Documenting the cases of Kurdish men, women, and children who were imprisoned, unjustly killed, or forcibly disappeared for their ethnicity

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• Ferhat Taruk

  

  In Lice district of Diyarbakir Turkish soldiers opened fire on Kurdish villages which left 2 villages dead and one injured, said local sources. It is reported that Turkish soldiers in an overnight raid on Goma Ahmet hamlet close [...]

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• Ali Heydarian

  

  Kurdish human rights activist, Ali Heydarian, was arrested in August 2006. Mr. Heydarian was also charged with membership in an illegal Kurdish organization in a show trial – like many other political prisoners in Iran – that denied [...]

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• Kerem Gün

  

  Kerem Gün, former President of the Youth Wing of the banned pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), was shot dead on March 12, 2010, one day after he had been arrested in ??rnak (south-eastern Turkey). Gün allegedly ignored the [...]

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• Shirin Alam Hooli

  

  Shirin Alam Hooli was born in the village of Gheshlagh near the city of Maku in Iran. She was arrested in May of 2007 by the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran. She spent the first 25 days of her [...]

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• Tahir Ahmedi

  

  According to the report by the European Human Rights Organisation Tahir Ahmedi from the city of Xane was arrested by the Intelligent Office due to his alleged involvement with a Kurdish opposition party as well as having a [...]

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• Jalal Amini

  

  Jalal Amini was killed after he was shot by security forces in the Posht-Tab district of Mahabad. According to eyewitnesses, Amini who was armed wounded 3 security forces officers before they killed him. After the incident, intelligence forces [...]

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• Mohammed Omar

  

  Reports coming out of Syria indicate that intelligence security forces have opened fire on Kurds celebrating Norouz on March 21, 2010 in the town of Ar-Raqqah in Northern Syria. According to Kurdish reports, 15 minutes into the celebration [...]

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• Vedat Aydin

  

  The widow of slain Kurdish politician Vedat Aydin accused JiTEM of being responsible for her husband’s murder. Iükran Aydin, the wife of a murdered Kurdish politician, broke her silence 19 years after the killing of her husband, Vedat [...]

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