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…
The visit of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to Iraq and South Kurdistan aimed to legitimize and continue Ankara’s attacks in the region. We underlined that of the four states that dominate Kurdistan, Iraq constitutionally recognizes the existence and rights of the Kurds, and added that Turkey is trying to draw Iraq into its own…
Kurdistan Culture Week – Brussels 23-24-25-26-27/August/ 2023 SPANJEPLEIN – PLACE D’ESPAGNE – BXL Twitter: @KurdCultWeekBE Email: kurdishcultweek@proton.me The culture week start with an reception in Vlaam Huis Brussel
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…
At the 2023 NATO Summit in Lithuania, world leaders accepted the demands of authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 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 Öcalan Urgent Call on the Council of Europe, EU and UN for Ad Hoc Mission to Imrali Background Paper in PDF Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and the whole Kurdish people under threat of total execution The history of the Kurds in the last 200 years of European…
Serious Threats to Life and Health of Abdullah Öcalan – 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 Öcalan anonymously…