Dear Ms. Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO As the International Mother Language Day on February 21 approaches, we, the Cooperation Center of Iranian Kurdistan’s Political Parties, would like to take the occasion to inform you about the appalling human rights situation […]
In a statement, PDKI calls on the Kurdish people in eastern (Iranian) Kurdistan as well as the Kurds in the diaspora to support southern (Iraqi) Kurdistan’s independence referendum on September 25, 2017. In its statement, PDKI emphasizes the legitimate right […]
Since PDKI embarked on a new phase in its liberation struggle in 2015, the Iranian regime has responded by militarizing eastern (Iranian) Kurdistan. In particular, Iran has massed thousands of troops along the border with southern (Iraqi) Kurdistan in close […]
Residents of the Kurdish city of Bane staged a peaceful demonstration today, September 5, 2017, to condemn the killing of Kurdish Kolbars (porters) by Iranian paramilitary forces. In a statement, PDKI’s leadership calls on people in other Kurdish cities to […]
Urban PDKI Peshmerga units carried out a successful military operation against Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) outside the city of Shno (Oshnavieh). On August 21, 2017 at 21:30, urban Peshmerga units carried out a military operation on the […]
PDKI Peshmerga Forces carried out two operations against Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Shno and Piranshar on August 8, 2017. The Peshmerga Forces carried out an operation in the Pshti Trke mountain outside Piranshar, in a place […]
PDKI’s Peshmerga Forces clashed with Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Piranshar on August 5, 2017. The clash erupted around 23:00 local time when Iran’s terrorist IRGC ambushed a platoon of the Peshmerga Forces. In the ensuing clash […]
On December 17, 1945, the PDKI overtook the last Iranian military barrack in Mahabad and raised the Kurdish flag. The Peshmerga Forces of Kurdistan was officially founded on the same day. Since then, and every year on December 17, the […]
The Operational Command of PDKI’s Peshmerga Forces announced earlier today that Rasol Mehamadzadeh, a loyal and brave Peshmerga, was martyred in battle with the Islamic State (IS) in Mosul. Since the beginning of the operation to liberate Mosul, a special […]
PDKI’s new strategy of linking the struggle of the Peshmerga Forces in mountains with that of the civilian population in the cities of eastern (Iranian) Kurdistan has presented the Islamist regime in Iran with different challenges. The Iranian regime has […]
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