The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has prepared this report to draw the attention of international human rights organisations to the situation of secret detention centres of two security agencies, the Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in Iranian Kurdistan.
MISSOURI, USA: Ilham Ahmed, head of the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has been lobbying Moscow and Washington to support Kurdish representation in the long-stalled, UN-backed Syrian peace process.
In its quest to fulfill its expansionist ambitions, Turkey is pursuing a systematic Turkification policy in areas under its control in northern Syria.
In line with a longstanding betrayal of the Kurds to their local oppressors, the US used the Syrian Kurds for fighting ISIS (and the Assad regime) only to betray them once their usefulness had been exhausted. Whither the Syrian Kurds?, by Spyridon Plakoudas and Wojciech Michnik, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2021
The civil war in Syria and the increasing fragility of Iraq have thrown the long-term future of these states into question.
State Department, UN and NGO Reports cite pattern of grave human rights violations, assaults and targeting of women by Turkish-controlled Islamist militias
Oppressed Kurds express culture in Australia, Australian Geographic, 2 March 2010
Erdoğan’s Fight Against the Kurds: The War No One Can Win, Prospect (UK)
