Kurdistan cuts off electricity to ISIS 2014-09-16 11:57:03 HEWLER (DİHA) - The Federal Kurdistan Regional government has cut off electricity to Mosul and the surrounding areas currently controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) gangs. “Now that we have cut off electricity to ISIS, we can send the extra capacity to Kirkuk,” said the General Director of Electricity in the Kurdistan Region, Dana Baban. He said that they have cut off electricity to areas controlled by ISIS including Mosul and its surrounding villages. Mosul province in Iraq was captured by ISIS gangs at the beginning of June this year and they have made it a centre for their terrorist operations. The electricity sector has been affected by the political and economic situation in Iraq, especially in Federal Kurdistan Region, where many areas have been bought under the control of ISIS gang groups throughout this year. (nt) New 0 0 0 0 Google +0 FriendFeed0 Messenger0 ECHR calls on Turkey to amend mandatory religious courses NEWS CENTER (DİHA) - The Turkish education system is “still inadequately equipped to ensure respect for parents’ convictions” and violates the “right to education,” the European Court of Human Rights Chamber decision has concluded in a case stemming from Alevi complaints about mandatory religious classes. In 2011, applicants Mansur Yalçın, Yüksel Polat and Hasan Kılıç, who are adherents of the Alevi faith and whose children were at secondary school at the relevant time, complained that the content of the compulsory classes in religion and ethics in schools was based on the Sunni understanding of Islam and said Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (right to education) had been violated. [...] Sealing Kurdish schools protested in Istanbul ISTANBUL (DİHA) - Istanbul branches of Peoples Democratic Congress (HDK), Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) and Party of Democratic Regions (DBP) and Istanbul Kurdish Institute have protested the sealing of the doors of the Dibistana Seretayî a Ferzad Kemangar-Ferzad Kemanger primary school opened in the Baglar district of Amed (Diyarbakır) to give education in Kurdish yesterday, the first day of the 2014-2015 school term. [...] NYT: ISIS drawing a steady stream of recruits from Turkey NEWS CENTER (DİHA) - Turkey is one of the biggest sources of recruits for Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) gangs, the New York Times reported. Having spent most of his youth as a drug addict in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Turkey’s capital, Ankara, Can did not think he had much to lose when he was smuggled into Syria with 10 of his childhood friends to join the world’s most extreme jihadist group. After 15 days at a training camp in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto headquarters of ISIS, 27-year-old Can was assigned to a fighting unit. He said he shot two men and participated in a public execution. It was only after he buried a man alive that he was told he had become a full ISIS fighter. [...] ISIS using Ezidis as human shields against US airstrikes! DUHOK (DİHA) - Reports from eyewitnesses here in Federal Kurdistan spoke to Breitbart News about how the terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) is using Ezidi (Yazidi) hostages as human shields to protect themselves against U.S. airstrikes. “ISIS sells the women as slave girls, the way they are doing it, they are using the women as human shields to protect them from U.S. airstrikes,” said Hameed, a Yazidi refugee who is seeking safe haven in Federal Kurdistan. [...] Mother Uveys Primary School also sealed HAKKARİ (DİHA) - The Dibistana Seretayî a Dayika Uveyş (Mother Uveys Primary School) was occupied by dozens of police officers and then sealed by police in accordance with the verdict of prosecutory. The Mother Uveys Primary School was opened by KURDÎ-DER (Kurdish Language Development and Research Union) in Esenyurt neighbourhood of Yüksekova (Gever) district of Hakkari on Monday to provide Kurdish education. The Kurdish school was sealed by police in accordance with the verdict of the Public Prosecution Office. [...] Students rip off seal in door of Mother Uveys Primary School HAKKARİ (DİHA) - The students of Mother Uveys Primary School (Dibistana Seretayî a Dayika Uveyş), which was opened in Yüksekova to provide education in Kurdish, removed the seal in the door of Kurdish school and entered it together with their families. The Mother Uveys Primary School, being opened in Esenyurt neighbourhood of Yüksekova (Gever) district of Hakkari on Monday to give Kurdish education, was sealed by police in accordance with the verdict of the governorate at the morning hours of the day. [...] - See more at: bestanuce1/haber/130690/kurdistan-cuts-off-electricity-to-isis
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