Tag Archives: pkk
Abdullah Hawez: More PKK die in the KRG than inside Turkey
Abdulla Hawez, a Kurdish analyst who writes exclusively on Kurdish issue, made an important point on his Twitter account that has received less attention. The Kurdish analyst writes, “Since 2020, the number of PKK casualties in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been higher than in Turkey itself since the beginning of the armed uprising […]
The call of Murad Karayilan and the girls’ response
Murad Karayilan, commander of the PKK’s armed wing and its affiliates, is seeking to make up for the loss of armed fighters following repeated PKK defeats in decades-old strategic locations in northern Iraq that killed many PKK members. Following the PKK’s call, its members tried hard and eventually abducted about a dozen underage girls, even […]
Hamid Jahangiri and the story of his trip to Kars
Hamid Jahangiri’s irreversible journey began when PKK / PJAK members deceived him in the village where he lived. Rostam and Banafsheh, his parents, were not aware of PJAK members meeting with Hamid in the village. They found out when it was too late. Although they went to PJAK headquarters in the foothills of the Kandil […]
“Shengal must be autonomous with a self-governing constitution”
With his statement on the 6th commemoration of the Yazidi massacre of the 3rd of August, 2014, SDF commander Mazloum Kobane, calls for the Yazidi people to have autonomy, with a self-governing constitution. Thousands of Yazidis have been murdered, enslaved, and many are still missing. Thousands still live in IDP camps throughout North-Iraq, unable to […]
Nechirvan Barzani: The PKK is abusing the Yazidis
“We will do our best to ensure the security and development of Sinjar,” said Nechirvan Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, on the anniversary of ISIL’s massacre of the Yazidis. “The PKK has turned Sinjar into a field of illegal armed groups.” “It has made them the tools of its political agenda, regardless of […]
Anniversary of the historic order of Abdullah Ocalan
After the PKK was founded, Abdullah Ocalan repeatedly confirmed that the Turkish intelligence (MIT) had established the PKK, and even proudly said that the PKK was funded by the MIT in the first few years of its establishment. Abdul Rahman Dilipak, a Kurdish representative of Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, confirms this, as do many […]
PKK / PJAK / HDP Baseless Claims and Reality: The Case of Child Soldiers
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has recruited children in various fields since its establishment: soldiers, drug dealers in European metropolises, and the production of porno films. The recruitment of child soldiers by the PKK / PJAK and other branches of the group has been criticized by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other human rights […]
Turkey’s PKK conflict: a statistical analysis
We have analysed the loss of life of both PKK members, Turkish state security forces and civilians between june 2015 and june 2020. A great shift in dynamics can be seen in this data. Not only has the ratio of PKK-deaths and state security forces-deaths changed drastically, PKK has increased its number of Iranian militants […]
Kurdish mothers in front of the HDP office: We will not celebrate Eid al-Qurban without our abducted children
Dozens of Kurdish mothers have been protesting in front of the office of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) for about a year now, calling on the party to take the abducted children from the PKK and return them. These Kurdish mothers did not give up their sit-in even in the cold of winter and still […]
The disappearance of a young Kurdish man from Khoy
Ismail Dudkanlu Milan, son of Hussein and Kareh, has never been seen since he was abducted by PJAK gunmen in his village in the Khoy border region. After his parents found out that PJAK had abducted him, they tried to bring him back, but members of the Kandil-based group in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq […]