Firatnews Agency

The Firatnews Agency ( Kurd. Ajansa Nûçeyan a Firatê , abbreviation ANF) is a Kurdish news agency. It offers news in eight languages (Kurdish, Turkish, Spanish, German, English, Arabic, Russian and Persian) and reports mainly on Kurds and the Forbidden Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK).

In the media and by the German security authorities, the agency is considered to be PKK-affiliated. The PKK publishes organization-related news on the agency's website and uses Firatnews to announce its demands, for example "its political conditions for an end to the hostage-taking" of German mountaineers in 2008.

In 2013 Firatnews journalist Zeynep Kuray received the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award from the National Press Club in Washington, DC . Kuray was arrested several times as part of the "KCK trial" and was unable to personally accept the award due to ongoing legal proceedings.

The Firatnews agency is based in the Netherlands; it is registered in Amsterdam under the name “Stichting Persbureau Eufraat”. The news chief is Celil Demiralp.

Web links

German language website of the ANF

Individual evidence

↑ Ulrich Pick: Controversial Kurdish party DTP offers mediation. In: Tagesschau.de . July 11, 2008, accessed December 4, 2018 .
^ Philipp Wittrock : PKK in Germany: Propaganda and patriot duty. In: Spiegel Online . July 10, 2008, accessed February 29, 2020 .
^ Ayla Albayrak: Turkish Journalist Awarded US Press Freedom Award. In: wsj.com . August 7, 2013, accessed February 29, 2020 .
↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2007. (pdf, 2.7 MB) Federal Ministry of the Interior , pp. 252-254 , accessed on February 29, 2020 (reproduced on Verassungsschutzberichte.de).

[1] Ulrich Pick: Controversial Kurdish party DTP offers mediation. In: Tagesschau.de . July 11, 2008, accessed December 4, 2018 .

[2] Philipp Wittrock : PKK in Germany: Propaganda and patriot duty. In: Spiegel Online . July 10, 2008, accessed February 29, 2020 .

[3] Ayla Albayrak: Turkish Journalist Awarded US Press Freedom Award. In: wsj.com . August 7, 2013, accessed February 29, 2020 .

[4] Constitutional Protection Report 2007. (pdf, 2.7 MB) Federal Ministry of the Interior , pp. 252-254 , accessed on February 29, 2020 (reproduced on Verassungsschutzberichte.de).