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kurdish
له‌ دایک بونی عیسا مه‌سیح علیه‌السلام و ساڵی نوێ زایینی له‌ هه‌مو خوشک و برایانی مه‌سیحی کورد پیرۆز بێت،به‌هیوای گه‌شتن به‌ ئاواته‌کانی گه‌لی کورد له‌ سه‌راسه‌ری کوردستاندا

persian(farsi)

تولد عیسی مسیح علیه‌ السلام و سال جدید میلادی را به‌ تمام هموطنان کوردم و ایرانیان آزاده‌ در سراسر جهان تبریک عرض کرده‌ و آرزوی سالی پر از آرامش و صلح را برای همه‌ خواستارم

امیدوارم سال جدید سالی باشد که‌ همه‌ ملتهای ستمدیده‌ بخصوص ملت رنج دیده‌ کورد به‌ حق و حقوق انسانی خود برسند

ISTANBUL, Dec 24 (KUNA) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki held talks with Turkish leaders in Ankara on Wednesday on cracking down on Kurdish rebels in Northern Iraq and activating bilateral cooperation.

Al-Maliki met with President Abdullah Gul and discussed security developments in Iraq and Turkey's campaign to crack down on the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Anadolu news agency said.

The Iraqi Prime Minister also met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and discussed Iraq-US security agreement and cooperation between Baghdad and Ankara on fighting PKK rebels.

Erdogan voiced content for the visit of Al-Maliki to Turkey, his second this year, and said it would pave way for activation of strategic dialogue between both countries.

Al-Maliki, said Anadolu, emphasized that Iraq would not allow the PKK to tarnish relations with Turkey.

Al-Maliki also met a host of senior Turkish officials and discussed means of fostering political and economic cooperation, in addition to the activation of a strategic agreement that was signed last July.

The mullahs' judiciary hanged 9 prisoners in a mass execution in Tehran's Evin prison on Tuesday, the state-run Fars news agency reported.

The report gave no further details but indicated that the executions were carried out months after the victims were sentenced to death.

On December 19, the UN General Assembly condemned widespread human rights violations in Iran.
 
It was the 55th such resolution passed by the UN bodies on human rights violations in Iran.