Araz News: Iranian Ministry of Intelligence (Ettelaat) has not allowed South Azerbaijani minors group to participate in festival in Istanbul. Tabriz based minors group “Lachin” performs traditional Azerbaijani dance and music. Lachin is an NGO. The group was planning to...
Turkic Council Junior Diplomats 1st Joint Training Program Turkic Council Junior Diplomats 1st Joint Training Program was held in Turkey on 13-25 April 2014. The decision about organizing this Program was taken at the Council of Foreign Ministers on 15...
A court hearing to hear the charges against seven Sunni prisoners of conscience was cancelled after the court-appointed lawyers and representatives from the Ministry of Intelligence failed to turn up. “This delay in processing the charges against these seven prisoners...
China’s northwestern Xinjiang region was rocked by its worst violence in years on Thursday when explosions struck a morning market in the regional capital Urumqi, killing 31 and injuring 90. Authorities have ramped up security measures in Xinjiang in the...
Araz News: In May 2006 the state run newspaper “Iran” printed a caricature and article which humiliated Azerbaijani Turks heavily. For this reason a general uprising erupted in South Azerbaijan which lasted more than two weeks. Iranian government could stop...
Araz News: Neda-ye Urmiye, a local website of South Azerbaijan repots millions of ladybugs are committing suicide because salts of dried Lake Urmia have disappeared their life condition. The website reports every hour number of died insects is increasing. Also...
China has launched a terrorism crackdown one day after a series of explosions in an open-air market killed dozens in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, the country’s state news agency, Xinhua said Friday. Without any details, the report said...
At least 31 people have been killed and more than 90 injured after two vehicles ploughed into a market and explosives were thrown in China’s restive Xinjiang region ( East Turkistan ), the official Xinhua news agency reported. Two off-road...
Akbar Azad, the Azerbaijani activist who was arrested on International Mother Tongue’s Day, has been released on bail. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Akbar Azad, the Azerbaijani political activist, who was arrested on charge...
Araz News: 21 May South Azerbaijani political prisoner Ayat Mehralibeiglou ended hunger strike after 37 days. He has informed his family that regarding requests of many of south Azerbaijani activists he had ended hunger strike despite most of his...
The Iraqi Independent Election High Commissariat announced the results of the General Elections of the 30th of April. Two persons from the Iraqi Turkmen Front participating in the elections from Kirkuk under the name 280 Kirkuk Turkmen Front List were...
rudaw: At Erbil Meeting Kurds Set Preconditions for Dealing with Baghdad Leaders of political parties in Kurdistan concluded a meeting with President Massoud Barzani on Saturday in which they seem to have drawn a plan for how to...
US Department of state’s Statement on 70th Anniversary of Crimean Tatar Deportation 70th Anniversary of Crimiean Tatar Deportation Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC May 16, 2014 The 70th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s forcible deportation of more...
Araz News: State News Agency ISNA reports “HONOUR OF PERSIA” is determined as Iran’s slogan in World Cup 2014. The slogan HONOUR OF PERSIA directly refers to ethnic Persians of Iran. This slogan has disappointed non-Persian communities of Iran because...
Map shows world’s ‘most racist’ countries (and the answers may surprise you) Jordan and India named the world’s least tolerant countries U.S., Britain, Canada and South America are among the least racist Survey asks people if they would want neighbours...
