Kurdish journalists launch media campaign to release Said Akram A group of human rights activists and journalists called the February 17 group are urging Kurdish communities in Europe to support a media campaign in protest at the Duhok Court’s decision in unjustly detain Said Akram for more than three years. Said Akram, a former commander of…
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Category Archives: Iran
Israel claims seizing Iran’s shipment of rockets to Gaza, Iran calls this claim a lie
By Ava Homa: TORONTO, Canada – Israel and Iran continue to accuse each other of lying, each government calling the other a terrorist. Israel recently announced that they have seized an Iranian shipment of rockets sailing in the Red Sea off Sudan. The ship allegedly contained Syrian-made rockets and was intended for Palestinian militants in…
Pending calamity: Sectarian war between Shiites and Sunnis
By Rauf Naqishbendi: A tumultuous cloud hovering over the Islamic world is ominously unprecedented. Sectarian contention between Shiite and Sunni Muslims is on its way to consuming the entire Middle East with calamitous bloodshed and conflagrations. Clashing groups who advocate to this mishap are claiming their righteousness on the light of divine principles, while in realty…
History of Sunni political Islam in Eastern Kurdistan (Iran)
KT Report: The emergence of Sunni political Islam in Eastern Kurdistan (Western Iran) began in 1964 with the release from prison of Ahmed Mufti-zade (1933-1993) of Sine, who was a religious leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Iran). Mufti-zade in 1978 established a Sunni educational organisation called the Quran School (Maktabi Quran). Soon after its…
Israel’s concerns are very real, but …
By Ramyar Hassani: On Wednesday (November 20th) Iran and the 5+1 Group are holding nuclear talks again. Iran comes intending to win the negotiations and gradually secure the cancellation of all sanctions. Europe and the US want to make sure Iran does not produce any nuclear weapon and to prevent high-level uranium enrichment which can lead to the production of weapon-grade uranium….
Friendly relations and then some
By Raber Y. Aziz: @RaberYAziz I was a junior undergrad student in 2007 when a journalist from a Dutch radio station who worked on a report about Kurds and Kurdistan asked me as a Kurd what I thought about an independent Kurdish state. My answer was as follows: having a Kurdish state without the blessings…
Rouhani government: worse than Ahmadinejad
By Ramyar Hassani: Just a few weeks before the inauguration of the new president, on August 3, 2013, a new wave of discussion, argument and contention was heating up. A few candidates were busy with nightly debates on the national TV channel – one of whom was to become the new president of Iran, Mr….
The Evil Mind
By Beyan Farshi: I never had the intention to be involved in politics. As far back as I remember, all kinds of negativities seemed to be hidden within politics: things like treason, inequality, captivity, imprisonment, war, killing, slavery, confinement, restraints and many more. However, as a Kurd you can’t escape from politics. Thanks to our…
Iran: Don’t be fooled by Rohani – PJAK leader
KT News: The leader of PJAK (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan), the east Kurdistan movement with links to the PKK, has warned that the new Iranian president Rohani is taking advantage of recent diplomatic openings with the West to increase pressure on minorities, including Kurds. Abdul Rahman Haji-Ahmadi, the Germany-based leader of PJAK told…
Lives of two death row Kurdish political inmates in Iran at risk amid surge in executions
Press Release by Amnesty International: Two death row prisoners from Iran’s Kurdish minority are at imminent risk of being executed after the Iranian authorities carried out 20 death sentences over the weekend, Amnesty International warned today. “This surge in executions shows that behind words and promises, the Iranian authorities continue to rely on state-sponsored killing,…
Iran: 5 year sentence for Kurd labour organiser
KT News: Kurdish labour activist Wafa Qaderi was this week sentenced to five years in prison by the First Branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj. Wafa was charged with attempting to “illegally organise workers” and threatening the “territorial integrity of Iran” – the latter charge is often raised against activists…
Kurdish leader expresses concern over possible Western deal with Iran
By Sharif Beruz: Kurdish leader Mustafa Hijri expresses his concern over a possible deal with Iran in a letter to President Obama and other world leaders. “Iranians struggling for freedom in their country, and especially the Kurdish people, are concerned that a deal over the nuclear program with the dictatorship in Tehran could be made…
The obstacle to Kurdish Nationhood has been the Kurds themselves
By Dr Aland Mizell: With the PKK–Turkish government peace process once more sadly hanging by a thread, the Turkish media and especially the Gülenist media have already launched a pre–emptive blame game. We already know for a fact that Gülen and his followers never wanted the Turkish government to talk to the PKK or to…
Dictators don’t speak diplomacy!
By Sharif Behruz: US President, Barack Obama, gave in to another unintelligent diplomacy to deal with another Mid-East crisis, which – given the nature of the issues and regimes involved – in essence require a non-diplomatic solution, or at least the threat of the use of force to deal with them. The West’s politics of…
Human rights for Kurds in Iran: Discussion with UN special rapporteur
By Dr Amir Sharifi: Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group and a delegation meet Ahmad Shaheed, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on human rights in Iran On July, 19, 2013 a Kurdish delegation consisting of the Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group (KHRAG) and Kurdish American Committee for Human Rights and Democracy in Iran (KACDHI) met with…
