Category: Report
Massoud Adi: PKK must stop using violence and weapons
A Syrian Kurdish political activist asked the PKK to stop using violence and weapons and not kill people anymore. And the presence of the PKK in the KRG is in Turkey’s favor. Massoud Adi added, “The presence of the PKK has never been legal in the Kurdistan Region, especially in any way it is a […]
Ali Aouni: “Kurdish MPs have moral problems”
Ali Aouni, a leading member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), says the Kurdish MPs opposing Baghdad for sending the salary budget to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) fear the Iraqi Government and they tryto prevent the moneyto be sent. He added that the issue of paying employees’ salaries by a central government bank instead […]
Fatih Cosmic: “Demirtas is a terrorist in collar and tie”
A political activist on his Twitter account referred to the history of Selaheddin Demirtash, the former leader of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), supporting the PKK and publkished some shared photos of Demirtash with the PKK leaders. He called Demirtash a “terrorist” and wrote to Kenneth Ruth in Human Rights Watch: “These are the images […]
Adile Buse: “Demirtash is a supporter of terrorism.”
A human rights activist criticizes the Turkish government’s policy of not dealing decisively with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the political wing of the PKK, in the parliament of that country, she criticizes and writes: “If there was real justice, after revealing how the HDP cooperated in kidnapping children for PKK, it must be closed […]
Ramzi Kartal: “Barzani is the executor of the Turkey-US projects”
Ramzi Kartal, co-chair of the PKK-affiliated People’s Congress (Kongra-Gel), told Hawar that the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), led by Massoud Barzani, is the host of Turkish and US programs in the region. This PKK official said “The United States, especially through NATO, is leading Turkey against the PKK”. In this regard, the role of the […]
A founder of PKK: the PKK is an instrument of governments
In an interview about the attacks of the PKK in the Kurdistan Region, Selim Curukkaya, one of the founding members of the PKK, says, “All Kurds must leave the PKK. They should ask the organization not let the Kurds be killed by the Kurds. “It is an instrument in the hands of the governments.” The […]
PKK encourages violence against the Iraqi army in Sinjar
A number of supporters of the Shangal Resistance Units (YBŞ), a branch of the PKK in Shangal/Sinjar, attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint and demanded the release of three members of the YBŞ arrested by the army. A clash broke out between them and army forces at the scene after the supporters set fire to the […]
EU Report: Human rights violations increase in Turkey
Nacho Sanchez, the EU rapporteur on Turkey, said that Turkey was moving away from EU values and standards day by day, causing historical problems in its relations with the EU. Examining the draft of the EU Commission report on Turkey for 2019-2020, he added that Turkey has not made the necessary reforms to be led […]
Turkish Ministry of Defense tweeted: 6 PKK members were neutralized
“Our heroic commandos conducted another successful operation in the Peace Spring area,” the Turkish Defense Ministry said on its Twitter account. Six PKK / YPG. terrorists who tried to disrupt security and peace were thwarted.” The Ministry of Defense also shared a short video of the operation. In a separate move, the Mardin provincial gendarmerie […]
KRG MP: Our officials are smugglers
Ali Hama Saleh, a representative of the Goran movement in the Kurdistan Regional Parliament, says we should not expect current officials to solve people’s problems, especially economic ones, because they themselves are the cause of these problems and most of them are smugglers. He added that the authorities at the Bashmaq border gate were smuggling […]