October 19, 2025
The Institute for Kurdish Higher Studies (IKHS) held its second International Founding Conference in Dresden, at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum. The two-day event brought together academics, politicians, and experts from various countries to engage in comprehensive ...
A well-attended conference took place in Vienna over the weekend under the motto “Building a democratic society with free leadership.” The event was organized by the Federation of Democratic Kurdish Society in Austria (FEY-KOM). Numerous ...
More than 1,500 prisoners sentenced to death and held in Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Iran, have been on hunger strike since October 15 to protest executions. Over the past few days, 17 prisoners have ...
The Kurdish Culture and History Festival was organized by the Kurdistan Information Office, the Cultural Department of the City of Rome, the solidarity platform Rete Kurdistan, the Italian “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan” campaign, and the ...
The Military Council in Deir ez-Zor, in cooperation with the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), held an expanded meeting that included tribal elders and intellectuals from al-Busayrah, al-Shuhail, and al-Dhiban. The meeting aimed to discuss the ...
Kurdish activist Azad Haji-Mirzaei was arrested in Sanandaj on 15 October. His family is yet to be informed of his fate or whereabouts. ANF NEWS DESK Sunday, 19 October 2025, 16:04 The Kurdistan Human Rights ...
In the province of Van, numerous taxi drivers protested for the investigation of the death of student Rojin Kabaiş. Despite a ban by the university administration, some drivers joined the ongoing protest by students on ...
The co-chairs of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan, visited Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş in the high-security prison in Edirne. Following the meeting with the former co-chair of ...
The 1st International Environmental Conference (Eco Kurdistan), organized by the Biology Department at Sulaymaniyah University, has begun. The two-day conference will address issues such as environmental pollution, climate change, water resource management, and the protection ...
The grape harvest season has begun in Northern Kurdistan (Bakur). Confronted with grapes burned by drought, villagers began gathering what remained of the crop to make molasses and walnut sausage. As the weather grows colder, ...
