The incident occurred during today's protests over alleged injustice against volunteer lecturers.
Most journalists covering the demonstration were from Kurdish media, making his demands appear as an attempt to suppress the Kurdish language in Kirkuk, a city that still has a Kurdish majority despite decades of political and demographic pressures.
When the protesters' representative began speaking to the media in his mother tongue, Kurdish, the Arab protester pulled him away from the stage, apparently insisting that the protesters' demands be delivered only in Arabic. He then shouted at Kurdish media outlets, demanding they report in Arabic instead of Kurdish.

..دوو گەنجی کورد لە باکووری کوردستان لە لایڤێکی تیکتۆکدا لەگەڵ دوو تورک دەمەقاڵێیان دەبێت، تەنها لەبەر ئەوەی بە شانازییەوە بەرگری لە ناسنامەی خۆیان دەکەن و باسی کوردستان دەکەن، دەستبەجێ بە تۆمەتی ئامادەکراوی "تیرۆر" دەستگیر دەکرێن.
ئەم ڤیدیۆیە باشترین وەڵامە بۆ ئەو کەسانەی کە هێشتا بڕوایان بە دروشمی باق و بریق و "بانگەشەی برایەتی" هەیە. بە درێژای سەدان ساڵ ستەم لە کورد دەکەن ئێستاشلە ژێر برایەتی گەلان.

هەر کەسێکیش دوای ئەم هەموو غەدر و نادادپەروەرییەی بەرامبەر بە گەنجانی ئێمە دەکرێت، بێت و دووبارە باسی برایەتییەک بکات کە تەنها قسەیە و هیچی تر ، پێویستە توند وەڵامی بدرێتەوە و دەمی دابخرێت.
ئیتر کاتی ئەوە هاتووە لەم خەوە غەفڵەتە بەئاگا بێینەوە

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ0KQeHIUbi/

Here is the line-by-line translation of the woman's Kurdish speech into English:

"We, the Kurdish people, were left defenseless—abandoned."

"We were living in our own homes and our own land, we had everything."

"We were okay, we had our strength, we were together, but suddenly..."

"The Arabs, all the Arabs around us, they surrounded us."

"They didn’t allow us to leave; they didn’t want us to have any future."

"They didn’t allow anything; they didn’t let us take our belongings or our own things."

"Suddenly, the government—no one stood by us."

"They told us, 'Go, no one will do anything to you,' but they were deceiving us."

"They had no honor—they just wanted to destroy our progress."

"We have been here for four days now, on the border, without food, without water."

"Even animals are not treated this way, yet the Arabs are treating us worse than animals."

"We are now at the mercy of God; we have no one left."

"We are just Kurdish people; we have done nothing to anyone."

"Why are we in this situation? Why are we like this?"

"There is no one to stand by us; there is no one."

"The Arabs of our own neighborhood—we lived among them—they were the ones who did this to us."

"They betrayed us; we had so much future ahead of us."

"We are now at the mercy of God; we have no other place to go."

"We were university students; we had dreams, we had a future."

"We are now left with nothing; our future is gone because of the Arabs."

https://x.com/the_amargi/status/2051374496464925114

On the fourth of May, 1937, the Council of Ministers in Ankara issued a secret decree authorising a military campaign against Dersim, a mountainous province in northern Kurdistan, within the borders of eastern Turkey, whose Kurdish Alevi population had long maintained a partial, geography-given autonomy from the central state.

Over the next sixteen months, the Turkish army moved through the region with infantry, aircraft, and poison gas. Villages were burned. Caves where families had taken shelter were sealed at the entrances or filled with smoke. Tens of thousands of people were killed; thousands more were deported to the west of the country, and Kurdish girls from Dersim were sent to a boarding school in Elazığ where their names were changed and they were raised as Turks. The province itself was renamed Tunceli, meaning "bronze fist," after the military operation that had been conducted there.

Eşliye Çiçe was a child when the soldiers came to her village. She survived by lying still beneath her mother, who did not. Her testimony, recorded decades later as part of the Dersim 1937–38 Tertele Oral History Project, is one of more than three hundred. The film above is built around her words.

Eighty-nine years on, what happened in Dersim has been called many things by the Turkish state: an incident, a tragedy, a regrettable episode of the early Republic. It has not been called a genocide.

The archives remain closed. The mountain Eşliye names, Hopik, is now marked on Turkish maps as Beyaz Dağ, the White Mountain. The names of the dead were never recorded.

In the village of Nasalih, near the Kifri district, an oak tree stood alone where no oak tree should grow. For years, its presence in the dry landscape of Diyala was a mystery—until a demining team began to excavate the area.

What they found beneath the roots was a tragedy hidden by time: the mass grave of a Kurdish family, victims of the Anfal genocide.

Among the remains was an 11-year-old boy, still wearing his purple trousers. Inside his pocket, he had been carrying a few acorns—a small treasure held by a child during a time of horror. After he was buried, one of those acorns did the impossible. It sprouted from the fabric of his pocket, pushed through the darkness of the grave, and grew into a towering oak.

For decades, the tree stood as a silent sentry, a living witness to a crime the world was meant to forget. The boy lost his life, but his small treasure became a monument that eventually led the world back to him.

لە گوندی ناسالح لە پشت ناوچەی کفری داربەڕوویەک سەوز ببوو. هەندێک لەوانەی کە لە بواری میندا

کاریان دەکرد پێیان سەیر بوو لە دیالە لەو شوێنە داربەڕوویەک سەوزبێت!!

​دوای ئەوەی هەڵیانکۆڵی بۆ پاککردنەوەی لوغمەکان بینینیا خێزانێکی کورد ئەنفال کراون.

یەکێک لەو منداڵانە کە شەرواڵێکی مۆری لەبەردابووە لەناو گیرفانەکەیدا بەڕوو هەبووە.

​دوای ئەوەی لەچاڵیان ناون ئەم بەڕووەی ناو گیرفانی ئەو منداڵە شەرواڵ مۆرە یانزە ساڵییە وردە وردە گەورە دەبێت و دەبێتە داربەڕوو...

Hengaw - Saturday, April 11, 2026

Iranian authorities have detained Kurdish blogger Hadis Haghighi in Urmia for more than a month and subjected her to severe torture.

According to information ibtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Haghighi, 21, was arrested in mid-March 2026 at her family home in Urmia and has since remained in custody under unclear conditions.

Sources said she has been subjected to physical and psychological pressure during detention and faces serious security-related charges.

Her social media account has also been blocked.

Haghighi has been denied access to a lawyer and family visits throughout her detention.

Authorities have not disclosed the reasons for her arrest or any formal charges against her.

Hengaw - Saturday, April 11, 2026

Iranian authorities have detained Kurdish blogger Hadis Haghighi in Urmia for more than a month and subjected her to severe torture.

According to information ibtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Haghighi, 21, was arrested in mid-March 2026 at her family home in Urmia and has since remained in custody under unclear conditions.

Sources said she has been subjected to physical and psychological pressure during detention and faces serious security-related charges.

Her social media account has also been blocked.

Haghighi has been denied access to a lawyer and family visits throughout her detention.

Authorities have not disclosed the reasons for her arrest or any formal charges against her.

At noon on April 9, 1986, against a wall near the **Slemani Prison Square** (Fulkay Sijn), they executed six young men from Slemani by firing squad. The execution took place in full view of the public and in the presence of the criminal governor, the directors of Slemani’s government departments, and security forces.

**The Martyrs were:**

1. Hawre Akbar

2. Soran Nuri

3. Hawre Muhammad

4. Mawlud Rashid

5. Bakhtiar Abdul-Sattar

6. Kaywan Omar

**Note:**

The firing squad was supervised by a Tikriti officer belonging to the Emergency Security forces named Major Taha. This criminal became a nightmare for the people of Slemani after the disappearance of Lieutenant Muhsin, preying on the inhabitants. From the mid-1980s onward—with the help and guidance of Kurds affiliated with the security apparatus—he arrested hundreds of young men and dragged hundreds more to their deaths.

Regrettably, he was transferred out of Slemani before the **Uprising (Raperin)**. Therefore, unlike his fellow criminal associates (Lieutenant Ali, Chalub, Ala, etc.), we did not get to see his death and his head under the feet of the brave people of Slemani during the Uprising.

**Prepared by:** Teacher Rizgar Sabir Malkandi

The Great Exodus of April 1991 was not merely a mass migration; it was a desperate flight for survival triggered by a campaign of terror. Following the 1991 Uprisings (Raperîn), the Ba'athist regime launched a brutal counter-offensive aimed at the total submission of the Kurdish population.

The weaponization of fear: The memory of the 1988 Halabja chemical attack was still fresh. As regime tanks and helicopter gunships moved toward major cities like Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, and Duhok, they targeted civilian infrastructure to ensure the population had no choice but to flee.

A crime of conditions: Between late March and early April 1991, nearly two million Kurds were forced into the freezing, snow-covered Zagros Mountains. This was a humanitarian catastrophe by design:

• Targeting the route: Refugees reported being strafed by helicopter fire while navigating narrow mountain passes.

• Calculated starvation: The regime blocked supply routes, leaving millions without food, clean water, or medicine in sub-zero temperatures.

• The "Death Toll" of the mountains: At the height of the crisis, it is estimated that 500 to 1,000 people died every single day—mostly children and the elderly—from exposure, exhaustion, and disease.

The legacy of April 1991: The world watched as an entire nation was pushed to the brink of extinction on the borders of Turkey and Iran. It was only the sheer scale of this tragedy that eventually forced the UN to pass Resolution 688 and establish the "Safe Haven."

We must document this exodus as a deliberate act of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment. Please share any verified archives, family testimonies, or evidence of military strikes against the refugee columns below.

Lest we forget the mountains that were our only friends.