We are the undersigned organizations, urge you to take immediate action to help save the lives of Kurdish Prisoners on hunger strike in Iran and to ask the Iranian authorities to comply with the hunger strikers demands for humane and decent treatment, in accordance with internationally recognized standards of human rights and international law.

Amendments to a law punishing insults to Turkish identity which the Turkish parliament adopted on 30 April are "cosmetic and insufficient," Reporters Without Borders said today. Dozens of writers and journalists have been convicted under the law, article 301 of the criminal code, since its introduction in 2005.

As four more rockets thumped into buildings in the Baghdad Green Zone on Tuesday, it became devastatingly clear that promises made by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his trip to Iraq in early March were worthless. According to reports, two of the rockets landed in Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's compound but mercifully there were no deaths or serious injuries.

The fact that PKK is a movement of a nation which emerged deep inside the Kurdish elite is not a matter of denial, however it is clear for many people who familiar with the Kurdish issue that PKK appeared and developed as a result of historical necessity in the certain period of the time and its aim and goal has been also well-defined for these whom blind-folded their eyes in the reality of Kurdish people for many years.

Therefore, Turkey and Iran adapted a different method to fight and constant their brutal suppression. On the 14/March/2008 head of Turkish Chamber visited Iran companied by the Turkish Intelligent officials “mead”. The purpose of that visit was not merely economic; both sides discussed some other key purposes and factors including the current bombardments of Southern Kurdistan by the Iranian artilleries’.

Abdullah Ocalan was born to a poor family in 1949 in the village of Omerli, situated in the city of Urfa, which in turn in the Kurdistan region of Turkey. Once he finished his primary and secondary schooling he progressed onto working as a civil servant in the city of Diyarbekir. From there he moved he enrolled onto the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Ankara.

The European Parliament has overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution that condemned Iran's execution this week of Zamel Bawi (pictured), a son of moderate Ahwazi Arab tribal leader Hajj Salem Bawi.

London, 25.1.08--The Iranian government released the identities of six young Baluch men that maybe executed or hanged in a near future after they were summarily tried without the presence of lawyers on charges of being members People's Resistance Movement of Iran (PMRI).

Iran's regime was yesterday accused of trying to secure an "obedient parliament" after almost a third of the potential candidates in next month's general election were banned from standing.

Israel is a state in the Middle East surrounded by states that do not recognise it. This very system of the Middle East is also the same system that does not recognise the Kurds. For this reason Israel and the Kurds are interlinked.

Crude oil rose after Turkish planes attacked suspected Kurdish insurgent bases and the Houston Ship Channel reopened following an 18-hour shutdown for fog.
Turkish jets bombed positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party in northern Iraq today.

After another patrol of brave journalists yesterday arrived at the towering mountain of Qandil, three of whom were members of CHAK, they returned today passing by the last check-point of security forces of the region in Sangasar area

The traditional concern about Iran's capability to deliver a nuclear weapon involves an Iranian ballistic missile that could reach the United States from Iran. Therefore, in this piece I describe the current state and expected time when Iran could achieve these capabilities on the basis of recent statements by U.S. government officials, the unclassified portion of the December 2007 Iran National Intelligence Estimate [PDF], and data from an April 2006 interview with the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization.

ABU DHABI, Jan 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush accused Iran on Sunday of threatening security around the world by backing militants and urged his Gulf Arab allies to confront "this danger before it is too late".

Having given no support to Turkey's struggle against the PKK for a long time, the US supported the Turkish army's recent bombing of the Qandil Mountain.