Tag Archives: Turkey
A Kurdish expert: PKK is a terrorist group
Following the explosion of the Kurdistan Region-Turkey oil pipeline by the PKK negative reactions to this explosion are increasing. Dr. Ali Belo, an expert on oil affairs, says, “The explosion of the Kurdistan Region oil pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan by the PKK caused huge financial losses and it will take at least […]
Servet Turgut: Turkish soldiers dropped me down from a helicopter
About a month theTurkish Army dropped down two Kurdish civilians from a helicopter. One of the victims died after a while, but the second person, Servet Turgut, finally rescued following a coma and spoke of the event. He says army soldiers arrested and tortured the two in the summer and then threw them from a […]
UN Human Rights Council to SDF: Stop child soldiers recruitment
The report of the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council on human rights violations in Syria condemns human rights violations by Turkey and the PKK-affiliated Syrian Democratic Forces. The Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW) provides presents a summary: The 25-page UN report on widespread human rights abuses by Turkey and its proxy […]
EC report: Turkey suppresses Kurds / PKK is terrorist
According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch(IKHRW), the European Commission in its latest report (2020) on Turkey has reviewed the latest developments in Turkey, both internally and externally, including human rights issues. The European Commission stressed in the report that EU-Turkey relations have been strained since Turkey’s military intervention in Syria and Libya. The […]
“With the cooperation of the KRG and Turkey,” Ahmet Bal was also killed
The hunter was hunted. According to Turkish official media, Ahmet Bal, codenamed Dara Kato, the head of the PKK’s intelligence service in the Matinan region and its subdivisions, was killed in the Kurdistan Region in collaboration with the Turkish intelligence service (MIT) and the Turkish army. According to the report, after Turkey was informed, Ahmet […]
Violence and militancy as common denominators of Pan-Kurdism and Pan-Turkism
“Pan” is a Latin term meaning “all” and comes in the form of various terms, and its semantic burden expresses “all only for myself, no one but me” and in general expresses absolute exclusivism. Pan-Kurdism and Pan-Turkism are also more dangerous than Covid-19 disease and do not seem to intend to go to a hospital […]
Commander of PKK Special Forces killed
Anatolia News Agency reported that a senior PKK commander was killed. According to the news agency, Mazlum Demir, codenamed as Jir, the commander of the PKK special forces, who was in the red bulletin and wanted, was targeted. According to the report, Mazlum Demir was shot and killed during a joint operation between the Turkish […]
HRW condemns Turkey for violating the Kurdish rights
HRW urged Turkish authorities to investigate the case of a Kurdish man who died the day before after being detained earlier by government security forces and loaded into a helicopter before it took flight in Van. The two men were thrown out of a helicopter, as they were detained and accused of aiding the PKK. […]
Turkey banned the Kurdish language in social media, too
Turkey’s anti-Kurdish policy is taking on new dimensions every day. While the Kurdish language has been officially banned in Turkey for nearly a century, and even Kurdish politicians have been and continue to be indifferent to it, Turkey is imposing more and more restrictions on the Kurdish language. Qars Governor Turker Okuz dissolved the city […]
Kurdish singer: Turkish gendarmerie warned me not to sing a Kurdish song, otherwise…
Jasim Bashboga, a Kurdish singer from the Tatvan region of Turkey’s Bitlis province, known as Jasim the Singer, announced that the gendarmerie had summoned him and officially warned him that he had no right to sing in Kurdish. The singer added: “I was taken to a room in the gendarmerie where it was written” MIT/Turkish […]