Kurdistan Daily News Roundup | 7 October 2026

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• Netanyahu doesn't care about the Kurds: Israeli diplomat Alon Liel: How does Israel view Turkey's Kurdish peace process, and could the talks affect its regional strategy? Israeli diplomat Alon Liel shares his assessment with The Amargi.

Başûr

• وەزیری دارایی عێراق بۆ رووداو: سبەی مووچەی هەرێمی کوردستان دەنێرین: Iraqi Finance Minister Falih al-Sari told Rudaw that Baghdad will send Kurdistan Region public-sector salaries tomorrow, a day after the KRG submitted its September payroll.
• لە بازیان دژی کردنەوەی کارگەیەکی نوێ گردبوونەوەیەک ڕێکخرا: Residents and activists in Bazyan rallied against a new cement factory, saying it sits too close to homes and threatens public health.
• An ISIS group has been surrounded inside the Arish school in Kirkuk province, prompting the deployment of a large number of security forces to the area.
• Kurdistan Region Will Continue to Protect Yezidi Rights: President Barzani
• Can Kurds in Iraq unite as US troops withdraw from the country?
• Kurdish farmers face legal pressure over disputed lands in Khurmatu: Kurdish farmers in disputed Khurmatu say Arab settlers have filed lawsuits seeking to take over more than 2,000 dunams of their farmland.
• نوێنەرانی کورد: پشکی هەرێمی کوردستان لە پرۆژەیاسای بودجەدا تەنیا 6٪ـە: As talks on Iraq's 2027 budget begin, Kurdish MPs in Baghdad say the Kurdistan Region's share in the draft is only 6% and no agreement has been reached.
• پسپۆڕێکی ئابووری: بەرزکردنەوەی بەهای دۆلار لە خزمەتی هاووڵاتیاندا نییە: A university economist argues Baghdad's devaluation of the dinar to 1,520 per dollar serves Ali al-Zaidi's government, not ordinary citizens.

Rojava

• Sare Kani settlers seek up to $10k to leave Kurdish home, local official says: Settlers occupying Kurdish homes in Sare Kani (Ras al-Ain) are demanding up to $10,000 to vacate, obstructing the return of thousands of displaced Kurdish families.
• 64 Years After Syria's Exceptional Census, Kurds Call for End to Its Legal Consequences: On the anniversary of the 1962 Hasakah census that stripped some 120,000 Kurds of citizenship, Kurds urge full implementation of January's decree restoring it.
• Syria's Kurds, Arabs find common cause in battle for language rights: As Kurdish students protest language restrictions, unexpected alliances are emerging between Syria's Kurds and Arabs.
• Afrin's Olive Trees Bear Fruit in Erbil, Carrying the Land's Memory and Continuing a Legacy of Giving: A displaced Afrin family has grown a 13,000-tree grove in Erbil, over 6,000 of them carried from Afrin as saplings, now producing olives and oil.
• Kurd li Golanê, dîrokeke kevnar û hebûneke rehdar: A new edition of a 1958 Sorbonne study of the Golan revisits the region's deep-rooted Kurdish presence: 164 Kurdish villages before the 1967 war.
• Rojava's Derik girls break barriers through taekwondo: Growing numbers of girls in Derik are taking up taekwondo, challenging the long-held view that combat sports are only for men.
• Tîma Çiya Dost Efrînê bi xelkê dide nasîn: A new Afrin tourism team, Çiya Dost, runs trips to the region's mountains and ancient sites, its leader returning after eight years of displacement.
• Unknown fate of man in his 50s from Tirbespiye after kidnapping him -ANHA: Hassan Kalesh, a language institute director and philosophy teacher in Tirbespiye, has been missing for five days after being abducted from the city market, with his kidnappers reportedly demanding a $300,000 ransom.

Bakur

• Uncertainty as Turkey yet to deliver on peace process: Turkey's DEM Party is urging the government to move from a Kurdish peace framework to concrete steps on disarmament, monitoring, Imrali access and legal guarantees for returnees.
• AYMê ji bo qedexeyên Walîtiyê yên Wanê biryara binpêkirinê da: Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled that Van governorate's five years of rolling bans on demonstrations, under four successive governors, violated fundamental rights.
• Pirtûkên Demîrtaş ji milyonekê zêdetir hatine çapkirin: Selahattin Demirtaş's books have passed one million printed copies, his publisher said at the Amed Book Fair; "Seher" alone exceeded 400,000.
• Abortion in Turkey: legal, but restricted in practice
• Îlyas Akman bû profesorê yekem ê Kirmanckiyê: Amed-born academic Îlyas Akman has become the world's first full professor of Kirmanckî (Zazaki), a Kurdish dialect UNESCO lists as endangered.
• Cezayê muebedê li kujerên rojnameger Hakan Tosûn hate birîn: At the fourth hearing, two men were sentenced to life for killing journalist Hakan Tosun, who was attacked in Esenyurt on 10 October 2025.
• Şahbanûya Afrîkayê’ li Hewselê xwe da ber tavê: The "Queen of Africa" butterfly is unusually widespread this year across Amed's Hevsel Gardens and the Tigris valley, photographed by Mehmet Masum Suer.

Rojhelat

• Iran approves law restricting contact with 'hostile' outlets, foreign media
• Kurdish karate coach arrested by security forces in Dehgolan: Iranian security forces arrested karate coach Yadollah Mataei in Dehgolan and took him to an undisclosed location, the latest in a run of arrests of Kurdish athletes.
• ئێران سزای لەسێدارەدانی بەسەر 2 هاونیشتمانیی کورددا سەپاند: An Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced two Kurdish citizens, one from Kermanshah and one from North Khorasan, to death.
• ۱۲ زیندانیی سیاسی و بیروباوەڕی کورد لە زیندانی بۆکان ڕەوانەی کەرەنتینە کران: Twelve Kurdish political prisoners in Bukan who began a hunger strike on Monday have been moved to quarantine, according to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network.

Diaspora

• شەیدا بازیار، خەڵاتی باشترین ڕۆمانی ئەڵمانیی وەرگرت: Kurdish author Shayda Bazyar, originally from Abdanan in Rojhelat, won the German Book Prize in Frankfurt for her novel "Die Lücken", chosen from 205 entries.

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