In a statement, PDKI’s Policy-Making Center expresses its support for the recent demonstrations in Iran. PDKI also stresses that coordinated and country-wide demonstrations are required to replace the Islamist dictatorship with a democratic government that respects the rights of the […]
In a statement, the Central Command of Kurdistan’s Peshmerga Forces confirmed that a high-ranking member of Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guards by the name of Taimor Hussein Beig was killed in a successful operation on June 24 in the Kurdish […]
The Central Command of Kurdistan’s Peshmerga Forces released a statement earlier today regarding a clash between the Peshmerga Forces and Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that took place on the evening of June 23. A number of IRGC […]
Nine members of Iran’s terrorist Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed and eighteen were injured in a clash with Kurdistan’s Peshmerga Forces outside the Kurdish city of Shno (Oshnavieh) on June 8, 2018. The Central Command of Kurdistan’s Peshmerga Forces […]
For the past three weeks, the cities in eastern (Iranian) Kurdistan bordering southern (Iraqi) Kurdistan have witnessed strikes in response to the Iranian regime’s closure of the border crossings. In a statement issued today, PDKI is calling on the people of eastern […]
On March 1, 2018, the Iranian regime carried out a terrorist attack against two members of PDKI in Hawler (Erbil), the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Unfortunately, one of the victims, 33-year-old Sabah Rahmani, died yesterday. The latest Iranian terrorist attack […]
A PDKI peshmerga, Salah Rahmani, and his son, Sabah Rahmani, were severely injured in a car bomb in a suburb to Hawler (Erbil), the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Salah Rahmani, a Peshmerga commander, had prior to today’s terrorist attack received […]
The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, or PDKI, held its 16th Congress in late February 2018 in an undisclosed location in Kurdistan. In spite of threats from the Iranian Islamist regime, PDKI managed to hold a successful congress. The 16th Congress may be described as […]
Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the Republic of Kurdistan. On January 22, 1946, Qazi Mohammad – revered as Peshawa (meaning leader in Kurdish) among the Kurdish nation – declared the Republic of Kurdistan in the city of Mahabad in […]
In a statement, PDKI condemns Turkey’s attack on the Kurdish city of Afrin in western (Syrian) Kurdistan. PDKI calls on the international community not to remain silent and to take action in order to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Syrian Kurdistan. Turkey has for […]
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