THE CHEMICAL ATTACK AGAINST THE KURDISH NATION: A GENOCIDAL ACT This spring is the 23rd year ago, when Halabja has been attacked with chemical weapons from the former Ba’athi regime on the 16th of March 1988 in Iraq. Due to this chemical attack, the life of 5 000 innocent Kurds has taken away and more…
Northern (Turkey), Press Release
Massacre by Turkish state continues!
Statements 29.12.2011- Turkish war planes bomb Kurdish village and massacre 40 children and youth in Sirnak, South East Turkey. Turkish war planes bombed Roboski village, a Kurdish village in the South East province of Sirnak, Turkey, killing at least 40 civilians, many of them children and youth, late last night. 24 of those killed belonged…
Press Release
Ismet Chérif Vanly – Obituary
Statement 22.11.2011 – The Gesellschaft for bedrohte Völker (GfbV) mourns the loss of a democrat, scientist and member of our advisory board, Ismet Chérif Vanly (Wanly). He died on the 9th of November 2011 at 4:00, some days before his 87th birthday, in his home in Lausanne. Vanly worked closely with the GfbV at the…
Press Release
National Solidarity Meeting in Brussels
Statement 22/23.10.2011- The Kurdish National Congress (KNK) organised a two-day meeting named “National Solidarity” between 22-23 October 2011. The meeting has also coincided with a period in which the colonial powers’ attacks on Kurdistan have reached the highest levels. The Turkish government has increased attacks and operations from all fronts to the highest level and…
Press Release
A Dangerous Concept: The “Tamil Solution“ for the Kurdish Question
Statement 18.08.2011 – Since yesterday (17 August 2011) Turkish warplanes have been shelling the border area in southern Kurdistan (North-Iraq). According to initial reports settlement areas were hit. On the pretext of destroying PKK forces Turkey has bombed the area countless times. For a long time the Turkish AKP government has been preparing itself for…
Dossier, Press Release
11th General Meeting of the Kurdistan National Congress
Statement 28/29.05.2011 – The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) presents the conclusions following the successful completion of its annual Congress on 28th-29th May 2011. Common agreement was reached to distribute the conclusions in Kurdistan, the Middle East and rest of the world and these are listed as: 1.The geographical name of the region where Kurds live…
Northern (Turkey), Press Release
Stop the unfair practices towards Kurdish politicians
Statement 23.04.2011- The unfair practices towards Kurdish politicians facing oppression in recent days have gained intensity. 10% electoral threshold in Turkey forced BDP to enter the elections with independent MPs, but the -known seven-candidates of BDP were vetoed by (Turkey’s Supreme Election Commission) YSK arbitrarily and the country almost dragged into a chaos. On the…
Northern (Turkey), Press Release
Freedom for civil disobedience
Statement 13.04.2011 – The demonstrations for the “freedom for civil disobedience” executing by the Kurdish community in Turkey and Syria are still in continuance. The attacks against these attempts by the governments are also still continuing. Nearly all of the cities in north Kurdistan (Turkey Kurdistan), and the cities in Turkey which there are a…