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Internationalist women take over the vigil in Strasbourg: We want to contribute to Öcalan's freedom
...Öcalan's paradigm can save us from the ongoing wars' Another member of the group, Rebecca Alpers, drew attention to the global war environment and said that Abdullah Öcalan’s ideas offer an alternative for all the peoples of the world: "We are currently in the Third World War. We see this in Gaza, Iran, Syria, and Turkey's attacks. But there is also hope. Abdullah Öcalan’s idea of Democratic Confederalism and the paradigm of Democratic Modernity are what can save us from these wars.” Rebecca Alpers stated that Öcalan’s paradigm is not only a way out for the Kurdish people, but also for the peopl...
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Iran hands death sentences, long prison terms to Kurdish civilians over ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ protests
Five Kurdish civilians were sentenced to a total of 11 death penalties, lengthy prison sentences, and financial penalties for their involvement in the ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ protests in Bukan. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported that Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumi...
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1,060 people killed in Iran in Israeli attacks last June
An Iranian official announced on state television that the number of deaths in the country has risen to 1,060 following the 12-day war with Israel. Saeed Ohadi, Director of the Martyrs and Veterans Foundation, said in an interview with state television on Monday, “As of this evening, we have buried 1,060 m...
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Ceylan Akça: There is interest and support for the process in the US
...cratic approach could serve as a model for the Middle East. What stood out in your meetings with the Senate and the State Department? We also held meetings in the Senate and with various departments of the United States Department of State. However, on the first day of our visit, a U.S. strike on Iran had taken place, which significantly heightened regional tensions. Additionally, the “Big Beautiful Bill” package promoted by the Trump administration was causing intense debate in the public sphere. Due to these domestic and foreign policy crises, the process we presented was not among their top p...
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10 women killed in Eastern Kurdistan in one month
...Kurdistan Human Rights Organization stated that at least 10 women fell victim to homicide in Eastern Kurdistan, while 9 women died under suspicious circumstances. The organization reported that not only last month, but over the past year in total, 158 women were killed across Eastern Kurdistan and Iran, and at least 16,568 incidents of violence against women were officially recorded. The report reveals that the rising violence against women and policies of impunity in the region have become a serious social problem. It is estimated that the true scale of the violence is much more severe.
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Karasu: Rojhilat forces can present a common program
...table? “I don’t know, he didn’t attend the congress, I wonder if he’s well? I hope he is…” says Kemal Özcan. An interesting man, but really—to distort things so much, to work so hard to mislead the public, to create negative perceptions about us… It’s unbelievable! Dominant powers don't want chaos Iran Regarding the new emerging process in the Middle East: What kind of Middle East do they want to create? What do the hegemonic, capitalist powers want to do? This has been explained. In this respect, it has been repeatedly stated that Iran would be next in line. Iran could not correctly assess the ...
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Kurdish political prisoner in Iran denied rights amid harsh prison conditions
Modares Gorji, a journalist and a prominent veteran activist of the women’s movement in Kurdistan and Iran, has now served a full year of her 16-month sentence but remains imprisoned. Zhina Modares Gorji, a Kurdish journalist and prominent women’s rights activist, remains imprisoned eight months into a 16-month sentence, with only one period of leave granted since the start of her imprisonment, the Kurd...
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Everyone is a suspect in Iran: A witch hunt is underway
Following Israel’s attack on Iran, the state has escalated its pressure on the public to a new level. The surviving regime has launched a systematic wave of arrests and detentions under accusations of espionage. After a 12-day war and the ceasefire declared on 24 June, a brutal crackdown has been underway under the pretext of colla...
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TEV ÇAND says Agir Serîhildan was martyred in January 2025
...ey could not suppress his passion for struggle and freedom, nor his search for meaning. Comrade Agir constantly deepened this search to reach his goal and to join the guerrillas. Comrade Agir Serîhildan was a competent intellectual and artist. Even though he was educated in the schools of the Iranian regime, he never distanced himself from his identity and culture; he always lived with his identity and culture. This is how he shaped his personality and character. For this reason, after completing high school, he went on to university and successfully graduated. Comrade Agir chose to study a...
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KJAR member Rûken Nexede: We fight for the freedom of women and a democratic Iran
Rûken Nexede said that they are targeted by the regime for defending the freedom of women and a democratic Iran. As systematic repression and rights violations against women deepen in Iran, women continue to mount strong resistance demanding freedom. Although the regime tries to suppress women’s organizing efforts and social demands by force, the women's movements are expanding their struggle for a democrati...
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Kurdish political prisoner in Iran in critical condition as authorities block medical access
... After eight months in solitary confinement under severe physical torture at security detention centres in Sardasht, Saqqez, and Sanandaj, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison and exile to Minab Prison on charges of “enmity against God” (moharebeh) due to alleged membership of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan. Additionally, in two separate cases, he was sentenced to one million rials in fines and one year in prison for “unauthorized crossing of the country’s borders” and nine years in prison, half a full diya (blood money), and a 200-million-rials fine for “complicity in murder”. Since hi...
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DEM Party convenes to discuss the “process”
...eace and Democratic Society Process.” Co-Chairs Tuncer Bakırhan and Tülay Hatimoğulları chaired the meeting held at the party headquarters to assess current political developments. In addition to developments taking place in the world and the Middle East, the meeting will address tensions between Iran and Israel and political developments in Syria. It has been reported that the meeting will focus on the ongoing isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and the messages he has sent. Developments related to the “Peace and Democratic Society Process” will be one of the main topics of discussion. The meeting ...
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Kurdish Sunni cleric sentenced to prison in Iran, stripped of clerical status
An imam and religious instructor at the Sheikheyn Grand Mosque in Sanandaj, Kurdish Sunni cleric Barzan Maleki was sentenced to prison in Irna. The Special Clerical Court in Hamadan sentenced Kurdish Sunni cleric Barzan Maleki to one year in prison and permanently stripped him of his clerical status...
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Historic developments expected in July
...dote to the contradictions of the nation-state is democratic confederalism,” we must struggle to establish new systems and regimes capable of enabling change and transformation. In the Middle East in particular, within a war cycle that disregards international law, treaties, and institutions, from Iran to the entire region, the Kurds, as an influential force across the four parts of Kurdistan, are emerging as the strongest element in the construction of a democratic society. In the past century, even the very name ‘Kurd’ was denied, yet today, in the transformation of Turkey and the construction ...