhat Abdi Şahin, codenamed Mazloum Kobani. “I would like to present my thanks and gratitude for KRG President Nechirvan Barzani, who immediately and […]
Erdogan and Israel: friends or foes?
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s sending medical aid to counter coronavirus to Israel raises many questions for observers and analysts who see that Erdogan is attacking Israel in the media outlets while providing it assistance behind the scenes. Several media sources have spoken of talks between Turkey and Israel regarding sending a shipment of Turkish […]