21/03/2024 – #DailyNews – #MedyaNews
📍 Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s town of Akre has been dubbed the ‘Capital of Newroz’ for Kurdish New Year celebrations. With an impressive display of thousands of torches, the event was steeped in tradition and political significance for the community.
📍 Thousands attended Newroz events in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır marking a relentless determination to establish Kurdish rights in the country.
📍 Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the PKK Kurdish freedom movement, shared a message of disarmament in 2013, hoping for lasting peace with Turkey. Pro-Kurdish DEM Party reaffirmed this message during their Newroz celebrations.
📍 Syrian-Kurds in North and East Syria celebrate Kurdish New Year with a torch-lighting ceremony led by SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi, from the US-allied local administration’s military wing.
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