The occupying Turkish state bombed civilians and people in Ranya There are reports that many civilians were injured and killed as a result of the bombing by Turkish UAVs near the Boskênî village of Ranya district of Southern Kurdistan. The Turkish army, which has been committing massacres against the Kurdish people every day in recent…
The European Parliament awarding the Sakharov Prize to the murdered Kurdish woman Jîna Aminî and the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” (Women, Life, Freedom) movement in Iran, is a clear indication of their appreciation for the women’s struggle for freedom in Eastern Kurdistan (northwest Iran). Likewise, it should also be seen as definitive criticism of the misogyny…
The recent attack on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza reportedly resulted in the death of as many as 500 civilians, most of them women and children. This massacre is a human tragedy and crime against humanity. We as the Kurdish National Congress (KNK) strongly condemn this and all other attacks from both sides against…
Yesterday, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan publicly declared that all infrastructure and energy facilities in Rojava/North and East Syria (NES) and northern Iraq/Iraqi Kurdistan are “legitimate targets”, although military attacks on civilian infrastructure clearly violate international humanitarian laws and conventions. Turkish FM Fidan has claimed, without evidence, that those responsible for the attack on the…
For several days a human tragedy is unfolding in front of the eyes of the world, as almost 100,000 Armenians in Artsakh (Karabakh) are being driven into exile. This illegal ethnic cleansing is being carried out by the dictatorships in Azerbaijan and Turkey, motivated by a pan-Turkic geopolitical motivation to connect the two nations. As…
The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Executive Council condemned the armed attack on our offices in Hewlêr, as a result of which Deniz Cevdet Bülbün 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 Jîna (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 Şengal (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 Şengal, ISIS carried…