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The Iranian Islamic laws consider women second-class citizens, thus promoting discrimination, unfair treatments, and inequality beyond brutality towards them. Countless political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, continue to serve sentences that were imposed on them through unfair trials.  Women of lower socio-economic status and/or women from religious and ethnic minority groups suffer disproportionately from such …

Calls for the Freedom of Kurdish Women Activists in Iran Read More »

Despite all the opportunities to resolve the Kurdish conflict in Northern Kurdistan through peaceful and democratic means, Turkey went on with its violence and attacked Southern Kurdistan under the pretext of chasing PKK fighters. The PKK has repeatedly declared ceasefires and confirmed that their fighters are now stationed inside Turkish territory.  After decades of assaults …

KNC-NA condemns recent escalation of violence by Turkey Read More »

The European Union Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) held its fourth international conference on EU, Turkey, and the Kurds on December 3-4, 2007 in the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. The aim of EUTCC is evaluating the readiness of Turkey to join the EU. Many invited Kurdish, Turkish and international experts gave a report on the …

Report on the Fourth International Conference on EU, Turkey, and the Kurds Read More »

The Kurdish National Congress of North America  P.O. Box 1663, P.O. Box 7033,  Lake Forest, CA 92630 Windsor, ONT Tel/Fax: 949-583-1417  USA N9A 2N9, CANADA www.kncna.org.  Press Release  Missing Historical Opportunity  Article 140  December 31st, 2007  The creation of modern Iraq by the Allies in the aftermath of World War I brought Kurdish people nothing …

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By: Borzou Daragahi In 1983, the men of Barzan were taken by Hussein’s troops, never to be seen again. But the women still wait.  By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 9, 2007  BARZAN, Iraq – Patience, the mothers begged their children. Saddam Hussein will fall. Liberty will come. Your father will return. …

Kurdish widows’ lives frozen in time Read More »

In tandem with their military build up to invade the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Turkish regime has launched vicious and false media propaganda to silence any voice speaking against their invasion. They have targeted the KNC with their smear campaign of false accusations.  Since its inception in 1988 as a reaction to the Halabja …

KNC Statement on False Accusations by Turkish Intelligence Units Read More »

PM Erdogan to submit detailed PKK report to Bush Turkey has launched its most comprehensive and diplomatic crackdown to date on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has cost Turkey about 33,000 lives and $100 bln over the course of 21 years.  At a meeting of its influential National Security Council (MGK) held last …

Turkish Government Accuses WKI, AKIN and KNC Read More »

A Flawed Plan is Revived Unchanged

The Kurdish National Congress of North America  P.O. Box 1663, P.O. Box 7033,  Lake Forest, CA 92630 Windsor, ONT Tel/Fax: 949-583-1417  USA N9A 2N9, CANADA www.kncna.org.  Press Release  Massacre of Yezidi Kurds  Kurdish National Congress of North America along with the entire Kurdish Nation is deeply saddened by the horrific terrorist acts against our nation …

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEWS RELEASE August 1, 2007 Contact: John Rankin 515-221-1001 media@brownback.com  DES MOINES – U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, Republican candidate for president, outlined a “diplomatic surge” for Iraq that would aim for long-term stability by creating a soft partition for the three major ethnic groups in Iraq, with Baghdad serving as the seat …

Brownback Outlines “Diplomatic Surge” for Iraq Read More »