Dozens of fighters affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and based in Iraq’s disputed Sinjar region have severed ties with the armed group and have sought membership in the Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga forces, an official said. The 51 fighters are based on Mount Sinjar (Shingal) and have joined the ranks of the first regiment […]

Some 62 children died in the al-Hol camp held by the terrorist PKK’s Syrian offshoot YPG in northeastern Syria this year, according to a report by Save the Children. Two children die every week in al-Hol, the report said Thursday. The charity said many countries, including European Union states, were abandoning thousands of children in […]

A member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was killed in Sulaimani on Friday morning. Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani condemned the killing. Sulaimani first responders said they were called out on Friday morning about an injury resulting from a shooting. Saman Nadir, head of emergency services, said ID the victim was carrying identified him […]

Mustafa Bicer was a minor when he was deceived by PKK affiliates on social media three years ago, and abducted to Syria to join the organization. In a live broadcast on CNN Turk, the young man tells his story. He states that he wanted to return home the first day, and had asked his superiors […]

Turkey has “neutralized” nearly 18,500 people that it calls “terrorists” over the past six years, the Defense Ministry said Sunday. Since the start of this year, that figure was 1,865, spokesperson Maj. Pinar Kara told journalists in Ankara. The ministry uses the term to describe killed, wounded or captured combatants. The vast majority of the […]

The Firat news agency, affiliated with the PKK armed group, which has been engaged in a fruitless war with Turkey for 40 years, announced on its website that four members, including three of its underage recruits, have been killed in the war with the Turkish army. The PKK has said the children were killed in the Kurdish region of Iraq, but did not explain why it uses children in the war in Turkey and what the Turkish government's war with the Turkish opposition has to do with the Iraqi Kurdish region.

Human rights and Kurdish rights activists in Turkey have reported that the Turkish army has killed a Kurdish child from Bitlis. The armored vehicle of the 3rd Erzurum Battalion deliberately overturned and killed a 10-year-old Kurdish child named "Eyup Kurta" in the Khalat region of Bitlis.

The PKK's official news agency reported in short that three members of the group had been killed in Turkish airstrikes on Botan – a region in Turkey - on the 3rd and 29th of May, 2021. One of them is Iranian.

“This is America, it does what it came to do, tends to its own business, and leaves when it's done. And then leaves the people in the region to their own suffering.”

A Turkish TV presenter on Tuesday prevented a Kurdish woman from speaking in Kurdish during a live broadcast, drawing ire on social media and criticism from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). Didem Arsalan Yilmaz, presenter for the Turkish media channel Show TV, stopped a woman from speaking Kurdish on-air on Tuesday evening, telling her […]