(Kurdpress) – Two Turkish soldiers killed were killed in a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attack in the southeastern Kurdish province of Batman on Aug. 12. According to Hurriyet daily news the PKK militants detonated explosive which was trapped on the road…
(KurdPress) – Some political experts believe Turkey’s Euphrates Shield Operation was stopped by the U.S. and Russia and the two states would not let Ankara to attack Syria Kurds any longer. “Turkey’s Operation Euphrates shield was stopped by moves by both…
(KurdPress) – Representative of the Iraqi Turkmen Front in Turkey, Hicran Kazanci, has reiterated rejection of a planned referendum on the secession of Kurdistan region from Iraq. Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Wednesday, Kazanci said all Turkmens are totally against the…
(KurdPress) – The chief of Kurdistan Region’s Intelligence and Security Organization, Masrour Barzani, has stated that the planned referendum of the region to quit Iraq is binding and it will redraw Iraqi internal borders. Asking regional countries not to worry about…
Iraq (HRW) – Notify Families; Allow Contact New cases have emerged of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) authorities detaining men and boys fleeing Mosul on suspicion of affiliation with the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), Human Rights Watch said today. Family…
Iraq (Sputnik) -“Kurdish independence is on a trajectory,” wherein it’s not a question of whether the Kurds will form an independent state, but a question of how soon, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Gen. Vincent Stewart told lawmakers on Tuesday. “Once…
(TFC) – The Kurds have no friends but the mountains. It’s a popular saying that has proven true over the last century or so. When the Ottoman Empire fell, the 1920 Treaty of Sevres made a provision for a Kurdish state.…
Iraq (HRW) – Threats, Abuse Against Sunni Families in Kirkuk Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) authorities in Kirkuk are forcing internally displaced Sunni Turkmen to leave the city, Human Rights Watch said today. Affected residents said that the regional government’s Asayish security…
Iraq (KurdPress) – The Kurdistan Region of Iraq will hold a referendum on its independence from the country in August, Kurdish official stated. According to the BasNews Haji added that the region’s authorities were planning to urge the region’s High…
United Kingdom (KurdPress) – The House of Lords has urged the UK government to not support “attempts by Iraqi Kurds to seek independence” and instead to keep supporting the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Peshmerga as part of Iraq and…
Iraq (KurdPress) – The time is ripe for the Kurdish people to transform their semi-autonomous region into a sovereign state by declaring independence from the central government in Baghdad, the region’s President Massoud Barzani told French newspaper Le Figaro. “It’s time…
Syria (KurdPress) – Will US rethink plans for Raqqa? In May 2016, we asked how long the United States and Turkey could keep up appearances of alliance and partnership in Syria, given differences over US backing for the Syrian Kurdish People’s…
Middle East (OpenDemocracy) – Rather than a unified Kurdistan across borders, a single ethnic group with multiple sovereign territories is more likely to be the political foundation of the modern Kurdish Middle East. In early December 2016, the burning of a…
Iraq (Sputnik) – Two main Kurdish parties – the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) – issued a joint statement, announcing the formation of a special committee, responsible for preparing the independence referendum in Kurdistan. Representatives of two…
Iraq (Sputnik) – Iraqi Kurdistan is in the process of putting everything in place to hold an independence referendum in the near future, Said Mamuziny, a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, told Sputnik Turkey, adding that 95 percent…