The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Executive Council condemned the armed attack on our offices in HewlĂŞr, as a result of which Deniz Cevdet BĂĽlbĂĽn was murdered. This attack did not just target an office, an employee, a KNK member. The aim of this attack was the national unity of the people of Kurdistan. These attacks…
On September 16, 2022, Kurdish woman JĂ®na (Mahsa) Amini was tortured and murdered by the forces of the Iranian regime. After this abhorrent act, a women-led demonstrations broke out across eastern Kurdistan and throughout Iran, with the slogan “Jin – Jiyan – Azadî”, meaning “Women – Life – Freedom” in Kurdish, emerging as the rallying…
On August 3, 2014, the Yezidis in Ĺžengal (Sinjar) in Kurdistan Region of Iraq were attacked by the terrorist group ISIS, which was acting as a proxy of Turkey. ISIS practiced special measures against women in order to humiliate them and to kill them, making it also a case of feminicide. At Ĺžengal, ISIS carried…
At the 2023 NATO Summit in Lithuania, world leaders accepted the demands of authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄźan, transforming the event into a high-level diplomatic session sanctioning the oppression of the Kurdish people and promising continued bloodshed and displacement throughout Kurdistan. Before the summit, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson…
Serious Threats to Life and Health of Abdullah Ă–calan  – PDF Background Paper on the Imrali Regime In an interview on July 8, Executive Council Member of the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union (KCK) Mr. Sabri Ok said on the Kurdish TV Channel Sterk TV that threatening letters have recently been sent to Abdullah Ă–calan anonymously…
Information Paper on the Current State of the Refugee Camp Makhmour (Maxmur) May 2023 Content: KNK’s Urgent Call to UNHCR to stop Iraqi Army’s aggression against the Kurdish refugees in Makhmour (Maxmur) Chronology of incidents in the Makhmour Refugee Camp Letter of the Residents of the Makhmour Refugee Camp to the UNHCR in Geneva A…
Mr. Filippo Grande United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees E-Mail: hqpi00@unhcr.org Twitter: @FilippoGrandi or @Refugees Urgent Call to UNHCR to stop Iraqi Army’s aggression against the Kurdish refugees in Makhmour This morning the Iraqi Armed Forces surrounded the UNHCR Makhmour (Mexmur) Refugee Camp with tens of armoured vehicles, special forces and police personnel, and…
A popular uprising against the Iranian regime has continued since the heinous murder of 22-year-old Kurdish woman JĂ®na Amini on 16 September 2022. Seven months after this horrific killing outraged the people of East Kurdistan and throughout Iran and brought about a state of revolution, the people of the country remain defiant in the face…