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The latest victim of PJAK terrorism: A girl from Makoo city
The process of deception, abduction, execution, and killing the Iranian Kurdish youth and adolescents by PJAK and the PKK began years ago and continues. Under age Kurdish adolescents who are known to have been deceived or abducted all have a single and definite destiny: “Execution and being killed while fleeing PJAK headquarters or in Turkish […]
Bloody internal conflicts in PJAK; Who had Mehdi Rezaei killed?
Due to their closed structure, dictatorship and authoritarianism of leaders, terrorist groups and armed and mafia sects, such as the PKK and PJAK, have never tolerated any opposition or criticism. These bloody internal executions and repressions could involve all members of the group. In fact, in the PKK, with the exception of Ocalan and his […]
Friend or Foe? Group on terror list details US military meeting
Matthew Petti and Hadeel Oueiss Cemil Bayik has a $4 million U.S. counterterrorism bounty on his head. But the Kurdish guerrilla leader says his forces have been meeting with U.S. troops — and he’s ready to make amends. Bayik is a founding member and half of the two-person committee leading the Kurdistan Workers Party, usually […]
A girl from Salmas, the latest Iranian victim of PJAK terrorism: Jamshideh Ziba
The scholars and researchers have always focused on the situation of women in terrorist groups such as PJAK and PKK. Trying to exploit the traditional and sometimes anti-woman atmosphere in Kurdish society, these groups, promise girls and women freedom and prosperity; but in practice, women and girls become sex slaves and simple members of the […]
The New Kurdish Right
An emerging style of right-wing politics among Turkey’s Kurds defines itself in opposition to both the Turkish state and the PKK’s left-liberation mythos. It could upend the country’s politics Müjge Küçükkeleş / Selim Koru In Turkey, the most recent flashpoint between the Erdoğan government and the opposition has been Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, one of […]
Kurds in ‘mountain prison’ cower as Turkey fights PKK with drones in Iraq
As decades-old battle intensifies, civilians count cost in lives and livelihoods It took 10 days to find Muhsin Speri’s body. The 64-year-old had left his town in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan along with friends Hassan Sadiq and Safar Sini on a dry, windy day in December last year to fish and forage for wild […]
Ukrainians held hostage by PKK militants in Iraqi Kurdistan over arms trafficking scam
Al-Monitor sheds light on how two Ukrainian men were taken hostage by a Kurdish militant group that was scammed by Ukrainian crooks in a million dollar plus arms trafficking deal. KYIV — On a recent morning in Schevchenko Park in central Kyiv, Ukraine, a tall man wearing dark sunglasses, a black crew neck jumper and […]
A new conspiracy targeting Sinjar
Once more, it seems the Yezidi-populated area Sinjar is under imminent threat – as it has been for quite a while. Sinjar has become a thorn in Erdogan’s eye, as the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) has been operating there freely. Yet, this time, the threat seems larger than a sole Turkish invasion of PKK-controlled territory. […]
Kurdish Politician: PKK orders my assassination
In a news conference widely welcomed by Kurdish and Turkish media, politicians and political activists, Turkish Kurdish politician Ibrahim Guchlu said that the PKK had issued an order to kill him. Addressing the audience, including members of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), the Free Demand Party (HUDA-PAR), the TEVGER and the Kurdistan Socialist Party (KSP), […]
PKK continues enforced disappearance of Kurds
The PKK’s policy seems not to change: Assassination, attacks in various in European countries, extortion, forced conscription, child recruitment as soldiers, distribution of drugs, occupation of various parts of Syria and Iraq, and preparation for the occupation by Turkey and more recently; the very late announcing its members’ being killed – and not even months […]