Tag Archives: kurdish
Mob attack on dance event in Turkey
Mob attack on dance event in Turkey’s southeast Diyarbakır raises fears of organized intolerance. In Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır (Amed), a cultural event organized by a private dance school in a public space was attacked by a group shouting religious slogans, resulting in injuries to several bystanders and participants. An outdoor dance event organized by a […]
PAK misuses family disputes of a Kurdish woman to recruit her
Fatemeh Choupanposht joined PAK with her two-year-old son. According to the IKHRW from Bukan, one of the social problems in Kurdish areas of Iran is forced marriage, family disputes and inappropriate behavior towards women and girls. In fact, the Kurdish woman is forced to seek refuge with an armed group to escape social disorder and […]
Truth in the Heart of Darkness: Ejin’s Mother in Search of Her Kidnapped Daughter
A report of a mother’s search to get family’s only daughter, Ejin back, from PAK. Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch recently conducted an interview with the mother of a girl named Ejin Amini, joined the Kurdistan Liberation Armed Group at 14. This shows that child soldiers and its effects in the local communities of Iranian […]
PJAK’s new crime; Setting a record in the forced disappearance of a Kurdish young man
One of the daily and consistent crimes of PJAK and of course other Kurdish armed groups is the forced disappearance of members. According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, the crimes of the PJAK terrorist group against Iranian Kurdish youth and teenagers are still continuing and every day, new aspects of the inhumane actions […]
The continual use of children as soldiers in P.K.K
Firat news agency, the official organ of P.K.K armed group, has announced that it has recruited new members. The P.K.K announced in news: “9 more youths announced their joining to P.K.K by reading a statement. These young people declared that living freely in the mountains is Abdullah Ojalan’s lifestyle.” (Assuming the news is true and […]
The hollow promises of the Kurdistan Freedom Armed Group (PAK) to recruit members and deceive the Kurdish youth
One of the Iranian Kurdish citizens who planned to join this armed group, has recently published a series of his conversations with the supporters of this group on the virtual network. Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, as a human rights watch and active in the field of monitoring human rights violations in the Kurdish areas […]
Women, identity and armed conflicts
The use of women and girls as “human shields” is a global issue that is pursued in international capacities to prevent humanitarian disasters. In the Middle East today, the two keywords “gender” and “ethnicity” have become the basis and focus of the actions of various performers in various conflicts. Meanwhile, the marginalization of women and […]
PJAK should answer: Why should Iranian Kurdish girls become victims of the PKK-Turkey war?
PJAK has become a killing ground for Iranian women and girls, and does not take any responsibility for them. This armed and militant group uses Iranian girls for war and its illegitimate, illegal and immoral purposes. While this group presents itself as a supporter of Iranian Kurdish women and girls and claims to carry out […]
August 15, PKK and continued massacre of Kurdish children during its 39 years of fruitless conflict
During these 39 years, August 15 is the day that the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK started armed activity against the military under the orders of Ankara. Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK, who before the military coup of 1980 preferred to escape and fled to Syria and Lebanon along with his wife […]
The shocking story of the deception of a thirteen-year-old child by the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW), Kurdish militant and armed groups have serious disagreements on various political issues, but in harming Iranian Kurdish families and kidnapping Kurdish children, they are completely alike. The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, known as HDK, which is accused of militant actions against Iranian Kurds and cooperation […]