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By Kanya Said: With the new year starting not long ago a lot of people have now started to work on their “New Year Resolution” list and its most common promise: to lose weight. Most of us have some excess weight that puts us in the overweight class in standards of BMI and it would…
KT News and Comment: Several prominent members of the opposition Gorran movement are upset because they have not been asked to join the National Council set up by their leader Nawshirwan Mustafa. The local media has been full of reports this week of the resignations of three senior members who have complained about this. Is…
By Shwan Zulal: Mutterings about what next and who will lead the PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) continue but now the main two contenders are emerging – with two different styles of leadership, representing different strands of thought within the party. After his recent ill-health and suffering from a stroke, Iraqi President and PUK leader,…
KT News: The bodies of the three Kurdish women who were assassinated in Paris last week are expected to be delivered to their families today. A farewell ceremony for the women will held tomorrow at Villiers-Le-Bel between 11 am and 5 pm. Firat News Agency reports that the bodies will be sent by plane to…
KT News and Comment: Turkey’s prime minister Erdogan has dismissed the idea that Turkish ‘deep state’ agents could be responsible for last week’s brutal assassinations of three Kurdish women activists in Paris. But he was quick to to speculate about PKK ‘splits’ and has even referred to the murdered women as terrorists. Bookmark on Delicious…
By KNC-NA: Los Angeles, CA – As members of the Kurdish National Congress of North America (KNC-NA) and the Kurdish Americans of California, we will hold a peaceful demonstration in protest to the recent political killing of three Kurdish women activists in Paris. This protest will start on Monday, January 14, 2013 between the hours of 11:00 AM …
By the KCK Executive Council Presidency: 10.01.13 One of the founders of our party the PKK, the elite and advance guard of our movement, a symbol of dignity and resistance, the head cadre representative of the immoveable will of Kurdish women, comrade Sakine Cansız (Sara); Representative of KNK in Paris, the talented diplomat of Kurdish…
KT News: Speaking in Paris today, following the brutal executions of three Kurdish female activists, the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chair Gültan Kışanak declared: “We promise, the Kurdish women and people will be free. Nobody is strong enough to kill them.” She told reporters that the murders on Wednesday night were directed at…
Press statement by Kurdistan National Congress UK & Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: In the early hours of Thursday morning, in the heart of Paris, an appalling crime was perpetrated against the entire Kurdish nation: the cold-blooded murder of three of our most dedicated Kurdish women activists. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin…
By Mufid Abdulla: The Turkish state has long been reluctant to talk and make peace with the Kurdish nationalist movement in the north of Kurdistan. This approach has endured since Ottoman times and the chauvinist ideas of Kamal Attaturk, the founder of the modern state, live on everywhere in Turkey today. In the 1990s, when…
Press Release by EU-Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC): It was with shock and grief we received the horrible news about the deaths of our dear friends who were massacred in Paris today in the most grotesque way. Sakine Canziz, the co-founder of the PKK in 1978 holds a crucial role in the party. Fidan Dogan (Rojbin),…
By Kurdistan National Congress: We are shocked and saddened by the news of the assassination of three Kurdish women politicians in Paris. We send condolences and our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Soylemez, and to the Kurdish community for their loss. We will continue to monitor…
KT News and Comment: Kurds around the world are shocked at the news that three Kurdish women – including Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the PKK – were shot dead in Paris last night. The bodies of the three women were found inside the Kurdish Information Centre in the centre of Paris. The other two…
By Abdullah Mezar: The year is insignificant, but childhood memories of the wilderness in the vicinity of Amoudah, or Chul, as we call it in the Kurdish language, are still lingering in our minds. They will stay with us even though some memories are terribly painful, but even that pain has a different effect. Our…
