Saturday 1 March 2014

Updates From Kurdistan‏

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 Öcalan’s  letter to the Armenian people
  Armenian newspaper Agos has published the full text of the letter Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan has recently written to the Armenian people.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/ocalans-letter-armenian-people> 
  
 Cizîrê  Canton to establish new education system
  Mihemed Salih Ebdo, President of the Education and Training Commission of the autonomous Cizîrê Canton, said they would form a new program for a democratic education system in West Kurdistan.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/cizire-canton-establish-new-education-system> 
  
 Kurdistan People’s Initiative call to demonstrate on February 15
  Kurdistan People’s Initiative has released a statement to mark the 15th anniversary of the international conspiracy against Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan on 15 February.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kurdistan-peoples-initiative-call-demonstrate-february-15> 
  
 New appeal to stop executions in Iran
  Although the number of executions has surged alarmingly since the June Presidential elections in Iran, the international community is improving its relations with the Iranian authorities, says Iran Human Rights association.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/new-appeal-stop-executions-iran> 
  
   
 New evidence emerges of JİTEM massacre
  New documents detailing massacres carried out by JİTEM (Gendarme Intelligence Organisation), thought to be responsible for over 17,000 unsolved murders, has emerged. A witness has explained how JİTEM turned into a body called İDLM, and exposed the executions carried out by the Hilal Team with photographs.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/new-evidence-emerges-jitem-massacre> 
  
   
 Prisoner’s Right to Release on Health Grounds: The Turkish Debate
  Public opinion in Turkey has been alerted to the long-standing plight of seriously ill prisoners under the justice system largely by the quandary of a number of high-profile suspects, ailing, while detained as part of the set of legal investigations, from mid-2007, into various organised attempts purportedly towards a military takeover of the administration.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/prisoners-right-release-health-grounds-turkish-debate> 
  
   
 Video - English News From Med Nuce Channel – 02 February 2014Click  here to watch it <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/english-news-med-nuce-channel-02-february-2014> 
 
   
  KCK Calls For Mobilization Before Elections
The Co-Presidency of KCK Executive Committee has called for people to mobilize before the upcoming Turkish local elections next month, drawing attention to the critical juncture at which the peace process now stands and declaring that the election was an opportunity for genuine progress.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kck-calls-mobilization-elections> 
  
   
 DTK Diplomacy Conference ended
  Democratic Society Congress (DTK) has released the final declaration of the 1st Diplomacy Conference which was held on 1-2 February 2014 in the main Kurdish city Amed/Diyarbakır and dedicated to Engin Sincer and three Kurdish politicians murdered in Paris, Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/dtk-diplomacy-conference-ended> 
  
   
 Kışanak: No room for courts with special powers
  The 61st hearing of the KCK (Kurdistan Commuinties Union) main case was held at Diyarbakır 6th High Criminal Court on Monday. 175 Kurdish politicians, 94 remanded in custody, are standing trial for alleged ties with the KCK organization.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kisanak-room-courts-special-powers> 
  
   
 Bayık: Withdrawal depends on process development
  KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council co-president Cemil Bayık spoke to journalist Ruşen Çakır of Vatan daily about the resolution process, Kurdish national congress and Rojava.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/bayik-withdrawal-depends-process-development> 
  
   
 82 workers, 5 of them children, died in Turkey in January
  According to the Work Accident Report for January, at least 82 workers died in work-related accidents last month, 5 of them children, 2 of them women, and 7 of them migrants.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/82-workers-5-children-died-turkey-january> 
  
   
 Rojava’s  Autonomous Cantons in Major Diplomatic Effort In Region
  Salih Gedo, the president of the Cizîrê Cantons Diplomatic Commission, has announced the beginning of a major effort to open diplomatic channels between Rojava’s three autonomous cantons and other powers in the region.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/rojavas-autonomous-cantons-major-diplomatic-effort-region> 
  
   
 Ertuğrul  Kürkçü: Republic of Turkey needs a new structure
  HDP (People’s Democratic Party) Co-chair Ertuğrul Kürkçü emphasised that the system in Turkey had become blocked, saying: “the crisis is first and foremost about the form of the state, the structure of the regime.” Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/ertugrul-kurkcu-republic-turkey-needs-new-structure> 
  
   
 Kurdish Left Party leaves Syrian Kurdish National Council
  The Kurdish Left Party has announced its withdrawal from the Syrian Kurdish National Council (Encumena Nîþtîmanî ya Kurdî li Sûriyeyê-SKNC) for not acting in line with the interests of Kurds and joining the Syrian opposition fighting against Kurds.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kurdish-left-party-leaves-syrian-kurdish-national-council> 
  
   
 French authorities ask for assistance from Turkey
  The French prosecutors carrying out the investigation into the Paris massacre of 9 January 2013 have sent a ‘rogatory letter’ (document) to the Turkish authorities asking for information regarding the telephone calls made by murder suspect Ömer Güney.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/french-authorities-ask-assistance-turkey> 
  
   
 Rosa Luxemburg and Clara Zetkin turned PKK members!
  Diyarbakır State prosecutors have assumed Rosa Luxemburg and Clara Zetkin, whose names featured on posters for last year’s 8 March International Women’s Day, were PKK members.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/rosa-luxemburg-clara-zetkin-turned-pkk-members> 
  
   
 BDP electoral campaign…in musicClick  here to watch the video <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/bdp-electoral-campaign-music> 
 
   
 Mail campaign for sick prisoners
  The Bar Association of Amed has launched a mail campaign demanding the immediate release of 544 sick prisoners in Turkish jails. 163 are in critical situation.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/mail-campaign-sick-prisoners> 
  
   
 Iraqi Marshes, Second Step Towards The World Heritage
  The international coalition of the “Save the Tigris and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign” has released a statement welcoming the achievement accomplished by the national Iraqi team for the nomination of the Iraqi marshes to the World Heritage Committee, according to the 1972 World Heritage Convention.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/iraqi-mashes-second-step-towards-world-heritage> 
  
   
 Support from Assyrians for West Kurdistan cantons
  The Assyrian Unity Party (AUP) and Assyrian Women’s Union (AWU) have greeted the democratic autonomous canton administrations in West Kurdistan and pledged their support.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/support-assyrians-west-kurdistan-cantons> 
  
   
 PKK inmates: Our friends are left to die in jail
  Diyarbakır branch of the Associations of Help for Prisoners’ Families Federation (TUHAD-FED) called attention to the situation of sick prisoners in Turkish jails on the fourth day of the protest demo it staged in front of Diyarbakır D Type Closed Prison on Friday.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/pkk-inmates-friends-left-die-jail> 
  
   
 Parliamentary Human Rights Commission: claims of torture in children’s prison ‘fictitious’
  A report issued by the Sub-commission of the Turkish Parliamentary Human Rights Commission that visited the Ankara Children and Young Offenders’ Prison on 6 January has reached the conclusion that allegations of torture and mistreatment were ‘fictitious’.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/parliamentary-human-rights-commission-claims-torture-childrens-prison-fictitious> 
  
   
 Salih Muslim questions authority of NCC statement
  The co-president of the Democratic Unity Party (Partiya Yekîtiya Demokratîk-PYD), Salih Muslim, has called into question the authority of a statement issued in the name of the National Coordination Committee for the Forces of Democratic Change (NCC), saying that it was not an official statement of the body in question.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/salih-muslim-questions-authority-ncc-statement> 
  
   
 Talabani replaced as PUK leader by 3-person council
  Prior to its 4th congress, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has replaced the ailing party leader and President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, with a three-person council. The PUK has been trying to organise a party congress since its poor showing in the last general elections in South Kurdistan.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/talabani-replaced-puk-leader-3-person-council> 
  
   
 No  News from condition of Kurdish civil activist Dana Lencawayi after his detention
 While the world powers are engaged to deal on Iran’s nuclear programme, new government come into office of Rouhani has distorted the international circles eyes from the human rights condition in Iran and Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan) taking advantage of the “heroic flexibility” policy adopted by Iranian Supreme Leader as smile to outside and suppression to inside.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/news-condition-kurdish-civil-activist-dana-lencawayi-detention> 
 
   
 The  Population of North Kurdistan is now over 15.5 million
  According to the Statistical Institute of Turkey (TÜİK), the population of Turkey as of 31 December 2013 was 76,667,864. When looking at the figures according to province the population of North Kurdistan is fifteen and a half million.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/population-north-kurdistan-now-15-5-million> 
  
   
 Malterre: Paris Murders Investigation Should Not Stop At National Borders
  Paris killingsJean-Louis Malterre, a trial lawyer for the families of the three Kurdish activists murdered in Paris last year, has taken part in a press conference at the Council of Europe.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/malterre-paris-murders-investigation-stop-national-borders> 
  
     
 
 
 
  WORLD MEDIA:
  
 Turkish power struggle leaves new questions on Kurdish issue
  (al-monitor.com) The escalation of the power struggle between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Islamic movement of the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen has brought out new revelations supporting suspicions of the Kurdish movement against the government.Read more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/turkish-power-struggle-leaves-new-questions-kurdish-issue> 
  
 Officials: Top US envoy to Syria to retire
(AP, Washington) — The State Department’s top diplomat on Syria is planning to retire. State Department officials said Tuesday that Ambassador Robert Ford has told friends and associates that he plans to leave by the end of February.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/officials-top-us-envoy-syria-retire> 
  
   
 Kurds from Iraq wage holy war in Syria with one eye on home
  (Reuters) – Twenty-five year old Ako Abd al-Qadir went to wage holy war in Syria vowing to return and conquer all of Iraqi Kurdistan in the name of Islam on the way back to his home town of Halabja.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kurds-iraq-wage-holy-war-syria-one-eye-home> 
  
   
 Turkey’s Role in the Kidnapping of the Syrian Bishops
  (Dikran Ego, AINA) — On April 22, 2013 Bishops Yuhanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazici were kidnapped in Syria. During the kidnapping their driver was murdered. A fourth person in the car, Fuad Eliya, was released.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/turkeys-role-kidnapping-syrian-bishops> 
  
   
 Is Kurdistan Syria Church’s Best Hope for Survival?
  (cbn.com) ERBIL, Iraq — Islamic militants are driving hundreds of thousands of Syrian Christians from their homes, causing Christian leaders to fear that without help from the outside, the Syrian church may disappear.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kurdistan-syria-churchs-best-hope-survival> 
  
   
 Turkish police in high-profile trial for student’s death
  (ahram.org.eg) Some 2,000 Turkish riot police were on standby Monday as four of their colleagues stand trial for allegedly beating to death a 19-year-old student during three weeks of anti-government protests last June.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/turkish-police-high-profile-trial-students-death> 
  
   
 Democracy in Crisis: Corruption, Media, and Power in Turkey
  (freedomhouse.org) – Turkey’s government is improperly using its leverage over media to limit public debate about government actions and punish journalists and media owners who dispute government claims, deepening the country’s political and social polarization, Freedom House concludes in a report issued on February 3.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/democracy-crisis-corruption-media-power-turkey> 
  
   
 ‘We have been here longer than a thousand years’: Kurdistan’s fight for nationhood
  (independent.co.uk) The frontiers of Kurdistan, as they were proposed at the Paris Peace conference in 1919, “begin in the north at Ziven, on the Caucasian frontier, and continue westwards to Erzurum, Erzincan, Kemah, Arapgir, Besni and Divick.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/longer-thousand-years-kurdistans-fight-nationhood> 
  
   
 Salih Muslim: Syrian coalition does not represent Kurds
  (al-monitor.com) BRUSSELS, Belgium — The leader of the biggest Syrian Kurdish party has suggesteds that the Western countries are pushing the Kurds to talk to President Bashar al-Assad by forcing them to be either part of the opposition or the regime delegation in Geneva II.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/salih-muslim-syrian-coalition-represent-kurds> 
  
   
 Nations without States: “Acknowledge the existence of Rojava”
  The pressure group Nations without States was formed with the express purpose of promoting the concept of (national) self-determination.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/nations-without-states-acknowledge-existence-rojava> 
  
   
 Syria’s Kurds initiate experiment in self-rule
  (ft.com) The long-oppressed Kurdish minority in Syria has begun an experiment in self-rule that will shake up the balance of power in an already volatile Middle East and potentially complicate Geneva peace talks to end the country’s civil war.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/syrias-kurds-initiate-experiment-self-rule> 
  
   
 Iran, Turkey’s New Ally?
  (nytimes.com) WASHINGTON — A bribery and corruption scandal has plunged Turkey into crisis, seriously undermining Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authority. Mr. Erdogan now faces serious challenges from both secularists suspicious of his Islamist agenda and his erstwhile ally turned rival, the cleric Fethullah Gulen, who leads a powerful Islamic movement from his perch in Pennsylvania.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/iran-turkeys-new-ally> 
  
   
 Democratic autonomy has declared in Afrin canton in Rojava
  In Western Kurdistan Rojava, Efrin Canton also declared democratic autonomous administration following the declarations of autonomy by Cizire and Kabone Cantons administrations.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/democratic-autonomy-declared-afrin-canton-rojava> 
  
   
 Kurds in Syria: ‘We don’t want to draw new borders’, says Democratic Union Party
  (Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal) — Salih Muslim (pictured above) shares the presidency of the Democratic Union Party (Partiya Yekitîya Demokrat, PYD) with Asya Abdullah.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kurds-syria-dont-want-draw-new-borders-says-democratic-union-party> 
  
   
 Turkey: The Fakir vs. the Pharaoh
  (nybooks.com) – The political crisis now gripping Turkey is the country’s second in half a year. Last summer, millions of liberal Turks spent weeks in Istanbul’s Gezi Park and in the streets of other Turkish cities to denounce their increasingly pious, authoritarian, and plutocratic government, but the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was never really under threat.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/turkey-fakir-vs-pharaoh> 
  
   
 A leader who was born in Amara: Abdullah Öcalan
  By Zeynep Kuray -The life of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan has become the subject of a documentary film. The documentary, by renowned director Senar Turgut, includes testimony by members of Öcalan’s family and important names in the PKK, and also casts a light on the history of the organisation.Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/leader-born-amara-abdullah-ocalan> 
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