2025-05-10T23:14:37+00:00 Shafaq News/ Authorities in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, launched a scientific assessment of the historic Al-Muzaffariyah Minaret amid growing concerns over its tilt and potential risk of collapse, local officials said ...

Kurdish political prisoner Warisha Moradi, who is on death row in Iran, is being denied access to vital medical care despite suffering from serious health conditions, including a herniated cervical disc and spinal canal stenosis, ...

The preparatory committee of the Euphrates Canton Education Institution, together with students and educators from Kobanê University, kicked off the events to mark Kurdish Language Day on May 15. Mazlum Cimo, a member of the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made his first statement after the PKK announced that it had held its 12th Congress upon the call of Abdullah Öcalan to disband and disarm. ANF NEWS DESK Saturday, 10 ...

Azhdar Piri, editor-in-chief of the international monthly Pazhouhesh-e Melal (Nations Research), was sentenced to one year in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state”, with the additional penalty of a two-year ban on online ...

Following Abdullah Öcalan’s historic call on February 27, the ‘Initiative for Unity’ was established in Amed (tr: Diyarbakır) under the leadership of Kurdish political parties, civil society organizations, opinion leaders, representatives of faith and democratic ...

In Amed (tr: Diyarbakır), the Free Women’s Movement (TJA) and the Peace Mothers Initiative gathered at the Bağcılar district office of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) on the occasion of Mother’s Day. ...

Following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the CHP is holding weekly rallies in different cities. This week’s rally was held in Van province. ‘The ruling power is hostile to the Kurds and the ...

The invading Turkish army continues its aerial and ground bombardment of the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) despite the PKK having ceased fire on March 1. Despite a ceasefire declared unilaterally ...

The Kevana Zerin Cultural and Art Movement Committee paid tribute to artist and guerrilla Hozan Mizgîn (Gurbet Aydın), who fell as a martyr in Tatvan on 11 May 1992. The statement said that 11 May ...