Tuesday 7 October 2014

Updates From Kurdistan‏

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 Öcalan  calls for mass mobilisation against the war in Kurdistan
  PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party) leader Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyer Mazlum Dinç has paid a visit to the Kurdish leader in İmralı prison on Monday.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/ocalan-calls-mass-mobilisation-war-kurdistan> 
 
    
 HDP deputies on hunger strike in front of UN
  DTK (Democratic Society Congress) co-president and HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Şırnak deputy Selma Irmak, Van MP Kemal Aktaş, Istanbul deputy Sebahat Tuncel and former MEP Feleknaz Uca, a current member of the executive board of the DTK, have started hunger strike in front of the United Nations building in Geneva to call attention to the ongoing attacks of ISIS gangs on the Kobanê Canton of West Kurdistan.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/hdp-deputies-hunger-strike-front-un> 
 
    
 YPG:  232 gang members killed in Kobanê in one week
  The most recent wave of ISIS attacks launched with an aim to occupy the Kobanê Canton of West Kurdistan is continuing on the seventh day, having however failed to achieve its purpose in the face of the determined resistance by YPG/YPJ fighters and the people of Kobanê.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/ypg-232-gang-members-killed-kobane-one-week> 
 
    
 AKP opens hospital for ISIS members in Antep
  While Turkey’s support for ISIS continues to be debated, it has emerged that a ‘Jihadi hospital’ has been opened for ISIS members in the city of Antep (Gaziantep). Officials at the hospital made no effort to conceal state support for the bringing of gang members, saying: “we come from the border entirely under state supervision”.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/akp-opens-hospital-isis-members-antep> 
 
    
 Turkish  media lies exposed
  As the resistance of YPG (People’s Protection Units) fighters in the Kobanê canton of Rojava enters 6th day, it is being observed that the Turkish media is working like a media organisation of ISIS gangs.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/turkish-media-lies-exposed> 
 
  
 People  shot with live ammunition at Kobanê border
  People gathering in the area where solidarity tents with the Kobanê resistance were destroyed by Turkish soldiers have been attacked by Turkish troops and police with water cannons and teargas at the border of Kobanê yesterday. Troops are also reported to have fired live ammunition.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/people-shot-live-ammunition-kobane-border> 
 
    
 Erdoğan  confirms bargaining with ISIS
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has confirmed that there was bargaining with ISIS regarding the release of 49 consular staff. He said: “It was a question of political bargaining,” and did not refute claims of a ‘swap’.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/erdogan-confirms-bargaining-isis> 
 
    
 German  Left Party delegation to go to Rojava border
  Following ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham) gang attacks on the Kobanê canton of Rojava, Left Party (Die Linke) member of the German Federal Parliament and the president of the Federal Parliament’s United Nations sub-commission, Heike Hänsel, and a member of the board of the Left Party’s Baden Würtemberg province, Gökay Akbulut, are to go to the Turkey-Syria border in order to carry out observations.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/german-left-party-delegation-go-rojava-border> 
 
    
 ISIS:  We negotiated with Turkey
  Takva Haber, a news agency known to be close to ISIS, said that the release of 49 Turkish consular hostages yesterday was the result of negotiations between ISIS and the Turkish state.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/isis-negotiated-turkey> 
 
    
 A thousand people cross to Kobanê to fight ISIS
  Tens of thousands of people are continuing to protest at the border in solidarity with the YPG, YPJ forces who are fighting against the ISIS gangs in Kobanê.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/thousand-people-cross-kobane-fight-isis> 
 
    
 YPG captures 3 Belgian and French ISIS members at border
  Three ISIS members captured by YPG fighters as they tried to cross the border from Turkey into Kobanê were found to have Belgian and French citizenship. The three, two of them Belgian and one French, were captured as they tried to cross the border yesterday evening.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/ypg-captures-3-belgian-french-isis-members-border> 
 
    
 HDP delegation meets KCK officials
A delegation consisting of HDP Group co-chairs İdris Baluken and Pervin Buldan and Istanbul MP Sırrı Süreya Önder met members of the KCK executive council in Kandil, following their meeting in İmralı with Kurdish People’s leader Abdullah Öcalan.
  Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/hdp-delegation-meets-kck-officials> 
  
 Protests  against ISIS in London, Copenhagen and Munich
There were protests yesterday in London, Copenhagen and Munich at the attacks of ISIS gangs on Kobane and to condemn Turkish state support for ISIS gangs.
  Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/protests-isis-london-copenhagen-munich> 
 
   
 Kobanê  Co-President: No one should expect us to surrender
  The resistance of YPG and YPJ forces against ISIS gang attacks with tanks and artillery in the Kobanê Canton is continuing.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kobane-co-president-one-expect-us-surrender> 
 
  
 Kirkuk  Governor: Guerrillas played a major role in defence of Kirkuk
  Kirkuk Governor Najmiddin Karim said the guerrilla forces played a major role in the defence of Sinjar, Makhmur and Kirkuk, adding: “all our forces fought side by side and prevented the enemy entering Kirkuk.”
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kirkuk-governor-guerrillas-played-major-role-defence-kirkuk> 
 
    
 Muslim:  Whoever is going to do something for Kobanê must do it now
  PYD Co-President Salih Muslim said Kobanê was involved in a great resistance to the attacks of ISIS gangs, adding: “whoever is going to do something for Kobanê should do it now”, calling on tribes in Urfa, Suruç and Ceylanpınar in particular to rise up.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/muslim-whoever-going-something-kobane-must-now> 
 
    
 ISIS  carried out a massacre in villages in Tel Hamis
  Residents in the villages of Tel Hamis, that have been taken from ISIS by YPG forces, have talked about the savagery perpetrated by the ISIS gangs. Villagers said the gangs had threatened to chop off their heads and had raped women.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/isis-carried-massacre-villages-tel-hamis> 
 
    
 Kışanak:  We can provide Kurdish schools as public service
 Amed (Diyarbakir) Metropolitan City Co-mayor Gultan Kısanak commented on the closing of the schools opened to give education in Kurdish, saying: “We are ready to meet the demands of the people, for whichever language they demand to have education, within the context of local public services”.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kisanak-can-provide-kurdish-schools-public-service> 
 
    
 Is demand for mother tongue education terrorist propaganda?
The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) has taken the issue of sealing the doors of schools opened to provide education in Kurdish to the Turkish parliament by submitting a parliamentary question to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Efgan Ala. HDP asked: “Is the demand for education in the mother tongue propaganda for a terrorist organisation? If not, what is the reason for starting an inquiry into Kurdish schools?”
  
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/demand-mother-tongue-education-terrorist-propaganda> 
 
    
 Turkish  soldiers shoot two Rojava shepherds
  Turkish troops are continuing to open fire with impunity on the border between North and West Kurdistan. Soldiers, who have carried out dozens of extra judicial executions, have now shot two shepherds tending their animals in Rojava (West Kurdistan).
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/turkish-soldiers-shoot-two-rojava-shepherds> 
 
    
 No solution without education in mother tongue
  Istanbul branches of Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK), Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Party of Democratic Regions (DBP) and Istanbul Kurdish Institute have protested the sealing of the doors of the Dibistana Seretayî a Ferzad Kemangar-Ferzad Kemanger primary school opened in the Baglar district of Amed (Diyarbakır) to give education in Kurdish yesterday, the first day of the 2014-2015 school term.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/solution-without-education-mother-tongue> 
 
      
 
 
  
Reports, Analysis, Statements etc..:
  
 Turkey:  Closing border crossings with Syria will put lives in jeopardy
  The Turkish authorities must ensure that the country’s borders are kept open to those fleeing conflict and human rights abuses in Syria and Iraq, said Amnesty International.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/turkey-closing-border-crossings-syria-will-put-lives-jeopardy> 
 
    
 Independent:  Turkey accused of colluding with Isis
  An article published in the British paper Independent called attention to the suspicions growing about Ankara’s murky relationship with the ISIS, with President Erdogan refusing to explain why Isis decided to release 49 Turkish diplomats and their families held captive for three months by Isis.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/independent-turkey-accused-colluding-isis> 
 
    
 KCK:  There should be no limit to resistance
  The KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Presidency issued a statement regarding the ISIS attacks on Kobanê and protests and resistance in the border area.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kck-limit-resistance> 
 
    
 Haluk  Gerger: ISIS fighting the Kurds on behalf of Turkey
  Writer and academic Haluk Gerger said Turkey has no problem with ISIS. “Turkey benefits in the Middle East whether ISIS exists or not”, said Gerger, adding that ISIS was waging a proxy war against the Kurds on behalf of Turkey.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/haluk-gerger-isis-fighting-kurds-behalf-turkey> 
 
    
 KCK:  Borders must go, Urfa and Kobanê must unite
The KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency has issued an appeal calling on the people of Kurdistan, first and foremost the people of Urfa, to make joining the Kobanê resistance and the struggle against ISIS the struggle of the entire people of Kurdistan; “Let us remove the borders, unite Urfa with Kobanê, defeat the ISIS aggressors and turn the Rojava Revolution into the revolution of Syria and the whole Middle East.”
  
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kck-borders-must-go-urfa-kobane-must-unite> 
 
    
 The  Kobane war…
  (Kurdishquestion.com  – By Amed Dicle) The war in Kobane is intensifying and the fate of this war is not only significant for Kobane and Rojava, but will determine the the fate of Kurdistan.
 Read more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/kobane-war> 
 
    
 Q&A  with former Islamic State member
  Islamic State (IS) member “Sherko Omer” would now be a dead jihadist hadn’t he surrendered to the pro-Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northeast Syria earlier this year. Journalist Rozh Ahmad met him to learn more about the experience.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/qa-former-islamic-state-member> 
 
  
 KNK  calls for solidarity with Kobanê
  The Middle East continues to resemble a tinderbox. The barbaric organization ISIS increasingly terrorizes the entire region. Apart from attacks on Kurdish regions in Northern Iraq, where ISIS repeatedly massacres Kurds (especially Êzîdîs), Christians, and Turkmen -Mosul and Tikrit have already been captured-, ISIS has resumed attacking the Kobanê region in Northern Syria since mid-September in the most brutal ways.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/knk-calls-solidarity-kobane> 
 
  
 Urgent  appeal to the world – Stop the brutal attacks by ISIS in Kobane
  Since 15 September the Islamic State has been carrying out the heaviest attacks yet on the Kurdish population of the Canton of Kobanê in Rojava (Western Kurdistan). Weapons delivered by Turkey are being used as well as weapons looted during the recent violent sweep through North Iraq.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/urgent-appeal-world-stop-brutal-attacks-isis-kobane> 
 
  
 YPG  issues statement on Tel Hamis operation
  The YPG (People’s Protection Units) Press Centre has issued a written statement regarding the conclusions of the operation YPG forces launched in the Qamışlo (Qamishli), Tirbespiye and Tel Hamis triangle on 13 September.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/ypg-issues-statement-tel-hamis-operation> 
 
    
 UN  humanitarian chief urges sustained funding for millions of Iraqis in need
  Sustained funding and support will be vital if the United Nations and its partners are to continue assisting the millions of Iraqis affected by the ongoing crisis in the country, particularly as winter approaches, the world body’s top humanitarian official said on Sunday.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/un-humanitarian-chief-urges-sustained-funding-millions-iraqis-need> 
 
    
 “International  community must not remain silent at ISIS massacres”
  While an operation by YPG fighters against ISIS gangs was being carried out, the gangs perpetrated a massacre of civilians in the villages of Tel Khalil and Hediyatê in the Tel Hamis area south of Qamishli. The Cizîrê (Jazireh) Canton Council of Ministers called on the International community no to remain silent and to document ISIS atrocities.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/international-community-must-remain-silent-isis-massacres> 
 
    
 NYT:  U.S. seeks Turkish assistance to starve ISIS of oil revenue
  The Obama administration is struggling to cut off the millions of dollars in oil revenue that has made the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria one of the wealthiest terror groups in history, reported the New York Times paper in an article titled “Struggling to Starve ISIS of Oil Revenue, U.S. Seeks Assistance From Turkey”.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/nyt-u-s-seeks-turkish-assistance-starve-isis-oil-revenue> 
 
  
 900  French citizens recruited to Islamic State jihad
  France’s interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve has stated that nearly 900 French citizens have travelled to the Middle East to fight on the side of Islamist groups in Syria and Iraq and some have joined the Islamic State militias.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/900-french-citizens-recruited-islamic-state-jihad> 
 
    
 DISIAD:  450 thousand Yezidis forced to flee for their lives
  Diyarbakır Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association (DİSİAD) has released a report on Yezidis forced to flee for their lives in the face of savage massacres and crimes against humanity committed by ISIS gangs that occupied the Yezidi town of Sinjar on 3 August.
 Read  more <http://www.kurdishinfo.com/disiad-450-thousand-yezidis-forced-flee-lives> 
 
      
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