Tag: Kurds
the contested election of a pro-Kurdish elected official in the municipal elections finally validated
An elected official from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party whose election on Sunday March 31 at the head of a large city in eastern Turkey had been invalidated in favor of…
the votes of the pro-Kurdish left coveted for the municipal elections in Istanbul
In Turkey, the main pro-Kurdish left party, the DEM, organized a large gathering this Sunday March 17 in Istanbul for the Nowrouz festival, which celebrates the arrival of spring. Two…
in Iraqi Kurdistan, civil servants demonstrate after months of unpaid debts
In Iraqi Kurdistan, civil servants demonstrated on Saturday in support of the decision of Iraq’s highest court which ordered the Iraqi government in Baghdad to pay Kurdish civil servants directly,…
Who was Peshraw Dizayee, the tycoon killed in the Iranian attack in Iraqi Kurdistan?
Tehran presents the attack carried out in Erbil on the night of January 15 to 16 as a “ targeted operation ” against ” a spy headquarters “. Kurdish authorities…
Kurdistan sells its oil on the black market through Iran
Iraqi Kurdistan sells its oil on the black market via Iran, according to a local independent media, with supporting evidence. 1 min With our correspondent in Erbil, Théo Renaudon The…
more than 110 dead in attack on army, Kurds targeted by Turkish strikes
More than 110 people were killed on Thursday October 5, 2023 in an attack on a military academy in Syria, at a time when Turkey carried out strikes against Kurdish…
after airstrikes against the PKK, members of the pro-Kurdish party arrested
The Turkish army carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq in retaliation for the suicide attack which injured two police officers in front of the Interior Ministry on Sunday October 1.…
autonomy in decline, six years after the region’s independence referendum
This Monday, September 25, the Kurdish leaders of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – including the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan – celebrated the sixth anniversary of the referendum for the…
Iraq: situation still tense in Kirkuk after the death of four Kurds during demonstrations
After clashes between groups of rival demonstrators and Iraqi security forces on Saturday, the city of Kirkuk was still under tension on Monday, September 4. Kurdish protesters gathered at different…
The noose tightens around journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan
On Thursday, the criminal court in Erbil increased the sentence of Kurdish journalist and human rights defender Sherwan Sherwani, already imprisoned since 2020 for “undermining national security”, by four years.…