On April 10, 1997, the German court verdict implicated the top Iranian leadership –the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei; the president at the time, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani; and the foreign minister, Ali Velayati – as those who had ordered the […]
According to the Kurdish Human Rights Organization, Kurdpa, in 2021, 44 civilians were killed or wounded (9 killed and 35 injured) by mine explosions in various parts of eastern (Iranian) Kurdistan. Among the victims were four women and seven children […]
On the weekend of March 27-28 2022, the Unrepresented Nations and People’s Organization (UNPO) hold its XVIth General Assembly in Washington, DC, United States of America. A delegation of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), representing Iranian Kurdistan, attended […]
On the occasion of Kurdish New Year, Newroz, the Kurdistan Democratic Student Union, the Democratic Youth Union of Iranian Kurdistan, and the Democratic Women’s Union of Iranian Kurdistan issued a joint statement directed to the Kurdish people in Kurdistan. In […]
According to statistics reported by the Kurdpa Human Rights Organization, a total of at least 225 Kolbars were killed or wounded (42 killed, 180 wounded, 3 missing) from 21 March 2021 to 21 March 2022, in the border regions of […]
According to reports received by the Kurdistan Media website, the Iranian regime has been jamming the signals of the Tishk TV, a Kurdish satellite television, across the eastern Kurdistan. The signal jamming of Kurdish satellite televisions takes places on the […]
On the night of March 12, 2022, city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region was extensively attacked by the self-guided ballistic missile of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards resulting in damages to the civilian neighbourhoods. This is not […]
In 2010 the General Assembly of UN announced 21 March as the International Day of Nowruz. Nowruz is included in the UNESCO Intangible cultural heritage of humanity. According to the UNESCO, Newroz is celebrated as the beginning of the new […]
In a statement, the PDKI calls on the people of Kurdistan, especially members of the PDKI, to take responsibility for the environment and to reveal all those who destroy the environment and its resources. In this statement, the PDKI highlights […]
On the occasion of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2022, the human rights organization Kurdpa published a report on 47 cases of women’s rights violations in eastern [Iranian] Kurdistan in the period between March 2021 and March 2022. The […]
The PDKI is a democratic socialist party and is a member of the Socialist International (SI). For us, democratic socialism entails the belief that all human beings, whether as individuals or as members of nations, should be free and equal in all spheres of life. The PDKI’s policies on economic, political and social issues are based on these beliefs. Read more about our policies by clicking here and about our view on democratic socialism by clicking here.
