It’s known that we as PJAK, from the foundation of our movement have worked and endeavoured to solve the Kurdish issue in a democratic way, and our work has generated new hope and confidence in our people in the East of Kurdistan. In respond to our endeavour the Iranian regime has restored to violence and military operations, instead of democratic solution.

Kenneth R. Timmerman - The Washington Times

With the Middle East coming apart at the seams and no coherent policy or set of principles to guide policy, the Obama administration should support the people of Iran, the one country where the population remains resolutely pro-American and firmly opposed to the dictators who have been waging war on America for the past 31 years.

Legitimate self-preservation in East Kurdistan guarantees our people’s lives from state terror

During the visit of Iranian Foreign Minster Ali Akber Salehi with his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari in 5th January, the Kurdish resistance movement led by the Free Life Party of Party (PJAK) was labelled as “terrorist”. Based on this, clarification of some issues for the public opinion is required.

Your Holiness Pope
Dear Benedict XVI

This is Christmas time and the majority of people in the world do celebrate such a holy fest. Families have gathered to honour Christmas, to share joys and to exchange gift and greetings. Parents are happy to see their children around and the families do celebrate and enjoy the moments of togetherness. But in such a holy day and honourable time the execution of a Kurdish student is decreed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Kurdish parents receive the execution news of their children as the Christmas gift and the Kurdish people are given a message that contains denial of their identity as a distinct being.

Kardo Bokani

Over the course of last few months the Iranian soldiers have set fires on the Kurdish forests in more than 800 times destroying more than 7000 hectares of lands. The Iranian militaries have argued that the forests and the jungles have been used by the Kurdish guerrillas; hence they should blaze in inferno for the ‘sin’ they have committed against the rule of God on the earth. The Iranian officials have failed to realise that the forests have not been used by the Kurdish guerrillas and the guerrillas have not certain easy-target places. The fact that decimation of more than 7000 hectares of Kurdish forests has not cost a life of a single Kurdish guerrilla, too well explains this claim.

Alan Rebin:

The Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) came to existence as the result of historic demands of the Kurdish nation in East of Kurdistan. PJAK owes its legitimacy to the demands and aspirations of the Kurdish people expressed following the abduction of the Kurdish National Leader Mr Abdulla Ocalan, known as Leader Apo among Kurds, in 1999. From the outset in 2004, PJAK has sought to find a peaceful and political solution to the Kurdish issue in this part of Kurdistan. To show its abhorrence for violence and hostility, PJAK has periodically called on the Iranian government to stop its military operations in Kurdistan and lay the basis for negotiation for a peaceful settlement to the Kurdish issue. Nonetheless the Iranian regime has failed to appreciate PJAK’ call to solve the Kurdish question and responded to the Kurds militarily.

While we are entering the 12th anniversary of the onset of the international conspiracy against the Kurdish people, similar efforts based on the same mentality aimed at the liquidation of Kurdish national will, have been constantly in place.

Iranian theoretic regime has applied all possible methods in its battle against the Kurdish resistance movement in the Eastern Kurdistan. But none of such inhuman and vicious methods has demonstrated the potential to deter the Kurdish people from pursuing their goals.

When President Obama announced his new vision for diplomacy and identified himself a “Citizen of the world,” oppressed people from around the world welcomed the opportunity presented by the first US President who was perceived to have a deeper understanding of human suffering and the cruel policies of oppression still practiced in some parts of the world including Kurdistan under Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.

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.