Upon a call from the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) and the Union of Kurdistan Parliamentarians (KPU) a conference, titled the Consultation for the Promotion of National Dialogue, was organised on 21.11.2020 on Zoom. The Conference was attended by 250 people, including representative from most Kurdistanian parties and organisations, representative from civil society organisations, politicians, intellectuals,…
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Open Letter: Stop The War Crimes of Turkish State Against Kurdish Women
Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women Dear Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka, As Kurdish women’s organisations from all four parts of Kurdistan and the Diaspora, we are writing to you concerning serious and systematic war crimes faced by women in autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) also known as Rojava…
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Open Letter from Women to KDP,KCK,PUK: Kurdistan should not become a battleground for regional or global wars.
Open Letter from Women to: – Mr. Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) – Ms. Bese Hozat and Mr. Cemil Bayik, Co-Chairs of the Executive Council of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) – Mr. Lahur Talabani and Mr. Bafel Talabani, Co-Presidents of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) “Kurdistan should not become…
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Urgent appeal for the implementation of the UN calls for global ceasefire and the release of political prisoners
On 23 March 2020, UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres issued an appeal for a global ceasefire. On 25 March 2020, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called for governments to reduce the number of people in detention and release every person detained without sufficient legal basis, including political prisoners and others detained for expressing critical…
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War Intensified Against the Kurds Diverts Attention from the Turkish State’s Crisis
INDEX:  File English in PDF  •Deep Economic Crisis •AKP-MHP Repression and Counterproductive Pandemic Response •Using the Coronavirus as a Biological Weapon Against Kurds and the Opposition •The Symbiotic Relationship Between AKP and MHP •Conflict Producing Foreign Policy •Neo-Ottoman Military Misadventures with No End in Sight •Kurds Face COVID-19 and Turkish Military Attacks •Weaponising water in Rojava/North…
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Open Letter to…
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, Kurdistan Regional Prime Minister Masrur Barzani, KDP President Masoud Barzani, PUK Presidents Lahor Ĺžexceng and Bafil Talebani and KCK co-chairs BesĂŞ Hozat and Cemil Bayık A few days ago there was a disturbing exchange between the KDP and PUK in the region of ZĂ®nĂ® WertĂŞ. Then there was a crisis…
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To the press and international public opinion: March in 5-6 December, from Lozan to Geneve!
We are as representatives of institutions, parties, intellectuals, writers, artists, artists, journalists, academicians, Christians, Kurds, Syriac-Chaldean, Assyrian Armenians, Turkmen, Alevi, Muslim, Yazidi, women, and youth, organizing the ‘National Unity March’ from Lausanne to Geneva on 5 and 6 December 2019. WHY LAUSANNE In the twentieth century, when the Middle East was shared, European colonial states…
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The KNK’s 19th General Assembly’s Resolution
The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) concluded its 20 year. In the last twenty years, the KNK preserved in a progressive way its existence against the backdrop of all progresses and complexities of politics in Kurdistan and the Middle East. It has been twenty years that the KNK has tirelessly been working for the realisation of…