Tag Archives: BARZANI
Ramzi Kartal: “Barzani is the executor of the Turkey-US projects”
Ramzi Kartal, co-chair of the PKK-affiliated People’s Congress (Kongra-Gel), told Hawar that the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), led by Massoud Barzani, is the host of Turkish and US programs in the region. This PKK official said “The United States, especially through NATO, is leading Turkey against the PKK”. In this regard, the role of the […]
Two Kurdish MP called for a cut in the KRG budget again
A Kurdish news website in the Kurdistan Region reported that two Kurdish members of the Iraqi parliament had asked the central government not to send 320 billion dinars as salaries to the Kurdistan Region. Yesterday, Iraqi government spokesman Ahmad Talal announced that they were committed to the Baghdad-Erbil agreement to send 320 billion dinars as […]
A letter to Massoud Barzani
To Mr. Massoud Barzani, Chairman of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), As you know, this is not the first time that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has caused insecurity, instability and violence in the region, including in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The history of insecurity and violence by this organization dates back to 1980s, […]
Abdullah Hawez: More PKK die in the KRG than inside Turkey
Abdulla Hawez, a Kurdish analyst who writes exclusively on Kurdish issue, made an important point on his Twitter account that has received less attention. The Kurdish analyst writes, “Since 2020, the number of PKK casualties in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been higher than in Turkey itself since the beginning of the armed uprising […]
Barzani bribes the Pentagon
Bribing one politician is bad. Bribing all the politicians is worse. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a group of companies in Kurdistan, Iraq’s semi-independent northern region, that appears to be doing the latter in order to secure a monopoly on Pentagon fuel contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. A previous investigation outlined […]
Shivan Fateh: Lahor Sheikh Jangi seeks the collapse of the KRG
The history of differences between Iraqi Kurdish political and armed parties and groups dates back decades ago. At middle of Mullah Mustafa Barzani’s wars with the Ba’athist government in Iraq, he was opposed by various members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), including Jalal Talebani, who split from the KDP and formed the Patriotic Union […]
Kurdish political expert to the IKHRW: The KRG media is the enemy of the Turkish Kurds
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has become a complex puzzle. On one hand, it has paved the way for Turkey’s illegal and military presence, which has led to insecurity and conflict in Iraq over the years, resulting in the displacement of thousands of displaced civilians and the evacuation of hundreds of villages. In the 1980s, […]
Interview: KDP attacks MP Sarkawt Shams for working on corruption cases
Kurdish parlamentarian Sarkawt Shams of the Future Bloc in Baghdad is seemingly under hard fire by Masrour Barzani’s team. Social media feeds are overflowing with the most ridiculous allegations, calling the parlamentarian gay, prostitute, traitor and so on. We decided to ask around to see what these childish attacks were all about. Sarkawt Shams’s wife, […]
Iraqi Kurdish Journalist to IKHRW: Barzani and Talabani Families Responsible for Economic Corruption
Suleiman Alikhan, a Kurdish journalist, wrote on the RojArticle website about the economic situation of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and criticized the performance of the previous eight cabinets, criticizing the Ninth Cabinet as Masrour Barzani, Prime Minister, and the statements of various officials, including the Masrour Barzani who calls the current economic problems the […]
Yalçın Küçük: I kept the Kurds away from Barzani, otherwise they would fight for independence instead of a democratic Turkey
Through the words of Yalçın Küçük, who was detained in relation to the Ergenekon trials and released in December 2012, I want to show you once again the treason PKK has committed to the Kurds from Turkey. Or that the PKK itself, acted by order of theTurkish ‘Ergenekon’. Küçük was accused of being one of […]