KURDISTAN

Fifteen Kurdish parliamentarians criticized the repeated abuses, on state television, of non-Persian nationalities in Iran, and one of the parliamentarians said that the Kurds are the oldest in Iran and they are an indigenous people.

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) bloc in the Iraqi parliament called on the government of Başûr Kurdistan, (north of Iraq inhabited by the Kurds) to hand over the agreed quantities of oil to the federal government to solve the problem of the unpaid salaries, and also called on the federal government to fulfill its obligations.

The General Command of the People's Defense Center revealed the outcome of the operations carried out by Guerrilla during 2020, and indicated that it had eliminated 1,005 Turkish soldiers, including nine high-ranking military officers.

The information received about Turkish plans to send Syrian mercenaries to Başûr (southern Kurdistan) raises fears that Turkey is seeking to stir up sectarian and ethnic strife and seditions in the region, and observers indicate to Turkish plans to build a state for mercenaries and their families on the northern border strip of Iraq and Syria.

The Kurdish Action Group in South Africa (KHRAG) and the Federation of Trade Unions in South Africa (COSATU) launched a campaign entitled “Freedom for Leader Abdullah Ocalan for Equal Peace in Turkey,” and called on the United Nations to take immediate action to release Ocalan.

The Turkish occupation army bombed Berwarî Bala area in Başûrê Kurdistan, South Kurdistan.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has driven into wedge in the Kurdish body, as the residents of Mexmûr‎ camp, which has been under siege for more than a year and half by the KDP. They IDPs are not surprised of new attacks on the camp, calling on the people and all political and cultural forces, academics and Kurdish intellectuals to confront it.

The Conference of the Kurdistan Democratic Society in- Europe (KCDK-E) called for a rallying around the resistance of political detainees in Turkish prisons, and for their voices to be heard by international organizations, including the European Committee against Torture and Amnesty International.

Two women were killed in the Turkish city of Istanbul, while the authorities arrested a Kurdish woman in Jazir district of the state of Şirnak in northern Kurdistan (Bakur), according to the Euphrates News Agency.

In a new escalation, the Democratic Party (PDK) has embarked on a campaign to cut down trees in the areas near Guerilla fighters, in order to build military points there.

Two European professors condemned the German authorities' confiscation of copies of their joint book " Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Ocalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdogan's Turkey " on the Kurdish issue.

Intellectuals have unanimously agreed that the continuation of the strict isolation on the leader Abdullah Ocalan aims in the first place to maintain the capitalist system's hegemony, and to prevent the spread of the modern democratic ideology proposed by the leader Abdullah Ocalan.