Tag Archives: Turkey
PJAK should answer: Why should Iranian Kurdish girls become victims of the PKK-Turkey war?
PJAK has become a killing ground for Iranian women and girls, and does not take any responsibility for them. This armed and militant group uses Iranian girls for war and its illegitimate, illegal and immoral purposes. While this group presents itself as a supporter of Iranian Kurdish women and girls and claims to carry out […]
August 15, PKK and continued massacre of Kurdish children during its 39 years of fruitless conflict
During these 39 years, August 15 is the day that the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK started armed activity against the military under the orders of Ankara. Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK, who before the military coup of 1980 preferred to escape and fled to Syria and Lebanon along with his wife […]
Iraj left home due to poverty
Iraj Jafari was born in Maku city in 1997 and later went to Chalderan with his family. At the age of 18, i.e. in 2014, after enduring very severe mental conditions and escaping from these conditions, Iraj set foot on the path of no return and finally became a victim of his hasty decision. Hearing […]
Turkey’s strictness in relation to the murder incident in Mardin
Turkey serious in the case of deadly attack on Duhok families. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu on Monday told a delegation from a Kurdish political party based in the Kurdistan Region that they are serious in the prosecution of suspects who have been arrested in relation to the recent death of […]
The Turkish justice system is overwhelmed with thousands in prison for such dubious crimes as texting about weddings.
Amberin Zaman Justice remains elusive for Metin Kilicaslan, a wedding singer from the mainly Kurdish province of Siirt in southeast Turkey who’s been languishing in a Turkish prison since 2015 on charges of membership of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). He tracks his days spent in jail by his daughter’s birthdays. She was newly […]
Stockholm’s failure to recognize SDF links to YPG, PKK
BY KLAUS JURGENS What makes highly experienced politicians who travel and know the world think terrorists are freedom fighters? How come after decades in the business of politics members of banned terrorist gangs and their offshoots continuously manage to fool them? What happened to political due diligence? Or could it be that certain holders of public […]
Turkey has the largest presence in Iraq and is occupying more lands
In the past two weeks, Turkish forces have occupied new areas in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The new Turkish military campaign is part of the Turkish expansion plan led by the country’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The new campaign began with the same old pretext – to “end” the presence of the […]
International duty of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region in the fight against terrorist groups
According to international law, the countries, as a duty, must not allow their territories to be used against the national security of neighboring countries. According to the Declaration of Principles for Friendly Relations in International Law, no country should be a host nor a refuge place for terrorist groups. The 1944 Declaration on the Eradication […]
Turkey brought Free Syrian Army fighters to the region to fight against PKK
Aiming to maintain control over a 100-kilometer area in Metîna, Zap, and Avaşîn, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) advanced only 8 kilometers in 6 days and to reinforce the Turkish Army, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters were brought to the operation area. As the military operation that was launched by the Turkish Armed Forces […]
Ankara’s “Kobanî trials” have begun
Ankara: 108 politicians from the pro-Kurdish HDP – including chairman Selahattin Demirtaş – are being prosecuted for the 2014 Kobanî protests. The first day was already not exactly smooth. The first hearing of the “Kobanî Trial” began today (April 26) at Ankara’s 22nd Heavy Criminal Court. As many as 108 defendants from the People’s Democratic […]