Iran and Iraq have reached a bilateral agreement on the disarmament of Iranian Kurdish forces and also the evacuation of their military installations in the Kurdistan region. Following the announcement, the Kurdistan Regional Government told members of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan to move their fighters to designated camps and disarm.
193 intellectuals and artists have released a joint statement in which they publicly criticised Turkey’s ongoing Kobane trial, calling it “unjust.” The trial implicates many members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). The case is set to resume on 4 September at Ankara’s 22nd Heavy Penal Court.
A prominent rights watchdog in Turkey, the Human Rights Association (İHD), has called for the abolition of the country’s Administrative and Observation Boards, shown to have obstructed and delayed the release of at least 313 prisoners based on subjective evaluations of ‘good conduct’.
Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca has responded to backlash following the exclusion of Kurdish from Turkey’s multi-lingual online prescription service. Koca claimed that five foreign languages were offered on the service due to the country’s rising success in health tourism but did not comment on the exclusion of Turkey’s second most widely-spoken language, Kurdish.
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