The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDK) is a center-left Kurdish political party, founded in the Kurdish region of Iran upon Qazi Muhammad’s declaration …
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Sheikh Said of Piran was a Kurdish Sunni religious leader and freedom fighter originally from a village in Bismil town of Amed (Diyarbakir). Sheikh …
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Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji was born in 1878 in Sulayimaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. During the British occupation of Iraq following the First World War, …
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Washington Kurdish Institute July 24, 2018 Part II of a series on Turkey’s future This week’s report, the second in our series on today’s Turkey, discusses …
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Iran The Iran-based Kurdistan’s Free Life Party (PJAK), an offshoot of Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was responsible for the deaths of eleven Islamic …
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Mustafa Barzani was born in Barzan, a village in Iraqi Kurdistan (then the Ottoman Empire) in 1903. Barzani was appointed Minister of Defense for …
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Abdullah Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949 and grew up in a large family in the village of Amara (called Omerli in Turkish) …
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Mam Jalal is the son of Sheik Hisamadeen of Sheik Nuri, the son of Sheik Ghafour. He was born in Kalkan village at the …
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Qazi Muhammad was born in Mahabad, Kurdish region of Iran (then called Persia) in 1893. A well-known and educated leader, Qazi Muhammad led a …
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Iran Members of the Iranian intelligence service known as Ettela’at, arrested several Kurdish activists on a recent raid. The Kurdistan Human Rights Association reported …