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PRESS RELEASE 18 November 2016 Kurdish National Council in Syria – Geneva Office On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, in ʿAmudah employees of Asayiș, the security forces of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), stormed the premises of the radio station Amûdê FM and arrested four staff members, namely Noshin Ahmad, Ava Khano, Pesheng Khane and Sipan […]
Continue reading ʿAmudah – Along the lines of Stalinism: PYD security forces shut down another radio and raid Yekîtî officeOn Friday, October 28, 2016, around 1 pm (local time), a group of hooded PYD members in a car abducted Mohamad Ameen Rashid, member of the local committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Syria (PDK-S), in front of the city bakery of al-Malikiyah (Dêrik). Later that day around 5 pm, Ahmad Shanke, another member […]
Continue reading Again KNC members abducted by PYD militiasPRESS RELEASE Kurdish National Council in Syria – Geneva Office 21 October 2016 PYD extends compulsory service and turns young Kurds into cannon fodder In June 2014, the Legislative Council for the Jazirah, appointed by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), passed a law on compulsory military service. The law provides that every family offers a […]
Continue reading PYD extends compulsory service and turns young Kurds into cannon fodderSince August, the PYD has detained dozens of activists, members and officials of the Kurdish National Council in Syria. The reason given is their participation in a funeral cortege of a Peshmerga who lost his life fighting against the Islamic State in Kurdistan Iraq. The PYD withholds all information regarding their whereabouts and their general […]
Continue reading Appeal regarding the political detainees in PYD prisons
Berlin, 23 September 2016 One month after the abduction and unlawful expulsion of Ibrahim Biro, the president of the Kurdish National Council in Syria, a KNC delegation, composed of Ibrahim Biro, Kamiran Hajo, chairman of the KNC Foreign Relations Office, and Siamend Hajo, representative of the Foreign Relations Office, was received today in the German […]
Continue reading German Chancellery welcomes the KNC and rejects the oppressive politics of the PYD