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Yazidi protest against the PKK intensifies in Sinjar
Mount Shangal/Sinjar witnesses mass demonstrations against the presence and actions of the PKK. The Yazidi Kurds of Sinjar have once again rallied and chanted slogans against the PKK in recent weeks. “The PKK is a serious threat to Sinjar and the Yazidis. It has abducted dozens of our young girls and boys, who are now […]
Finaz and Bahauddin are still in mourning
Finaz and Bahauddin Hassanzadeh live in a deprived border village in Khoy city in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Another deprivation was added to their life: they were deprived of seeing their son Muhammad forever. Mohammad was still a teenager who fell into the trap of the PKK / PJAK of death and could not escape. […]
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 […]
The call of Murad Karayilan and the girls’ response
Murad Karayilan, commander of the PKK’s armed wing and its affiliates, is seeking to make up for the loss of armed fighters following repeated PKK defeats in decades-old strategic locations in northern Iraq that killed many PKK members. Following the PKK’s call, its members tried hard and eventually abducted about a dozen underage girls, even […]
Hamid Jahangiri and the story of his trip to Kars
Hamid Jahangiri’s irreversible journey began when PKK / PJAK members deceived him in the village where he lived. Rostam and Banafsheh, his parents, were not aware of PJAK members meeting with Hamid in the village. They found out when it was too late. Although they went to PJAK headquarters in the foothills of the Kandil […]
“Shengal must be autonomous with a self-governing constitution”
With his statement on the 6th commemoration of the Yazidi massacre of the 3rd of August, 2014, SDF commander Mazloum Kobane, calls for the Yazidi people to have autonomy, with a self-governing constitution. Thousands of Yazidis have been murdered, enslaved, and many are still missing. Thousands still live in IDP camps throughout North-Iraq, unable to […]
Nechirvan Barzani: The PKK is abusing the Yazidis
“We will do our best to ensure the security and development of Sinjar,” said Nechirvan Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, on the anniversary of ISIL’s massacre of the Yazidis. “The PKK has turned Sinjar into a field of illegal armed groups.” “It has made them the tools of its political agenda, regardless of […]
Anniversary of the historic order of Abdullah Ocalan
After the PKK was founded, Abdullah Ocalan repeatedly confirmed that the Turkish intelligence (MIT) had established the PKK, and even proudly said that the PKK was funded by the MIT in the first few years of its establishment. Abdul Rahman Dilipak, a Kurdish representative of Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, confirms this, as do many […]
PKK / PJAK / HDP Baseless Claims and Reality: The Case of Child Soldiers
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has recruited children in various fields since its establishment: soldiers, drug dealers in European metropolises, and the production of porno films. The recruitment of child soldiers by the PKK / PJAK and other branches of the group has been criticized by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other human rights […]
Turkey’s PKK conflict: a statistical analysis
We have analysed the loss of life of both PKK members, Turkish state security forces and civilians between june 2015 and june 2020. A great shift in dynamics can be seen in this data. Not only has the ratio of PKK-deaths and state security forces-deaths changed drastically, PKK has increased its number of Iranian militants […]