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KT News and Comment: Sources close to the Gorran leadership have spoken to KT about the party’s disappointment with last week’s meeting between the leaders of the ruling KDP and PUK and Gorran head Nawshirwan Mustafa. They say the Gorran leadership believes the ruling parties are “buying time and wasting time and not making actual…
By Ahmet Abidin Ozbek: Today people need peace more than anything else. It is as essential as bread, water or milk. It is important because, if there is no peace, there will be continuous conflict in all areas of life. For stable peace, the government has the most responsibility. Peace and progress are mutually connected….
KT News and Comment: Iraq prime minister Maliki has imposed a curfew on the city of Fallujah after at least five people were killed today and 60 injured when troops opened fire on unarmed protestors. This was the first time protestors have been killed by the army since the current round of protests by Sunni…
A PKK spokesperson today dismissed reports that the PKK is ready to lay down its weapons. Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ahmet Deniz told Halwati newspaper that the PKK Armed Council is unhappy with Turkish media reports claiming that a four-point agreement was reached in recent talks between jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and the MIT (Turkish intelligence) which…
KT News and Comment: At least 35 people were killed and up to 200 injured in Tuz Khurmatu, Iraq, yesterday when a car driven by a suicide bomber exploded in the vicinity of a Shia Turkmen funeral. Tuz Khurmatu, 56 miles south of the city of Kirkuk, is mainly populated by Kurds and Turkmen. Local…
By NUJ (Manchester & Salford Branch): The UK National Union of Journalists’ Manchester and Salford branch has launched a campaign in support of a political journalist who fled Iraq in 2010 after being threatened as a result of newspaper articles he wrote at the time of the elections. Rzhwan Amin (Jaf), who has been living…
KT News and Comment: Ahmet Türk, an independent deputy who co-chairs the umbrella Democratic Society Congress (DTK), has urged prime minister Erdogan’s government to act sensibly in its dealing with Kurds, who make up twenty per cent of Turkey’s population. He told reporters that, especially while the MIT (Turkish intelligence) is negotiating with jailed PKK…
KT News and Comment: UPDATE: Güney ‘not Sakine’s driver’ and had ‘no ties with the PKK’ … French prosecutors have filed preliminary murder charges against a man they describe as an occasional driver for Sakine Cansiz, co-founder of the PKK and one of the three Kurdish women activists assassinated in Paris on 9 Jan. French…
By KNC-NA: With Prof. Hisyar Ozsoy, University of Michigan, Flint, and Luqman Barwari, President of the Kurdish National Congress, North America Dr. Hisyar Ozsoy will be the keynote speaker on the topic, “The Kurds in a Transforming Middle East”. The event will be held at the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on January 26, 2013…
By Mufid Abdulla: The recent tragic, brutal events in Paris serve as a stark reminder of other political assassinations that have happened in recent decades in Paris and France. The Belgian police told the PKK and the French authorities that they believed that there were two hit squads in Europe planning to strike against the…
By Dr. Amir Sharifi, Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group: The Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group condemns the continuing arrest and persecution of political prisoners in Iran. We are particularly concerned about the looming executions of numerous political prisoners, including two Kurdish prisoners named Zaniar and Loqman Moradi. We join the January 19-20 2013 Worldwide Campaign to…
KT News and Comment: The Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has asked the French government to speed up its investigation into the brutal assassination of three female PKK activists in the centre of Paris on 9 January. The BBC reported last night that the French authorities are holding two suspects, one of whom was a…
KT News: The Gorran National Council finished their second round of meetings today. It attracted local Kurdish media attention for two main reasons. First, there was a report on the recent visit by Nawshirwan Mustafa to Masud Barzani in Saladin, when he was accompanied by Ali Bapir and Mohamed Faraj, leaders of two other opposition…
By Dr Aland Mizell: Why Did Gülen Compare the Current Peace Negotiation between the Turkish Government and the PKK Leader Oçalan with the Truce of Hudaybiyah between the Prophet Mohammed and Non-Muslims? I hope the Turkish government finally understands that peace cannot come by force, but rather that listening and talking can achieve it. The…
KT News: The Turkish air force has mounted heavy attacks on PKK bases in the Qandil mountains. According to AFP, 16 F-16 fighter jets have bombed 50 locations and they were targeting the PKK leadership. The Firat news agency claims that seven PKK fighters have been killed. This attack is on the eve of the…
