Araz News: 28.04.2014 Following the hunger strike action of several South Azerbaijani political prisoners in Tabriz Central Prison and Evin Prison of Tehran many South Azerbaijani rights activists in the country and abroad joined their strike starting the “Hello Hunger”...

Araz News: South Azerbaijani Society of America (SASA) and Karabakh Foundation participated in Global Languages and Cultures Network Festival representing respectively the South and North Azerbaijan. International Language Network Festival is held annually in May in Washington DC aiming to...

The Drying of Iran’s Lake Urmia and its Environmental Consequences Lake Urmia in the northwestern corner of Iran is one of the largest permanent hypersaline lakes in the world and the largest lake in the Middle East (1,2,3). It extends...

Araz News: Parliament member of Mianeh city of the East Azerbaijan province, Seyed Bahloul Hosseini said education in Turkish is a demand of people of Azerbaijan, to be implemented through 15th article of constitution. Nasr News agency reported, in a...

Araz News: Mehdi Isazadeh, Iranian parliament member of Miandoab, Tekab and Shahin Dezh regions of West Azerbaijan Province said to Tasnim News Agency that Lake Urmia is heart of people of West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Zanjan and other provinces. “When...

Araz News: Wikileaks website, which is widely known by releasing secret intelligence information of governments throughout the world, released a mail quoting ANRO First Secretary Davud Turan. The mail was written on 2011. In the mail content of an interview...

Araz News: Iran Environment and Wildlife Watch reported only 6% of Lake Urmia is left. According to NGO’s website the 100-day deadline that president Rouhani promised to take practical action to save Lake Urmia has run out months ago and...

Araz News: Kurdish nationalist parties such as Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq (KDP), Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Iranian Kurdish parties claim right on Azerbaijani Historical territory. Vast parts of Azerbaijani territory are included in the maps of Kurdistan publishing...

Araz News: First Secretary of National Resistance Organization of Azerbaijan, Davud Turan in a interweave with VOA Azerbaijani said suppression against Soth Azerbaijani right activists got worse after Ruhani came in office. Davut Turan stated that president Rouhani is focused...

Araz News: Iranian police detained about 25 supporters of Tractor-Sazi Football Club due to national demonstrations. Tebriz Sesi (Voice of Tabriz) website reports at the match between Tractor-Sazi of South Azerbaijan and Al-Ain of UAE -01.04.2014- Iranian police detained about...

Araz News: National activists in Urmia city of South Azerbaijan (Northwestern Iran) have write wall slogans to support South Azerbaijani political prisoners, demanding their freedom. Reportedly, many wall writings appeared in different neighborhoods of Urmia city at the same time while it...

Araz News:South Azerbaijani right activists of Urmia city make calls to Tractor Football Club supporters to support Lake Urmia rescue campaign. In an announcement published in South Azerbaijani web sites activists call Tractor fans to sound chants to support Lake...

Araz News: Many South Azerbaijani civil rights activists are in jail Iranian state suppresses south Azerbaijani right activists. Many South Azerbaijani civil rights activists are in jail in Iran, some sentenced to long term imprisonment, some under interrogation and some...

Araz News: City Council of Urmia, second largest city of the South Azerbaijan, decided to bring back old Turkish names of three historical monuments. “Uch Gozlu Korpu” (Three Eyes Bridge), “Doqquz Pille” (Nine Stairs) and “Qoyun Korpusu” (Sheep Bridge) are...

Araz News: Isa Kalantari, chief coordinator of the Lake Urmia Revival Work Team said “Salty winds are on way”. He added: “After waters of the Lake Urmia have dried out Azerbaijan region experienced big losses. Urgent actions have to be...