May 7, 2025
2025-05-07T21:54:35+00:00 Shafaq News/ Iran’s Ilam University has launched a landmark literary conference, From Persian Poetry to Kurdish-Ilamic, highlighting poetic translation and introducing the region’s first academic workshop on Kurdish-Ilamic orthography. The event, jointly organized by ...
The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 workers have ...
Image Credits:Tesla 2:15 PM PDT · May 7, 2025 Tesla’s attempt to trademark the term “Robotaxi” in reference to its vehicles has been refused by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for being too generic, ...
A vigil by the Democratic Kurdish Community in Switzerland has been taking place in front of the UN headquarters in Geneva since 25 January 2021. Every Wednesday, activists stage a protest in front of the ...
Under current circumstances, despite the democratic and pro-European aspirations of a large part of Turkish society, Turkey’s EU accession process cannot resume, MEPs say in a report adopted on Wednesday with 367 votes in favour, ...
Motalleb Ahmadian, a 42-year-old Kurdish political prisoner serving the 15th year of a 30-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison, went on a hunger strike on 5 May, protesting the Tehran Prosecutor’s refusal to grant him ...
A historic step is being taken for Kurds living in Europe: the first Kurdish university outside Kurdistan is set to begin academic life in 2026. The team conducting the establishment work is focusing on budget ...
The civil war and power vacuum in Syria have led to systematic attacks targeting Alawite communities. Alawite IDPs who fled the conflict in the country and sought refuge in the Autonomous Administration regions in North-East ...
Several people from Eastern Kurdistan and the diaspora have launched a petition calling for the death sentence handed down to Pakshan Azizi to be overturned. The organizers of the campaign emphasized that Azizi’s life is ...
The Kurdish population in Iran continues to suffer never-ending repression at the hands of the regime’s forces. ANF NEWS DESK Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 13:51 Security forces today arrested Kurdish civilians Omid Ebrahimi, Yasser Sharifian, ...
