Category: Interview
Loghman Naqdi’s brother: PJAK sent him to remote areas of Turkey to be killed
Loghman Naqdi, a young Iranian Kurd who had become a member of PJAK, was killed as a result of the Turkish army bombing on May 1, 2019, according to the group. PJAK, as usual, published this news with a delay. Loghman had joined PJAK in 2012. Loghman Naqdi: Right In an interview with […]
Farzand Mazloumi: Iranian Kurd travels to Turkey for work, announced dead by PKK 3 months after
Farzand Mazlumi, a young Iranian Kurd, was forced to emigrate to Turkey and become a shepherd due to financial problems and lack of jobs in Iran. Shortly after his stay in Turkey, the family lost contact with him, and it was finally revealed to acquaintances that the young man had been killed in the PKK’s […]
Brother of killed PJAK member: No obituary to be found, yet PJAK claims Ibrahim Yazdi is dead
Ebrahim Yazdi is one of hundreds of young Iranian Kurds who were deceived by PJAK and joined this armed group, and there is no news about him now. PJAK claims that he was killed in the war with Turkey, but did not return his body to his family or determine his burial place. Strange enough, […]
Aram Ehmed: Just fly to that area and ask “Who wants to come to Europe with me?”
Thousands of Kurdish migrants, including women and small children, are still trapped in the forests and swamps of the border region of Belarus and Poland with limited food, drink or medical care. They are desperately waiting for a chance to enter the European Union. Most of them come from the Iraqi autonomous region of Kurdistan, […]
Father of Danial Doosti: PJAK has kidnapped my 14-year-old son
Danial Doosti was born in 2000 in a village near Mariwan, Kurdistan province of Iran. Danial is one of the hundreds of Iranian Kurdish minors that have disappeared throughout the years as a result of PJAK’s recruitment policies, that include filling certain quotas ordered by Qandil to the smaller groups roaming the region, by recruiting […]
Bayan Ahmadi: Victim of PJAK’s policy of deception
According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, Bayan Ahmadi was born in 1991 in Marivan. Her fate has been left unclear by PJAK ever since she was tricked into joining the group, and neither has the group published any information about the fate of this Iranian girl. In an interview with IKHRW’s reporter, Bayan […]
Father of Bahman Orami: PJAK is responsible for my son’s death
Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch has interviewed Bahman Orami Asl’s family in two stages. Bahman Orami is one of the killed members of PJAK, whose story of deception and death was recently raised by IKHRW. Bahman is also one of the hundreds of victims of poverty in the border areas of the country, victims who […]
Qasim Shasho: 900 PKK members defect to Peshmerga
The PKK’s armed forces continue to defect and enter the Peshmerga ranks from Sinjar, with PKK militants contacting the Peshmerga daily, reaching more than 900 today. Qasim Shasho, commander of the Sinjar Peshmerga forces (affiliated to KDP), told our reporter that the arrival of PKK militants in the Peshmerga ranks is continuing, and so far […]
Unsuccessful trip of an Iranian Kurdish family to Turkey to retrieve their child’s body
According to Kurdish media in Turkey, an Iranian Kurdish family traveled from Iran to Turkey three times to receive their son’s body, but Turkish authorities have not yet delivered it to them. The young man was a member of the PKK armed group who was killed in Sirnak. An Iranian Kurdish woman, Shoret Nurizadê, […]
Majid Dalaei Milan; An Iranian from Maku who was sent to die in Diyarbekir, 1000 km’s from home
IKHRW has reported on many cases wherein the PKK and PJAK (Iranian branch of PKK) seek to provide the manpower it needs by manipulating underage locals in border regions and deprived villages. It attracts these youngsters coming of age in a region without the possibilities it requires, by promising these people better jobs, education and […]