Mustafa Hijri, the current leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) issued a statement on the occasion of International Mother Language Day. In his statement, Hijri regards the Kurdish language as a central component of the Kurdish national […]
In a statement, the Central Command of Kurdistan’s Peshmerga Forces announced that heavy clashes erupted between a Peshmerga unit and Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on June 24, 2020, in the Halgurd Mountains. According to the statement, a […]
In a statement released on the June 24, PDKI announced that Hedayat Abdullahpour, a Kurdish political prisoner, has been executed by the Iranian regime. Hedayat Abdullahpour was sentenced to death by Iranian Supreme Court on October 8, 2018. Abdullahpour was […]
On Tuesday the 9th of July 2019, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), together with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), organised a series of events to address the continuing human rights violations against Kurds by the Islamic […]
On the evening of the 9th of July 2019, a ceremony was organized by PDKI in Brussels to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. A. R. Ghassemlou, one of the prominent Kurdish leaders and former General-Secretary of […]
The Central Command of Kurdistan’s Peshmerga Forces issued a statement on yesterday’s indiscriminate shelling of the border region between eastern (Iranian) and southern (Iraqi) Kurdistan by Iran. At approximately 11:00 in the morning (local time) on September 6, Iran’s terrorist […]
Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, or PDKI. The 73rd anniversary of PDKI was celebrated at one of the party’s bases in Kurdistan. Mustafa Hijri, the leader of PDKI, delivered a speech on the […]
PDKI leader Mustafa Hijri addressed the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC on 11 June, 2018. A transcript of Hijri’s speech follows. Due to a long tradition of state centralization in combination with the decisive role of the ideology […]
Mustafa Hijri, the leader of PDKI, delivered a speech at a rally on September 22 in support of southern (Iraqi) Kurdistan’s independence referendum. He congratulated the people of Kurdistan in advance. “Congratulation to the martyrs’ families, congratulation to the brave […]
Forced disappearances in Iran was discussed at a side event of the 36th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva on September 20. PDKI’s representative in Geneva Baban Eliassi spoke at the event. Eliassi highlighted […]
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