Tag: Kurds
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.…
The Kurdish administration announces that it will try former fighters of the Islamic State group
Former Islamic State fighters should finally be tried in Syria, according to an announcement from the Kurdish autonomous region in the northeast of the country. Among these former jihadists, many…
Presidential election in Turkey: Kemal Kiliçdaroglu accuses Erdogan of “stigmatizing” the Kurds
The candidate of the opposition alliance for the presidential election, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, accused Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday April 18 of associating the Kurds with terrorism in the run-up to…
At least two dead in Iraqi Kurdistan in new strike attributed to Turkey
At least two people were killed and two injured in a strike that took place on Saturday evening April 15 in Iraqi Kurdistan. The operation is attributed to Turkey, Ankara…
PKK members sentenced for “extortion” and “terrorist financing”
Eleven members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were sentenced on Friday April 14 by the Paris Criminal Court, in particular for “extortion” and “terrorist financing”, to three-year suspended sentences…
Presidential election in Türkiye: the Kurds under maximum pressure
In the end, the leaders of the People’s Democratic Party, the HDP, chose to defend themselves by remaining silent. On Tuesday April 11, the future of their political party will…
oil agreement signed between Baghdad and Erbil
Exports of Kurdish crude, stopped for ten days, will resume. The arbitral tribunal of the International Chamber of Commerce had affirmed Baghdad’s sovereignty over the resources of Iraqi Kurdistan, thus…
Around 30 Kurds have been refused – relatives are seen as a security threat
About 30 Kurds have had their applications for residence permits in Sweden rejected – even though they are not suspected of anything. The reason is instead that relatives who are…
EPN met a politician in the Kurdish region of Turkey who is already threatened with prison on Monday – “The message is that the Kurds are not allowed to do politics”
DIYARBAKIR On Monday Gülşen Özer may already be on his way to prison. He is a local politician from the pro-Kurdish HDP party, i.e. the People’s Democratic Party. Now sitting…