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British and French Channel rescuers sued for manslaughter in Kurdish migrant deaths
The Paris prosecutor’s office said it has received a manslaughter lawsuit for failure to help in the tragic capsizing last month of a boat in the English Channel that cost the lives of at least 27 people trying to reach Britain. The manslaughter lawsuit, filed Friday by the French humanitarian organization Utopia 56, accuses the […]
PKK movie banned from Sulaimaniyah International Film Festival
Turkey is being accused of pressuring organizers of a film festival in the city of Sulaimaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan to cancel the screening of an award-winning entry depicting the resistance put up by an affiliated youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) against the Turkish army during its three-month-long siege of Sur, the […]
Geneva Call; will you follow up on these children?
The kidnapping of minors and the deception of the youth in all countries with a Kurdish minority and the presence of PKK-affiliated organizations continues. This also happens on a regular basis in Iranian Kurdistan, where Iranian Kurdish teenagers are influenced and deceived both through social media platforms and local handlers deliberately targeting them, to be […]
Sardasht Osman: a poem to die for
Free speech in Iraqi Kurdistan? Don’t even think of it. Sardasht Osman was an outspoken critic of the massive corruption of Massoud Barazani (President of Iraqi Kurdistan) and his government. He received several death threats. In May 2010, a group of armed men entered the University campus, kidnapped Sardasht in broad daylight, beat him, dragged […]
Military expert: If the PKK remains in Qarachogh, it is a partner of ISIS there
The PKK militants have joined ISIS in pressuring the Kurdistan Region, Military Expert Muhammad Sabir, claimed to Kurdistan 24. The military expert also said: “What the PKK is really doing in Qarachogh, this area is now the battlefield of ISIS, and the presence of PKK and any other force in that area is effectively helping […]
Turkish warplanes target Sinjar twice in five days
Suspected Turkish warplanes launched an airstrike for the second time within five days in the Yazidi heartland of Shingal (Sinjar) district on Saturday with no casualties reported, Yazidi activists and groups said. Turkey bombed the town of Khanasor on the Syrian border targeting a building that was used by the Autonomous Administration Council of Shingal, […]
CNN’s Turkish branch falsely uses singer’s picture (Ferhat Tunç) instead of killed PKK militant
CNN’s Turkish branch has falsely used singer Ferhat Tunç’s picture instead of a killed PKK militant. The singer said that he will file a complaint against the broadcaster. Duvar English CNN’s Turkish branch has falsely used Ferhat Tunç’s picture instead of a killed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant. The pro-government broadcaster was reporting Interior Minister […]
Traces of a kleptocrat (Masrour Barzani) from Iraq to Miami
by Zack Kopplin December 7, 2021 A few blocks from the water, in the heart of Miami’s glitzy South Beach, is a drugstore not like the others. Tourists buying sunscreen and straw hats from the CVS on Washington Avenue are financing a Middle Eastern kleptocrat. The plexiglass building housing the roughly 12,000-square-foot pharmacy is worth […]
Kurdish villager from Turkey who remained in coma after lynching and thrown out of helicopter by soldiers face ‘terrorism’ charge
Osman Şiban, who was almost lynched to death by dozens of soldiers, will face court on charges of ‘membership of a terrorist organisation’ based on a ‘confession’ that he gave shelter to a PKK official 30 years ago. A villager from Turkey’s Kurdish-majority province of Van (Wan) who had reportedly been beaten almost to death […]
Council of Europe urges Turkey to ‘release Selahattin Demirtaş immediately’
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rulings, has pronounced its interim resolution following its meeting on December 2, where it discussed Turkey’s failure to implement the ECtHR ruling of “immediate release” given for Selahattin Demirtaş, the former […]