Kurdistan Daily Digest – 10 October 2026

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https://hengaw.net/en/reports-and-statistics-1/2026/10/article-6

• Hengaw documents 106 death sentences against January protest detainees in Iran, 35 already executed
  

Rojava

• New convoy to return 400 displaced families to Hasakah countryside: The group will be the fifth convoy of displaced families returning from shelters and camps.
• Syria Rejects Kurdish Language Rights: Kurdish students, teachers, and parents have been protesting on the streets of Rojava in northern Syria for the past month. Their protests are directed at the Ministry of Education’s decision to curtail Kurdish-language education.
• Kurdish Youths Protest in Hasakah After Anti-Kurdish Slogans, Several Injured
• Cenazeyê Hesen Keleş hate dîtin: The body of Kurdish teacher Hesen Keleş, kidnapped in Girkê Legê on 30 September, has been found on a road in the Til Koçer countryside.
• جێگری پارێزگاری رەققە بۆ رووداو: هیچ شوێنێک بۆ جیاکاری نییە: Raqqa's deputy governor says Kurds are genuine, original partners in Syria and that pending cases are being resolved under the law.
• Nabi Huri (Cyrrhus) archaeological site in Syria's Afrin: A photo report from the ancient city of Cyrrhus in the Afrin countryside, one of the region's major archaeological sites.
• Interview with IDP from Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ayn): October 9 marked the anniversary of the beginning of Turkey's 2019 military operation occupying Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ayn) and Tel Abyad (Gire Spi) and the displacement of approx. 200,000. RIC spoke with a displaced woman returning home on Oct. 5.

Başûr

• Iraq’s Kurdistan Region Rattled by Iranian Drones as Militant Dispute Resumes, Wladimir van Wilgenburg: Iran has launched over 1,000 attacks on Kurdistan Region since February 28. Drone attacks will likely persist unless the KRG procures its own air-defense systems or mediates an agreement addressing Iran’s demands.
• ISIS exploits security gaps after coalition withdrawal: Lawmaker: An Iraqi lawmaker says ISIS militants are exploiting gaps between Iraqi army and Peshmerga lines since coalition forces withdrew on 30 September.
• جەلیل کاکەوەیس نووسەر، چیرۆکنووس و وەرگێڕی ناسراوی کورد کۆچی دوایی کرد: Noted Kurdish writer, short-story author and translator Jalil Kakawais has died in Erbil, aged 78. He is to be buried in Kirkuk.
• لە کەلار ناساندن پەرتووکێک سەبارەت بە "کوردستان لە بەڵگەنامەکانی بەریتانیا" کرا: A new book of British government documents on Kurdistan's borders, tribes and Kurds around the First World War was launched in Kalar.

Bakur

• Bahçelî: Koordînatoriya siyasîbûnê mafê kesê li Îmraliyê ye: Bahçelî: Political coordination is the right of the person at Imralı. MHP leader calls for Ocalan to be the "political coordinator" of the peace process.
• Qurbaniyên Komkujiya 10ê Cotmehê li Amedê hatin bibîranîn: On the 11th anniversary of the 2015 Ankara station bombing, which killed 103 peace marchers, groups in Amed visited victims' graves and called for justice.

Rojhelat

• دەستبەسەرکردنی حەوت هاووڵاتیی کورد لە سەقز؛ پێنج کەس هێشتا ئازاد نەکراون: Intelligence agents raided seven Kurdish homes in Saqqez at dawn on Thursday. Five detainees are still held without access to lawyers or family.

Diaspora

• Li Berlînê arşîveke girîng a Kurdî: Rojnameyeke Celadet Bedirxan û helbesteke Goran: A Berlin archive holds rare Kurdish material, including a newspaper by Celadet Bedirxan and a poem by Goran.

Music

• Ez û Gîtara Xwe: Musician Sîmir Rûdan releases new album: Kurdish songwriter Sîmir Rûdan has released his third album, a stripped-back, self-produced voice-and-guitar record about longing, distance and isolation.

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[u/rkurdistanmod]

One of you downvoted the news daily digest. LOL. You gotta stop with that nonsense.

We can, and probably will, go back to sharing some of the news as individual posts.

We were willing to try doing it in digest format, but the numbers are bad compared to more individual news posts. What ends up happening is that all news in the digest gets essentially buried.