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Iranian Kurdistan News in brief

July 13, 2014, 11:20 am
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Iranian Kurdistan News in brief .
Mariwan - Mehabad - Sanandaj (Sne) - Baneh - Saqiz - Paweh- Kermanshan - Urmiyê (Orumiye), Nowsud, Sardasht, Bokan, Paweh [Eastern Kurdistan, Iranian Kurdistan]

Three Kurdish youth sentenced to imprisonments

Sne: Miad Ahmadi, Ezat Golparipour and Shaho Heidari, three young Kurds from Sne city (Sanandaj) in Iranian Kurdistan region (Rojhelat) were sentenced to imprisonment and fines. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), these three civilians in joint case which was formed with their arrestment in March eventually faced a prison and fine sentence. According to a written order that was issued by branch 4, Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj, Miad Ahmadi has been sentenced to 2 years, imprisonment which is suspended for 5 years and 50 million Rials fine. Formerly, in a report had noted that he was sentenced to 5 years suspended imprisonment that we hereby correct it. Also, Ezat Golparipour and Shaho Heidari, two other Sanandaj Kurdish youth have been sentenced to 3 months imprisonment but they have been temporarily released on 1 billion Rial bail. These three Sanandaji civilians were arrested in first March this year by security forces and after spending one month in Sanandaj Intelligence Bureau they were transferred to the central prison of Sanandaj and then they were released on bail. It has been told that the charges which Miad Ahmadi, Ezat Golparipour and Shaho Heidari were tried with were “action against National Security” and “Relationship with one of Kurdish parties”. hra-news.org | Ekurd.net
  

Kurdish prisoner deprived of medical treatment

Seqiz: Aram Mikaeli, a Kurdish prisoner of conscience detained in Sagiz Central Prison, Kurdistan region of Iran (Rojhelat), has been deprived of medical treatment despite suffering from numerous medical conditions. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), despite the judicial authorities approving a period of medical leave for Aram to receive medical treatment, the security forces have prevented the decision from being enforced. He is suffering from severe stomach ulcers, sciatica and severe joint pain in his feet. These medical conditions can be easily managed through medication, and the refusal by the security forces to provide adequate medical care has caused him unnecessary pain and suffering. Aram Mikaeli was active in preaching Sunni Islam in his Kurdish village in Seqiz and discussing religious issues in the local mosque. He was arrested in Seqiz by Intelligence agents on 14 November 2010 whilst distributing rice to the poor on the night of Arafat, in preparation for the day of Eid. He was held in solitary confinement for 17 months in the Ministry of Intelligence, before being sentenced to nine years imprisonment by the Revolutionary Court under the pretext of ‘supporting Salafi groups.’ Aram Mikaeli has endured numerous incidents of discrimination from the prison authorities. In August 2013, he and another prisoner were forced to spend at least 10 days in the prison quarantine after they refused to obey prison officials who had ordered them to shave their heads and beards. In December 2013 he was forced to spend more than a week in solitary confinement after refusing to obey prison officials who ordered him to stop teaching Qur’an classes within the prison. He was also in trouble for organizing congregational Eid prayers for the prisoners...hra-news.org | Ekurd.net
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U.S. Vice President Speaks to President Barzani

July 13, 2014, 11:21 am
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Salahadin, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, (krp.org)- U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and President Msoud Barzani exchanged their views on the current political crisis in Iraq today through a telephone conversation. During the conversation Vice President Biden stressed on the importance of forming the new Iraqi government in the hope of paving the way to get Iraq out of the current crisis.

On his part President Barzani stated that the new government formation process ought to focus on the current geopolitical realities of Iraq, adding that Kurdistan had shed blood for the defense of the current borders. 

Vice President Biden used the opportunity during the telephone conversation to pay his respects to the families and loved ones of the Peshmerga forces who had lost their lives in the defense of the borders of the Kurdistan Region in the hands of ISIS since June 10.

President Barzani and Vice President Biden spoke of the bilateral relations between the United States and Iraq in general and the United States and the Kurdistan Region in particular, focusing on the key issues that strengthen the relations between the two, including the war against the terrorists and the founding principles of the new Iraq, democracy, federalism and commitment to the Constitution.
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We call on the West to support the Kurdish people from the northern Syrian also ypg is Kurdish defense military and they need more weapons at to fight against the terrorist organization isis. just before the world's eyes isis has used chemical weapons against the Kurds in western Kurdistan

July 14, 2014, 7:16 am
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                                           stop islamic terrorist isis (daash) attacked kurdish people in weaster kurdistan
islamic terrorist muste be stop

We call on the West to support the Kurdish people from the northern Syrian also ypg is Kurdish defense military and they need more weapons at to fight against the terrorist organization isis. 
just before the world's eyes isis has used chemical weapons against the Kurds in western Kurdistan.
in the city kobane isis Islamic terrorist organization has used chemical weapons against Kurdish civilians. therefore we urge EU countries to support the Kurds in western Kurdistan.
YPG: ISIS used chemical weapons against Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan.
  KOBANE, Syrian Kurdistan,— The spokesman of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) Rêdûr Khalil announced Monday that al-Qaeda linked Islamic-jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS have used chemical weapons in the clashes in Kobanê in Syrian Kurdistan also known as (Rojava).


He called on international institutions and human rights organisations to carry out an urgent enquiry.

Spokesman Rêdûr Khalil issued a statement regarding the current situation in Kobanê.

The statement was published on the official website of the YPG. The statement emphasised that the ISIS gangs are using chemical weapons in the clashes.

“Kobanê canton has been exposed to the cruel attacks of the terrorist ISIS militants for some time. In these attacks, ISIS gangs are using all kinds of weapons, including the thermal missiles of USA. Nonetheless, after the first researches and medical control which was done by health team of Kobanê cantonwww.Ekurd.net and experts on the wounded and martyred fighters, it has been proved that the ISIS gangs have used chemical weapons. Doctors found burns and white dots on the bodies of the martyrs.”

Stating that the health council of Kobanê canton said they did not have essential technical equipment and further research conditions, the YPG spokesman Rêdûr Xelîl said that this problem meant they have not been able to determine and specify the type of chemical material used. Because of the siege of Kobanê, there is no opportunity for a comprehensive research to be made.”
  

Rêdûr Xelîl therefore made an urgent appeal to international institutions and human rights organisations to go to Kobanê and make a comprehensive enquiry. Rêdûr Xelîl also called on the international institutions to stop the attacks, and the international and national media organisations to report the anti-humanitarian conditions.

The doctors who belong to the Kobane health executive had announced after research that they found traces of chemical weapons on the bodies of two YPG fighters after clashes against the ISIS gangs on 8 July. They further had stated that they will continue their research on this issue.

The ISIS attemp to occupy Kobanê began on 2 July with an attack on the village of Zormexar 35 kilometres from the town. For nearly 2 weeks ISIS has been attacking the Kurds with heavy weaponry it has brought from Iraq. Thus far around 400 ISIS members have been killed in clashes with YPG/YPJ forces, while 40 YPG/YPJ fighters have also died. 
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The Declaration of Independence of the Kurdish State 14.7.2014 Khasro Pirbal — Ekurd.net

July 14, 2014, 7:19 am
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The Declaration of Independence of the Kurdish State  14.7.2014  Khasro Pirbal — Ekurd.net 
The recent developments in Iraq and the uprising of the Sunnis and the dissatisfaction of the Arab tribes regarding the unjust policies of Maliki's government in Bagdad which is characterized by unilateralism, tyranny and marginalization of Iraqi components made the Iraqi army to feel hopeless to continue fighting and defending parts of the country. 



The army and all the government's offices retreated from Mosul and handed over their positions the Kurdistan Peshmerge forces. The residents of those areas called on Peshmerga and the Kurdistan Regional Government KRG to help hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled to Kurdistan. 

The recent developments in Iraq and the uprising of the Sunnis and the dissatisfaction of the Arab tribes regarding the unjust policies of Maliki government in Bagdad which is characterized by unilateralism, tyranny and marginalization of Iraqi components made the Iraqi army to feel hopeless to continue fighting and defending parts of the country. 

The army and all the government's offices retreated from Mosul and handed over their positions the Kurdistan Peshmerge forces. The residents of those areas called on Peshmerga and the KRG to help hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled to Kurdistan.

Following the exclusion of the Kurds from the political decision in Bagdad by Maliki and Jaafari governments, we've today reached this historic chance which is a golden chance for the Kurdish nation and the leadership that can only be repeated once in two hundred years.
  
All the Kurdistani areas including the international frontiers are under the control of the Peshmerga forces and the Kurdistan Region Government, which is what people of these areas demanded.

There's no need for any local or international party to put these areas under their protection or responsibilities.

The Kurds in Iraq should seize this opportunity. Those areas should have been returned to the Kurdistan Region according to the constitutional, but the Federal Iraqi Governments were breaching its promises and deceiving the Kurdish people after the fall of the dictatorship.

A historic lesson should be learnt from the political interaction with Bagdad. Now a political and legal framework should be prepared by the Kurdistan Parliament as soon as possible for those areas which have been waiting so long to rejoin Kurdistan.

It's obvious that the Kurds took part in the liberation of Iraq and re-establishing the new state. While those who are ruling Bagdad now had nothing to do with politics and were actually busy trading and making a living in the neighboring countries of Iraq. But now they've become rulers over people of Iraq.

The role and support of the Kurdish leadership, especially President Massoud Barzani's and Jalal Talabani's have always been of benefit to the Iraqi people, the democraticwww.Ekurd.net system and the peace process. We tried a lot to recover Iraq as a state, and to make the economy, security, the political administration to serve the Iraqi people so that they can live happily.

We tried to encourage all the components of Iraq to reach a political resolution in accordance with the Iraqi constitution, but they seemed not to be honest and their uncompromising stances cannot possibly change.

The Kurds in Iraq have always been a part of the solution, not the problem. The political leadership and the KRG have always intended to transfer the Region's model to Bagdad, but unfortunately the response of the military rulers in the Green Zone has not been positive. That is why the Kurds should say farewell to Bagdad forever.

After the liberation of Iraq, the Kurds participated in power-sharing government in Baghdad, but their participation was undermined, they were not given any real authority.

We as Kurds, our cases, demands and rights have been downgraded, our victims are downgraded, salaries and people's rights are cut, and none of the Iraqi officials were truthful towards the Iraqi Kurds.

The Federal Government has not been serious in negotiations and the Kurdistan Region has been treated like a province;

The Iraqi government has refused to implement the Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution; it has cut the civil servant salaries; the Oil Ministry is busy playing games and the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces has failed in performing the duties lie on his shoulders. All the bad stances from the Arab political leaders in Baghdad should convince the Kurds that they have no future within Iraq.

We will not be given a chance to practice actual power. We won't be able to teach the politicians in Baghdad lessons in democracy, compromise and the policy of coexistence.

The Kurdish leadership, the Kurdish Parliament and the Kurdistan Region Presidency have to take a historic decision as soon as possible to set mechanisms to a peaceful withdrawal from Iraq.

The Kurdistan Region President and the Kurdish National Movement leader Mr. Massoud Barzani must declare Kurdistan independent in the Kurdish Parliament. 
  
The Kurds have failed in Baghdad or the rulers of Baghdad misled us to failure. It's better for the Kurds to draw its borders and administer its own state. Kurdistan has its own sources of a robust economy that includes trade, agriculture, tourism and natural resources, but first we need to revive some sectors neglected for years.

The European countries together with the international organizations are supporting this step. I have always known the United States as an immoral power. In this world, there are other powers that Kurdistan has not been dealing with much like Europe, Russia, Africa, and the Scandinavian countries.

They can assist us in times of hardship. We even share cultures with these friendly countries and they are closer to us on the map. Now in Turkey there is a government whose interest converges with ours.

This facilitates the realization of our long-awaited dream of independence.

The Kurds should work seriously on the direction of institutionalizing the government administration in Kurdistan by taking advantage of skilled and well qualified people. Also we should take advantage of the Kurdish Diaspora to create a bridge for their participating, introducing the Kurdistan Region to the world and opening a new page in the history of the Kurdish nation.

The Kurdish people now have many friends in the world. We should not only look at Washington. There are other countries and powers which can help us to build a nation state of our own.

I think that after the declaration of Kurdistan as independent, the political leadership and the government should seriously deal with the various components that live in Kurdistan, especially the Turkmen. As we know, as the severed or the disputed areas conjoin the Kurdistan Region, there are other ethnicities and components beside the Kurds whose loyalties have not been settled.

We have to try to win both the Arabs and the Turkmen over. These groups have been living with the Kurds for years and have mixed with one another.

The KRG should have a special mechanism to grant the Turkmen their political, social and cultural rights in Kurdistan. They, like the Kurds, have been deprived of their rights for years and waited so long. After the Kurds, Turkomen will be the second ethnic group in the state of Kurdistan.

Today is a historic opportunity for the Kurds to declare their independent state, to remain on its territory and soil and protect its existence and future without causing any headache to the nations in the area. History will not return.

Handing over the Kurdistan areas to Iraq once again is a step backward, returning to the starting point; it's a waste of time and continuation of the suffering of the people of Kurdistan and the burial of their rights to freedom and peace.

Working towards the declaration of Kurdistan independent should be in a manner that's a model to other nations and countries of Middle East, a model for coexistence of all components and the establishment of social peace.

The leadership of Kurdistan should work to reconcile all the disagreements between the political parties. All of them should cooperate and be united, forget their bitter past.

If a party thinks that a certain political party hasn't gained enough for the Kurds people and that's why it doesn't tolerate it, now it's high time to set aside these differences and instead mobilize all our efforts to realize the dream of our beloved independent Kurdistan.
  Now the Kurds are at a crossroads and an important historic juncture. This can determine our existence or nonexistence. Anyhow, I believe it's time to declare Kurdistan independent and step into a glorious future. Khasro Pirbal, Solna, Sweden, for Ekurd.net

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Hello This figure shows that the Turkish regime collaborating with the terrorist organization isis.

July 18, 2014, 1:08 pm
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Hello This figure shows that the Turkish regime collaborating with the terrorist organization isis.
 isis members practicing in Turky and Turkish military personnel are training isis members in Turkey against Kurdish people in Western Kurdistan especially in kobane
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Syrian Kurdistan News in brief

July 18, 2014, 1:10 pm
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Syrian Kurdistan News in brief .

Qmişlo (Qamishli), Amude, Afrin, Derik - Hesekê (Hassaka) — Western Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan) aka Rojava (West)

50 tones of aid collected for Syrian Kurdistan in 24 hours

Siirt, Turkey: On the first day of an aid campaign launched for Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) in the city of Siirt in Turkish Kurdistan, 50 tones of basic necessities were collected. The aid campaign for Syrian Kurdistan , which has been organised by the Siirt municipality with the slogan 'Rojava is the honour of the people, protect your own honour', was welcomed warmly by the people of Siirt. They donated 50 tones of aid, consisting of staple food products and basic necessities such as wheat, sugar, rice, oil, lentils, butterbeans, infant formulas and nappies in the first 24 hours of the campaign. People are bringing donations to tents set up in Sancaklar Primary school in Güreş street, the service building of Siirt Municipality and the Orhan Doğan city park in the Barış (peace) neighbourhood and is then being transferred to a municipal collection centre by vehicles. The commission set up for the campaign has visited villages and called on people to support the campaign. The aid will be sent to the aid centre in the Suruç district of Urfa on 25 July. firatnews.com
  
  

Kobanê mothers establish battalion

Kobane: Kurdish mothers in Kobanê, Syrian Kurdistan, are joining in the popular effort to defend the canton from an ongoing assault by the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), according to a report from DİHA carried in Özgür Gündem. The mothers, organized under the leadership of Yekitiya Star, gathered at a local armory from where a brief ceremony was performed marking their entrance into the ranks of the YPJ. The women will serve at checkpoints around Kobanê where they will work to provide security for the city center. The people of Kobanê are in a state of total mobilization in their efforts to resist ISIS encroachment into the canton, with hundreds of new recruits taking to the front to protect their villages and homes. One mother of five named Besê told DİHA that Kobanê was passing through a critical moment. Besê said that they were fighting as Kurdish mothers and would not allow ISIS gangs to operate their lands. Besê affirmed that ISIS would not be able to take Kobanê, saying “we have taken up arms as women. We will support our YPG and YPJ fighters.” Vowing to fight to her last drop of blood, she said “We will not leave our land, we will not allow our land to be occupied.”...rojavareport.wordpress.com | firatnews.com

Turkey's IHD branches visit Syrian Kurdistan border

Urfa: Branches of the Human Rights Association (IHD) in Turkish Kurdistan, first and foremost the Amed (Diyarbakir) branch, have visited the tent protest at the Rojava border between the districts of Suruç and Akçakale in Urfa province. The protest tent has been set up to condemn the attacks by ISIS on Kobanê. The IHD group issued a press statement at the tent protest, calling on the international community, including Turkey, to halt its support for the death squads carrying out crimes against humanity in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), and to lift the embargo. Before reading the press statement, IHD Vice President Osman Süzen pledged their support to those engaged in the tent vigil, saying: “We will always support you.” The chair of the Amed branch of the IHD, Raci Bilici, read out the press statement on behalf of 13 branches of the IHD in North (Turkey) Kurdistan and 3 representative offices. firatnews.com
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Iranian Kurdistan News in brief

July 18, 2014, 1:11 pm
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Iranian Kurdistan News in brief 
Mariwan - Mehabad - Sanandaj (Sne) - Baneh - Saqiz - Paweh- Kermanshan - Urmiyê (Orumiye), Nowsud, Sardasht, Bokan, Paweh [Eastern Kurdistan, Iranian Kurdistan]

Arrests of Kurds in Iranian Kurdistan continues

Sne: Four Kurds, Khaled Malaki, Abdol Karim Karimi, Ali and Abdol Hadi, were arrested by security forces in the Kurdish city of Sne (Sanandaj) in Iranian Kurdistan region (Rojhelat) last week. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the families of the men were reportedly not informed that they had been arrested until they visited the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj after growing increasingly concerned about the men’s whereabouts. The Ministry of Intelligence finally admitted that it had arrested the men, but refused to give the families any information about why the men had been detained. One of the men, Khaled Malaki, is the brother of Taleb Malaki, a Sunni prisoner awaiting execution in Karaj’s notorious Rajai Shahr Prison. Khaled Malaki had reportedly been previously threatened by the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj after travelling to Tehran with several family members to investigate the current status of the prisoners’ cases.
  

The Ministry of Intelligence told the families that the consequence would be ‘very bad for both you and your children’, if they did not stop their work in relation to the prisoners. Khaled Malaki had again visited the Supreme Court in Tehran last week before being arrested after noon prayers the day after he returned to Sanandaj. hra-news.org | Ekurd.net

34 days of hunger strike for four Kurdish prisoners awaiting execution

The condition of four Kurdish prisoners awaiting execution in Iran is deteriorating after 34 days on hunger strike. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Hamed Ahmadi, Kamal Molayee, Jahangir Dehghani and Jamshed Dehghani began their hunger strike on June 14, 2014 after they were transferred to Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj in order for their execution to be carried out. The men are still being held in solitary confinement in Ward 1 of the prison and are reportedly still being forced to wear ‘execution clothes’; special clothing for prisoners who are about to be executed. The men, who have been on hunger strike for the past 34 days in protest at their imminent executions, are suffering from low blood pressure and have fainted on a number of occasions. They are also suffering from abdominal and kidney pain, and two of the men, Jamshed Dehghani and Hamed Ahmadi, have bleeding from the stomach and blood in their urine. According to reports, their executions were postponed once again following widespread attention to the cases and pressure from human rights organisations. The men are still in danger of execution, and there is concern that their execution may be carried out after the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. hra-news.org
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Gaza: ' Turkish Jews must apologise'

July 18, 2014, 1:16 pm
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Gaza: ' Turkish Jews must apologise'

Update: violent demonstration outside Israeli embassy in Istanbul(Algemeiner)

Jews in Turkey are feeling threatened as never before as a Turkish daily affiliated with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogancalls on the country's Jewish community to apologize for thePalestinian casualties of the Israeli operation in Gaza. Meanwhile,  calls on social media to boycott Israel intensify. Ynet news reports (with thanks: Akusia)  

"You came here after being banished from Spain," Yeni Akit correspondent Faruk Köse wrote Wednesday in an open letter to Hakham Bashi, the chief rabbi of Turkey's Jewish community. "You have lived comfortably among us for 500 years and gotten rich at our expense. Is this your gratitude – killing Muslims? Erdogan, demand that the community leader apologize!"

In the right-wing newspaper's editorial, Ali Karahasanoğlu wrote: "After the barrage of missiles which hit the capital city of Tel Aviv, Israel has been pushed into a corner and is crying out for a ceasefire, which at the moment only serves Israel and the United States.

"The IDF is using forbidden weapons, intentionally killing children and murdering Muslims for the sake of murdering Muslims. Hamas is unprepared to accept dictations from Israel and the US, and will only lay down its weapon after its understandings are accepted.

"While all this is happening, the journal of the Jewish community in Turkey, 'Shalom,' is referring to the murder of children in Gaza as 'taking care of terrorists.'" 

(...) "I have never felt as threatened as I have in the past year," says Linet, a textile importer. "The government is inflaming the hatred and anti-Semitism and we are simply living in fear. 

"Many of those who have not left yet – and the vast majority of Jews immigrated to Europe and Israel a long time ago – are weighing their options," she adds.
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Livni: We’ll restore security, by bringing down Hamas if necessary

July 18, 2014, 1:21 pm
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Livni: All options on table, including bringing down Hamas

Israel will attain security for its people one way or another, justice minister says; ‘there will no political gains for Hamas’.


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Talabani to return from Europe

July 18, 2014, 1:24 pm
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Talabani to return from Europe-

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who has been receiving hospital treatment in Germany for more than a year, is to return to the Federal Kurdistan Region tomorrow.


According to PUK Media, Talabani's son and deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan region, Qubad Talabani, has said his father will return tomorrow. 
The PUK has also issued a written statement saying that Jalal Talabani will return to his duties as Iraqi President. 
Since suffering a brain haemorrhage in Baghdad on 18 December 2012,
Iraqi President and PUK leader Jalal Talabani has been in a German hospital receiving treatment.
Talabani's return comes at a time when the Kurds have taken control of disputed regions such as Kirkuk, when there is a search for a new President and when the independence referendum is being discussed.
In Iraq, according to an unwritten rule, the Presidency is awarded to the Kurds, the Speaker of Parliament is a Sunni Arab, while the Prime Minister is a Shia Arab.
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Paris massacre: Families demand arrest warrant for MIT officials

July 18, 2014, 1:26 pm
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Paris massacre: Families demand arrest warrant for MIT officials.

The families of the 3 Kurdish women who were murdered in Paris have demanded that the French justice system issue an international arrest warrant for the 4 MIT (Turkish Intelligence Service) officials who are suspected of having given the order for the murders.


Sakine Cansiz, one of the PKK founders, Fidan Dogan, KNK (Kurdish National Congress) Paris representative and Leyla Saylemez from the Kurdish youth movement were murdered on 9 January 2013 in Paris at the Kurdish Information Centre.
According to the AFP, the families of the three women have demanded that magistrate Jeanne Duye issue an international arrest order for the 4 MIT officials.
The 4 officials are the ones who signed a document published on 14 January.
In this document the information given by a MIT agent code-named Lejyoner, was shared and the realisation of the previously made plans was demanded.
It was written in the document that an amount of 6 thousand euros was paid for the murder of Sakine Cansiz.
This classified document was undersigned on 18.11.2012 by branch director, O. Yuret, unit director, U.K Ayik, vice president S. Asal and president H. Ozcan.
The families demanded a warrant be issued for the arrest of these persons.
The German newspaper Der Spiegel wrote in February that those MIT officials were the ones working on the Kurdish problem, adding that sources in the German Intelligence Agency had concluded that the document was genuine.
2 days before the emergence of the document, a tape of the chief suspect Omer Guney was shared on the internet. In the tape aired on 12 January, the suspect Guney was explaining his murder plans to 2 persons said to be MIT agents.
Speaking to the AFP, the lawyer of the families, Anoine Comte, said: “It is generally known that it is always a state that orders political murders, but there is never evidence. However, in this case, we are lucky that we have evidence” and added: “It is necessary to pursue the case to the end and to probe those who ordered the murder, including the ones who undersigned the classified document
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Müslim: Barzani has not grasped true nature of ISIS

July 18, 2014, 1:30 pm
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Müslim: Barzani has not grasped true nature of ISIS.

ANF - BERLIN


While ISIS attacks on the Kobane canton of Rojava continue, and the world's media give partial coverage to it, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-President Salih Müslim has emphasised the threat posed by ISIS in an interview with the Voice of Germany radio (Deutsche Welle).


In the interview on Deutsche Welle’s web page, Salih Müslim said ISIS gangs were preparing for a new assault on Rojava.
Müslim added that they wished to conduct a joint struggle against ISIS with the administration in South Kurdistan, but that it appeared that Massoud Barzani "had not fully grasped the nature of ISIS".
PYD co-President Sali Müslim said that Kobane was under siege, adding: "Kobane is the symbol of the Kurds identity and resistance. ISIS targeted it thinking it would be an easy target, but they have been unable to break the will of the Kurds."
'They are preparing for a new onslaught'
In response to a question regarding the scale of the ISIS attacks, Salih Müslim said there was seldom a day or two that went by without an attack, adding: "the ISIS gangs have distributed the weaponry they have brought in from Iraq to their militia in Raqqa prior to launching new attacks on Rojava."
Demand for a joint struggle against ISIS
The Deutsche Welle reporter asked, "ISIS is also threatening the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Is there any cooperation between the Kurds in Rojava and Iraq?" Salih Müslim replied, saying they had made the necessary call to South Kurdistan, adding: "ISIS attacked Kirkuk and fought the peshmerga forces. In Sinjar the peshmerga fought together with the YPG forces. That was particular to that area, and we wished to take it to a higher level. However, we have yet to receive a reply to our request. Such cooperation would have been a positive thing."
In response to a question, Salih Müslim said he believed South Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani had not properly grasped the dimensions of the threat posed by ISIS, adding: "ISIS said it was not an enemy of the Kurds, and the Barzani government appears to have believed this. However, if they had understood the true nature of ISIS and had taken a look at Rojava in my opinion they would have taken the necessary steps."
'We will recognise the independence referendum'
The PYD co-President said that they would recognise the outcome of the independence referendum planned in South Kurdistan. Müslim added that independence was not currently on the agenda of Kurds in other parts of Kurdistan, saying: "we Kurds in Rojava are not yet thinking of establishing a nation state. There is no possibility of this." 
Emphasis on democratic autonomy and a democratic Syria
Salih Müslim, responding to a question from the Deutsche Welle reporter regarding what the status of Rojava would be once the civil war had ended in Syria, said: "Our goal is democratic autonomy. In this way Rojava will be part of Syria and will not demand independence. A democratic system has to evolve in Syria, and our democratic autonomy will be part of that."

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news in English on the Western Kurdistan and what happened in kobane from ronahi TV

July 19, 2014, 5:22 am
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news in English on the Western Kurdistan and what happened in kobane from ronahi TV.
A few days ago, the Islamic terrorist organization isis attacked western Kurdistan city kobane and ypg answered firmly against Islamic terrorists.

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Kurds in Iraq and Syria struggle to unify against ISIS

July 19, 2014, 5:28 am
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Kurds in Iraq and Syria struggle to unify against ISIS.
ERBIL/QAMISHLI,— Experts say the Kurds in Iraq and Syria might fight a successful campaign against ISIS. But cooperation between the two groups seems unlikely.

The Iraqi army was unable to stop the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but the well-trained Peshmerga fighters in the autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq were able to defend themselves successfully.

Now Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, wants a referendum on independence for Kurdistan. Barzani told the BBC recently that Iraq was practically divided already, and that the ISIS advance in the region made the time ripe for Kurdish independence.

Green light from Turkey

Barzani has received support from some in neighboring Turkey. Hüseyin Celik, deputy head of Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP), told Kurdish broadcaster Rudaw that the Kurds had the right "to decide their fate." Ankara has been maintaining economic ties with the autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq for several years - its main interest being the oil reserves in the region controlled by the Kurds.
  
While the rise of ISIS could even bring a political advantage for Barzani's aims, the situation for Kurds in Syria is much more difficult - they are being forced to defend their self-declared autonomy against the terrorist group. Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD) set up a local administration in an autonomous region inside Syria with the backing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) at the end of 2013 - it was called "Rojava," or "Western Kurdistan."

ISIS attacks Rojava

Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) has continually come under attack from ISIS militias since last year, only when the jihadists went on the offensive in Iraq in June did the number of attacks on Rojava drop. But since last week, ISIS has resumed hostilities. The attacks are aimed chiefly at the canton of Kobane, the Kurdish name for the Syrian city Ayn al-Arab, Salih Muslim, co-chairman of the PYD in Syria, told DW.

The city of Kobane is located between two ISIS bases at Jarabulus and Tell Abyad, which means that the jihadists have to waste time and money traveling from one base to the other.

Meanwhile, Syrian Kurds see Kobane as a stronghold of their Kurdish identity. Salih Muslim said unity among the different Kurdish cantons in Syria depends on Kobane - if the city falls, the autonomous region of northern Syria would be under real threat.

Kurds versus ISIS?
  
The situation in Kobane is a major security problem not only for the Kurds but also the whole region, according to Turkish journalist Fehim Tastekin, who has been following the Kurds' situation in Syria, Iraq, and Turkey for several years. But can the Kurds in Iraq and Syria unite against ISIS? For Tastekin, the alliance question is "more a question of will than ability." At the moment, he told DW, there was no such cooperation between the Kurds in Syria and Iraq.
Kurds divided

Tastekin said the Kurds in Iraq and Syria are divided by different points of view. The president of the autonomous region of Iraq is following a traditional line, in which large family tribes play a central role, but Syrian Kurdswww.Ekurd.net would prefer to work towards democratic structures within society and self-administration.
On top of this, competing claims to power in the region also stand in the way of an alliance, said Tastekin. "Both groups insist on being in charge and want to represent the interests of the Kurds."

Over the past few years, Barzani has attempted to establish parties in Syria that come close to his policies. But these have failed to take root, and have not been able to assert their position against the PYD. Salih Muslim confirms that he has spoken to Barzani about a possible alliance, but has not received an official response.
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Turkish regime as precise as Hitler's regime. And supports terrorists

July 20, 2014, 4:26 am
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  Erdogan is a real anti-Semitism. yesterday attacked the Israelis and has been showing off their hidden idea.

Netanyahu finally calls out Erdogan for anti-Semitic statements.

Meretz’s Gal-On calls Turkish leader's comments that he made at a campaign rally “despicable, vile and irresponsible."







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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan Photo: REUTERS
After years of publicly restraining himself regarding Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told US Secretary of State John Kerry that the words of the leader of Washington’s close NATO ally were anti-Semitic.

According to diplomatic officials, Netanyahu spoke to Kerry overnight on Sunday about the Gaza operation, and said that Erdogan's anti-Semitic comments profaned the memory of the Holocaust.

Erdogan, in the midst of a presidential campaign, said on Saturday that “Those who condemn Hitler day and night have surpassed Hitler in barbarism.”

According to the Turkish website Hurriyet Daily News, Erdogan, speaking at a campaign rally in the Black Sea province of Ordu, said the "terrorist state Israel has attacked Gaza once again, hitting innocent children who were playing on a beach."

According to the paper, the crowd frequently interrupted Erdogan's speech by chanting "Down with Israel."

"They always curse at Hitler, but they now even exceed him in barbarism. Some Americans ask why Mr. Prime Minister [Erdogan] makes such comparisons with Hitler. What's that to you? You're America, what's Hitler got to do with you," he said.

This was just the latest in a series of vitriolic comments by Erdogan against Israel since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge. He also accused Israel of attempting “systematic genocide” against the Palestinians in Gaza, and likened Bayit Yehudi MK Ayelet Shaked to Hitler.

One diplomatic official said there was no doubt that Erdogan was using this issue to rile up the masses before the presidential election in Turkey on August 10. The two other main presidential candidates, Turkish PM claimed. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu and Selahattin Demirtaş have also slammed Israel for the Gaza operation, but not used language as toxic as Erdogan’s.

Meretz head Zehava Gal-On was withering in her criticism of Erdogan, calling his comments “appalling” if they were written in the form of a “talkback” to an article on the Internet, and all the more so when uttered by the head of a state, especially a state with diplomatic ties with Israel.

She said that it seems that because of the presidential election Erdogan has lost “control.” Nevertheless, she said, there can be tolerance for a person who thinks he can use his status as the representative of the Turkish people “to spread ugly and baseless lies.”

Gal-On, who points out that she has criticized the use of force in the current operation, said that a leader who “is able to look his citizens in the eye and claim Israel is committing genocide is despicable, vile and irresponsible.”

Gal-on, whose politics are diametrically opposed to those of Shaked, came to her defense, saying that while she was ashamed at comments Shaked placed on her Facebook page, which apparently raised Erdogan's ire, “she is not Hitler, and it is ridiculous to even have to point that out.”

On Saturday the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem called on Israel to avoid “non-essential visits” to Turkey in light of the “public atmosphere” there.

A day earlier, the Foreign Ministry recalled the families of diplomats in Ankara and Istanbul following violent protests outside the embassy and consulate in those cities Thursday night.

Israel also decided to fuhrer reduce its diplomatic entourage in Turkey, which is already small following Turkey's expulsion of Israel's ambassador following the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.

Rocks were thrown and windows broken during the Thursday night protests, which followed Erdogan's “systematic genocide” comment.

In one incident the Israeli flag was ripped down from the ambassador's residence in Ankara, and replaced with a Palestinian one.

Despite this all, Turkey – ironically – still hopes to have a role in mediating a cease fire, and Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas was there over the weekend for talks with Erdogan.

One columnist in Hurriyet, however, understands that Erdogan's policies have severely limited Turkey's ability to have a constructive role.

“In the past, Turkey was able to extend its hand to the Palestinians in need; either via Israel itself, or via Egypt,” wrote Murat Yetkin. “But now, because of political conflicts, Turkey has no ambassador in either of those countries, or in neighboring Syria. Turkey’s recent Middle East policies have actually crippled its ability to extend a helping hand to the Palestinians.”
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mam jalal you muste stop to cooperate more with the Arabs in irak, you should be working for the Kurdistan independence,

July 20, 2014, 4:46 am
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mam jalal you muste  stop to cooperate more with the Arabs in irak, you should be working for the Kurdistan independence,
We hope mam Mr Jalal Talabani will not help the Iraqi regime or attempt to obtain peace between Sunna and Shi'a. we hope he will work more for Kurdistan's independence. 
The Kurds have made ​​every effort to obtain freedom and democracy in Iraq, but those Arabs can not accept freedom and democracy. Right now it is still not so time to mam jalal would live so long, I think mam jalal should work with pdk and other party in Kurdistan to build up the country and get along with other a Kurdish independence. 
We Kurds can not agree more that a Kurd would help the occupying countries to be able to easily occupy so easy Kurdistan. We want that Kurdistan needs to become a country. 
long live Kurdistan long live israel. 
Right now, those who attack the daily Kurdish civilians and children in western Kurdistan are Arabs nur al Maleki and all other Arabs in Iraq as dan, who knows if Nuri Maleki would become strong will not to attack the Kurdish people and get a Anfal to? 
Nuri Maleki for a few mont ago threatened the Kurdish people, he is a danger to the Kurdish people who would cooperate with Nuri al Maleki we call them Jash 
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i support israel i love israel and kurdistan

July 20, 2014, 12:55 pm
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Kurdistan's Peshmerga force secures Kirkuk, its oil 21.7.2014

July 20, 2014, 11:34 pm
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Kurdistan's Peshmerga force secures Kirkuk, its oil  21.7.2014 
KIRKUK, Kurdistan region,— The Kurdistan regional government has sent its Peshmerga troops into the adjacent province of Kirkuk to drive out insurgents, and to secure the area's rich oil fields. By doing this, the regional government has added a fourth province to the three it officially controls. The oil also provides revenue that could make an independent Kurdistan economically strong.

Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, has fabulous oil wealth. It is an ethnically divided city. For years, Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen factions fought each other. Then, insurgents including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Syria - or ISIS - unleased their terror.


In June, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga troops, reputed to be some of the toughest fighters in this region, moved into Kirkuk to restore stability, and to protect the oil beneath it.

A monument in Kirkuk, a well-head surrounded by swords, is highly symbolic of both the value of the province’s oil, as well as the fight to control it.

Peshmerga member Mohamed Swani explains that Kirkuk’s oil now belongs to Kurds, not Baghdad, which objects to the takeover.

“Now, this place is Kurdistan. The oil is for Kurdistan. We must keep the oil, and the defense of the land, for all the places in Kurdistan.”

This reporter went out with the Peshmerga on a security patrol, to see how they keep the city and province safe, as well as the oil the Kurds want for their hoped-for independent state.
  
Since these Peshmerga patrols began in June, Kirkuk has enjoyed more peace than at any time in the past decade. While this patrol covers the city, other Peshmerga units have been out in the province driving out ISIS and other insurgents.

Some Iraqi government troops dropped their guns and ran when ISIS swept into Iraq, but the Peshmerga did the opposite - they engaged ISIS, known as Dash - and drove them out. Peshmerga Kamal Mohamed Mustapha explained.

“You know, Dash came - to try to control Kirkuk. But when we heard about Dash trying to do that, we came over to Kirkuk, and took Kirkuk from them. We kicked them out of Kirkuk now,” said Mustapha.

The Kirkuk oil field and its pipeline, and oil patch, Bai Hassan, are under Kurdish control. Their pipelines are now rerouted to send the oil north and on to Turkey, to the port of Ceyhan.

Iraq’s central government has angrily reacted to the KRG’s takeover of Kirkuk and these oil fields. But the Kurds have made it clear that they will not give them back to Baghdad. This oil, as Kamal Mohamed Mustapha says,www.Ekurd.net guarantees the viability of an independent Kurdistan.

“This oil is the future of Kurdistan, so if there is no oil, there is no future,” says Mustapha.

The Peshmerga say that if Baghdad wants to take Kirkuk back by force, they are ready to fight.

By Jeffrey Young - VOA 
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Kurdistan's national security top official warns west of Iraq blowback By Isabel Coles and Ned Parker - Reuters

July 20, 2014, 11:38 pm
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Kurdistan's national security top official warns west of Iraq blowback  By Isabel Coles and Ned Parker - Reuters
ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Western countries will end up fighting insurgents who have overrun large parts of Iraq on their own doorstep unless they intervene to combat the threat at its source, a senior Kurdish security official said in an interview.



Masrour Barzani, head of the Kurdistan region's National Security Council (Son of Kurdistan president Massoud Barzani), said he doubted Iraq's army would be able to roll back militant gains without help from outside, but that the world did not appear serious about confronting the insurgency.

Iraq's million-strong army, trained and equipped by the United States at a cost of around $25 billion, largely evaporated in the north after militants from the Islamic State overran the city of Mosul last month.

From there, they went on to seize most Sunni majority areas with little resistance, putting Iraq's very survival as a unified state in jeopardy as politicians wrangle in Baghdad over forming a government.

Barzani said Kurdistan, which has managed so far to insulate itself against violence in the rest of Iraq and neighbouring Syria, was the "frontline against terrorism" in the Middle East, and that the inaction of Western nations was at their peril.

"They have a choice: either they can come and face them here, or they can wait for them to go back to their own countries and face terrorism on their doorsteps," he told Reuters in an interview on Saturday. 

The Kurds, who have their own armed forces known as the "Peshmerge", now share all but 15 kilometres (10 miles) of their southern border with insurgents who have declared an Islamic caliphate across Iraq and Syria.    


   


For now, the militants are busy fighting what remains of the Iraqi army backed by Shi'ite militias further south, but they may eventually turn to the north, where the Kurds have expanded their territory by as much as 40 percent.

The Peshmerge have already clashed with insurgents, who are now armed with weapons seized from the Iraqi army, many of them supplied by the United States, which has urged the Kurds to take on the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIL or ISIS.

"ISIS now has a lot of modern military equipment in their possession, and to fight against them I think the Peshmerge have to be much better equipped than they are," Barzani said. "For that, the United States and the international community as a whole should feel responsible".

"We have had talks with the United States, with some of the European countries, but no practical steps have been taken to provide assistance to the KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government), especially on the military front".

"GREAT CONCERN"

Barzani put the number of Islamic State militants who took over Mosul on June 10 at fewer than 2,000, but said new recruits, fighters from Syria and capitulation of other armed factions had increased that to as many as 12,000. Another estimate by a security official in Baghdad puts the size of IS at more than 20,000 after the fall of Mosul. But there is no way to independently verify the numbers.

Many tribal and insurgent groups have made common cause with the Islamic State to fight against Shi'ite Islamist Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, but there are tensions within their ranks that have already led to infighting.

Assessing the strength of those groups relative to the Islamic State (IS), Barzani said they were "much weaker". He suggested the KRG would be prepared to work with "moderate" tribes and forces protecting their own areas from IS.

Iraqi Kurdistan has cultivated an image of relative stability in a turbulent neighbourhood, although a bombing of the headquarters of the security services in the regionalwww.Ekurd.net capital Erbil last September showed the region remained a target.

Barzani said Kurdish security services had managed to thwart "quite a few" attacks since then, and that the influx of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis displaced from other parts of the country into Kurdistan posed an added challenge.

"It makes the job of our security forces much more difficult to try to keep an eye and monitor the situation," Barzani said. "We are trying our best to make sure there are no sleeper cells activated".


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Kurdistan Region Presidency Condemns ISIS Acts Against Mosul's Christians

July 20, 2014, 11:47 pm
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Kurdistan Region Presidency Condemns ISIS Acts Against Mosul's Christians.

Salahadin, Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, (Krp.org)- In a statement released by the Spokesperson of the Kurdistan Region Presidency, the acts of the terrorist group in Mosul, ISIS against the city's Christians were strongly condemned. 

The statement stated that the terrorist group had engaged in acts of violence against the Christians of Mosul. These acts, according to the Spokesperson have caused a number of deaths among Christians, additionally, large numbers of Christians have fled to the Kurdistan Region, in hope of finding a safe place to live. 

Dr. Omid Sabah, the Spokesperson of the Kurdistan Region Presidency concluded his statement by calling upon the international community to assist the Kurdistan Region so that there can be more systemic avenues of supporting the Christians of the Mosul.
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