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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 339

Kurds

File: Members of Turkish Police Special Forces secure the area near the Interior Ministry following a bomb attack in Ankara, on October 1, 2023. (Adem Altan/AFP)
October 3, 2023, 1:31 pm
Nearly 1,000 arrested as Turkey cracks down on Kurdish group after suicide blast
55 detainees suspected of being part of ‘intelligence structure’ of outlawed PKK, another 928 held for firearms offences in related sweeps across country, minister says
By Agencies
A woman in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, looks at a screen on on November 4, 2022, displaying an undated video of Iranian journalist Nazila Maroufian. (Alex MITA / AFP)
August 13, 2023, 10:26 pm
Iranian reporter freed after jail sentence for interviewing father of Mahsa Amini
Nazila Maroufian defiantly posts headscarf-less picture upon release from Evin prison, says health scare was not heart attack
By AFP
Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
August 6, 2023, 6:18 pm
Kurdish woman sews lips shut in Iran prison protest
Soheila Mohammadi, a mother who has served 3 years out of a 5-year sentence, reportedly launches hunger strike in protest of not being permitted furlough
By AFP
Mourners carry the bodies of Kurdish victims killed the previous night by Turkish-backed fighters amid Nowruz New Year celebrations in Jindayris in the rebel-held province of Aleppo, during a mass funeral in Jindayris on March 21, 2023. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)
March 21, 2023, 7:08 pm
Killing of Kurds in northern Syria sparks protests, tensions
Thousands take to streets after four Syrian Kurds killed by Turkish-backed armed group in town of Jinderis as they celebrated Nowruz holiday
By GHAITH ALSAYED
This photograph taken on December 24, 2022, shows tribute candles and pictures of three victims of a shooting on December 23, 2022, Mir Perwer (L), Emine Kara and Abdurrahman Kizil, in front of the "Centre democratique du Kurdistan" (Kurdistan democratic center) in Paris (Julie SEBADELHA / AFP)
December 25, 2022, 2:50 pm
Paris Kurdish center shooting suspect admits to ‘pathological’ hatred of foreigners
Gun enthusiast with previous convictions for racist violence accused of killing 3; community members say French security services didn’t do enough to prevent attack
By AFP
Supporters and members of the Kurdish community hold portraits of victims Emine Kara and Mir Perwer during a demonstration a day after a gunman opened fire at a Kurdish cultural centre killing three people, at The Place de la Republique in Paris on December 24, 2022. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
December 25, 2022, 6:13 am
Gunman who shot dead 3 at Paris Kurdish center transferred to psychiatric facility
Doctor rules custody not an option for 69-year-old suspect, named by media as William M., who has long history of weapons offenses and has told investigators his motive was racist
By Murielle Kasprzak and Alexandre Hielard
Kurdish activist and anti-racism groups stage a protest holding Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, flag and pictures of the recent victims of a shooting at the Kurdish culture center in Paris, December 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
December 24, 2022, 3:09 pm
Kurdish community, anti-racism groups hold demonstration after deadly Paris shooting
Thousands gather at Place de la Republique, waving various political flags; some youths clash with police
By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and Angela Charlton
A fire brigade ambulance is see behind police tape where a shooting took place in Paris, France, December 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
December 24, 2022, 12:39 pm
Gunman who killed three at Paris Kurdish culture center admits being ‘racist’
Attacker, named by French media as William M., has history of violence and weapons offenses; local Kurdish community to hold demonstration
By Alexandre Hielard and Murielle Kasprzak
Members of the Kurdish community clash with French police officers at the scene of a deadly shooting in Paris, December 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
December 23, 2022, 9:22 pm
Protesters clash with cops in Paris after deadly shooting at Kurdish cultural center
Demonstrators say French security services didn’t do enough to prevent attack; minister: gunman was clearly after foreigners but no evidence yet he specifically targeted Kurds
By Agencies
In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a police motorcycle and a trash bin are burning during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the nation's morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo)
October 9, 2022, 1:12 pm
‘A time bomb’: Anger rises in Kurdish city at heart of Iran protests
Women in Sanandaj describe the rage fueling the demonstrations against the Islamic Republic, and the difficulties in keeping protests going amid draconian Iranian repression
By SAMYA KULLAB and SALAR SALIM
People gather with Kurdish flags during a demonstration denouncing the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini -- who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities -- by Iraqi and Iranian Kurds outside the UN offices in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on September 24, 2022. (SAFIN HAMED / AFP)
September 30, 2022, 10:13 pm
Kurdish exiles back Iran protests but deny orchestrating unrest
Tehran has accused dissidents who fled of fomenting protests following death of Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini, but groups insist demonstrations being organized locally
By SALAR SALIM
A woman holds up a sign depicting a picture of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities, during a solidarity demonstration in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on September 25, 2022. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
September 28, 2022, 1:03 pm
Mahsa Amini died after ‘blow to head’ in Iranian police custody, says cousin in Iraq
Using her Kurdish name, Erfan Salih accuses morality police of beating Jhina Amina for allegedly violating dress code during her 1st-ever trip to Tehran, putting her in a coma
By Shwan Mohammed
Militiamen of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, September 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Balint Szlanko)
September 27, 2022, 1:26 am
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard strikes Kurds in Iraq, as anti-regime protests rage
Kurdish separatist groups near Iranian border say no casualties in wave of drone and artillery attacks; Tehran says Kurds smuggling weapons to protesters
By SALAR SALIM
Mahsa Amini, 22, who died after being arrested by Iranian modesty police. (Social media.Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law )
September 19, 2022, 12:06 pm
Tehran police chief denies mistreatment caused death of young woman in custody
Police say Mahsa Amini, 22, died of heart attack after arrest last week for alleged fault with hijab; activists claim she was killed by blow to head
By ToI Staff and AP
Screen grab of a video apparently showing a protest in Kamyaran, Iran after the execution of Heidar Ghorbani, Decemebr 19, 2021 (Screen grab)
December 20, 2021, 12:18 pm
Iran executes Kurdish prisoner, sparking rare protests
Heidar Ghorbani’s trial deemed unfair due to forced confessions; crowd gathers in his hometown of Kamyaran in western Iran, chanting ‘martyrs don’t die’
By AFP
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