Report says men with knives attack police station in western region, leading to civilian casualties and deadly response. Dozens of people have been killed and injured in an attack in China’s far western Xinjiang region, home to the mainly Muslim...
South Azerbaijani jurnalist Said Matinpur is released from prison for 3 days furlough after 5 years imprisonment. Said Matinpur is released on 500,000,000 Iranian Toman bail. Matinpure was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment on charges of spying and another 1 year...
Araz News: Gorbanali Saadat, governor of West Azerbaijan province expressed about 6 million people are living around Lake Urmia and unless something done for it these people will be forced to displace. South Azerbaijani website, Oyrenci Sesi (Voice of Student)...
Araz News: A committee of representatives of non-Persian nations and religious minorities in Iran met US secretary of state human rights officials in Washington DC on 24 July. Araz News correspondent from Washington DC reports that there were representatives of...
“Times of differences between world powers come and go”. Oxu.Az interviews Adil Baguirov, doctor of political science, co-founder and member of the directors’ board of the US Azeris Network and Karabakh Foundation (the United States). The US congressmen have recently...
Araz News: Azerbaijani right activists have visited Eastern Turkistan’s leader Mrs. Rebiya Kadeer in US capital, Washington DC. Azerbaijani activists shared current problems of South Azerbaijan with Mrs. Kadeer. Activists Mr. Zaur Bayramli, Babek Chalabiyanli, Babek Chalabiyanli, Taymaz Urmulu and...
Araz News: Three South Azerbaijani activists named Rasoul Razavi, Hossein Ali Mohammadi and Taha Kermani sentenced to a total 7 years in prison by Revolutionary Court Tabriz branch. South Azerbaijani sources report the judge Bagher Pour has sentenced Mr. Rasoul...
Araz News: Prominent South Azerbaijani researcher, writer, turcologist and surgeon, Prof. Dr. Javad Heyat is in critical health condition. Reportedly, 89-year-old well-known figure is hospitalized in a hospital in Baku, capital of Republic of Azerbaijan. South Azerbaijani public follows his...
As threats mount to the security of both sides, the leaders of Turkey and Iraq’s Kurdistan region gathered in Ankara on July 14, with the agenda dominated by the search for a solution to the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) financial crisis...
Araz News: NROA’s First Secretary Davud Turan wrote an open letter to Mohsen Rezai, Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. In response to an address made by Mr. Rezai to people of Azerbaijan, Mr. Turan, in an open...
The United States came out on Thursday against a call by Iraq’s Kurdish leader for an independence referendum, saying the country could only repel Islamic State radicals by staying united.Massud Barzani, leader of the autonomous region, earlier told parliament to...
Araz News: Nader Gazipour, parliamentarian of Urmia in Iranian parliament, in a press interview said: “The only investment by the government in our province was the sugar factory of Miandoab which was made by Defense Minister. Except that the government...
The president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region has told the BBC he intends to hold a referendum on independence within months. Massoud Barzani said that Iraq was already “effectively partitioned”. While the Kurds would play a part in a political...
Araz News: Iranian president Hasan Rouhani issued an order to start Lake Urmia rescue operation. Oyrenci Sesi web site of South Azerbaijan reports, in a press conference on June 29, Mr. Rouhani, as head of the High Council of Environmental...
IN IRAN THE STATE-SPONSORED PROPAGANDA PORTRAYED TURKS AS BARBARIANS. In Southern Azerbaijan (Iranian Azerbaijan), the Turkish language (Azerbaijani language) was banned from schools and government offices. Since the Turkish language press shared the same fate, there were no Turkish newspaper...
