The London-based Centre for Kurdish Progress advocates for democracy, rule of law and peace in the Middle East. 📧 [email protected]
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Kurdish prisoner Tuncer Sağlam has died in an Ankara hospital. His family says he was not released because doctors never confirmed his suspected cancer. MED TUHAD-FED says 15 ill prisoners have died since the peace process began.
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Turkey says it will start handing its Bashiqa-Zilkan base to Baghdad, citing progress in Shengal after YBŞ integration. In Sinûnê, the Yazidi Cause Alliance demands that Shengal's elected local officials finally take office.
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A drone strike on the Khor Mor gas field near Chamchamal has halted production and cut about 2,800MW from the Kurdistan Region's grid. Baghdad and Erbil have opened a joint probe. No one has claimed the attack.
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KDP leader Masoud Barzani calls on the PUK to "sit down together" with the KDP and end the Kurdistan Region's political crisis, as the PUK moves its ministers to its own areas and parliament waits for committee nominees.
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David Lammy is right to raise the alarm. Turkish and Kurdish businesspeople from Turkey who came under the Ankara Agreement and built lives and companies in the UK are facing refusals full of errors and the threat of removal.
This echoes the Windrush failures. The Home Office must fix these cases and treat people fairly.
The Home Office's treatment of Turkish businesspeople applying for ILR through the Ankara Agreement is outrageous and reminiscent of the Windrush Scandal. Callous and careless mistakes are being made with devastating impacts. The Home Office must act now.
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Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş says a parliamentary committee to oversee Turkey's peace process will be set up without delay. DEM's Halide Türkoğlu says İmralı access, new laws and prisoner releases must not wait.
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Iran's own forensic medicine body says Kurdish political prisoner Motalleb Ahmadian, who has cancer, must be treated outside Evin Prison. The Tehran prosecutor still refuses, rights groups say. He has been held since 2010.
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Turkey's Constitutional Court rules Mazlum İçli, jailed at 14 over a 2014 Kobanê protest killing, was denied a reasoned judgment: evidence he was at a wedding 140 km away was not weighed. Retrial ordered; he stays in jail.
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The KDP says it is in contact with the PUK to end the deadlock, as PUK officials prepare to leave government offices on Sunday. Washington, the KNK and the PYD all urge dialogue to avoid rival administrations.
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Jamileh (Mina) Mohammadamin Azar has been held incommunicado since a warrantless raid on her home in Bukan on Tuesday. Her husband was released the same day; three days later her family still has no word of her.
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Mother-tongue protests spread beyond Hasakah to Qamishlo, Amuda, Girkê Legê and Rmelan. Students reject the three Kurdish lessons a week limit and demand constitutional recognition of Kurdish.
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DEM's Ayşegül Doğan: the Peace and Politicisation Board must start work, complementary laws are needed, and journalists and rights groups should visit İmralı. Kurtulmuş finishes party meetings next week.
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PUK quits the KRG cabinet and says it will mirror any KDP appointments with its own Region president and ministers. Bafel Talabani pledges no bloodshed; the KDP had not replied by late Thursday.
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Iranian intelligence agents have detained more Kurds in warrantless raids in Miandoab, Baneh and Bukan, rights groups say. Their families do not know where they are being held.
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A landmine blast in a school courtyard in Zirgan killed a 12-year-old boy and injured more than a dozen children and teachers, as more displaced families return to the countryside around Serêkaniyê.
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Kurdish students marching in Hasakah for the right to learn in their mother tongue were attacked with stones and sticks, injuring at least four. "We want our language," they chanted.
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The Kurdistan Parliament has elected Vala Farid as speaker, with all 52 MPs present voting, ending a two-year deadlock. The PUK says it will not recognise the new presidency.
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From Edirne prison, ten years after his arrest, Demirtaş says he will keep supporting the peace process. DEM leaders demand his and Yüksekdağ's release, and the Peace Mothers take their call to Speaker Kurtulmuş.
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As Americans vote in the midterms, Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner call for closer US ties with the Kurds. "There have been times... where we've not done enough to protect our Kurdish allies," Warner says.
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Iran's Supreme Court upholds the death sentence of Arman Marefati, a Kurdish protester from Saqqez, rights groups say, as two more January protesters are hanged in Isfahan. His two Kurdish co-defendants were executed in June.
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