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Iran arrests Kurdish PEJAK members,
bombers in Kurdish area
10.7.2007
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July 10, 2007
TEHRAN, -- Iran has arrested 20 Kurds for
espionage and three members of a Kurdish militant
party for a bombing last year in the western Kurdish
city of Kermanshah, a local intelligence official
said on Monday.
"We could identify five spy networks, 20-people
strong, and arrest them," ISNA news agency said,
quoting the intelligence chief of Kermanshah, which
has a substantial Kurdish minority and borders Iraqi
Kurdistan.
"The spies belonging to these gangs have internal
and foreign elements that were bribed and briefed by
the enemy's intelligence services for economic,
military, political, cultural, and social aims
inside the country," he said.
The official added that Iran had arrested three
members of PEJAK -- the Kurdish militant party
believed to be linked to Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) --
over a May 2006 bomb explosion
in government offices in Kermanshah that injured
seven.
PEJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan) , took up
arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdistan
province northwestern of Iran. Half the members of
PEJAK are Kurdish women.
The Kurdish group of Pejak was behind the bombing in
Kermanshah directed by the system's sworn enemies
and with the aim of inciting fear and disrupting
people's security. |
PEJAK Kurdish woman fighter, (PEJAK - Party for a
Free Life in Kurdistan), PEJAK fights against the
Iran regime for self-rule in the country's
mainly Kurdistan province northwestern of Iran AP |
"Three members of Pejak were arrested with more than
ten kilos of explosives," the official said,
describing the United States and Israel as the
Islamic republic's sworn enemies.
The attacks came amid tensions between Iraqi Kurds
and Iran and Turkey, both of which have Kurdish
minorities and have been battling separatist
militants from the PKK and its offshoots.
AFP
Iranian Kurdistan
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Īranź or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatź
Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name
for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has
borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes the
greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority of the population of this
region with an estimated population of 4 million.
The region is the eastern part of the greater
cultural-geographical area called Kurdistan.
More about Iranian Kurdistan
The present leader of the organisation is Haji
Ahmadi. According to the Washington Times, half the
members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in
their teens, and one of the female members of the
leadership council is Gulistan Dugan, a psychology
graduate from the University of Tehran. This is due
primarily to the fact that PJAK is strongly
supportive of women's rights. PJAK believes that
women must have a strong role in government and must
be on an equal level with men in leadership
positions.
More about PEJAK- Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan
KDPI
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Kurdish
(Hīzbī Dźmokiratī Kurdistanī Źran) is a Kurdish
opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks
the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a
democratic federal republic of Iran.
The current
General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan is Mustafa Hijri
More about KDPI- Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
** The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast
Turkey.
Others estimate over 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
Kurds are not recognized as an official minority in
Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
Turkey is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media.
The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish
alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and
2003
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan
but unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag
is banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it
is a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
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