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Stay InformedQuite some interesting information and news from the Kurdish regions – Bakur (Turkey), Başȗr (Iraq), Rojava (Syria) and Rojhilat (Iran) – is rarely, if ever, reported by the mainstream media.
The Kurdish Institute tries to fill this gap by reporting on a regular basis through its own news page recent facts and events, both from the Kurdish regions and from the rest of the world.
European Parliament : 2014 – 2019, Texts adopted – Provisional edition
P8_TA-PROV(2015)0014 Freedom of expression in Turkey: Recent arrests of journalists, media executives and systematic pressure against media European Parliament resolution of 15 January 2015 on freedom of expression in Turkey: Recent arrests of journalists, media...
Interview with Özgüden during the EP Session on the freedom of the press in Turkey
Un premier ministre obscurantiste et hypocrite à Bruxelles! Le Parlement européen condamne l'offensive du pouvoir turc contre les médias S&D Group's MEP and Interview with Dogan Özgüden during the EP Session on the freedom of the press and expression...
Fighting for Shengal (Sinjar) city continues, street by street
BBC 6/1/15: BBC reports from Shengal In northern Iraq, Kurdish forces are making progress against Islamic State (IS) in the strategically important town of Sinjar, after breaking the siege of nearby Mount Sinjar. Taking back control of Sinjar would mean restoring...
Executions of another Kurdish Political Prisoner in Iran and imminent threat of more executions in 2015
Iran executes Kurdish political prisoner Sabir Moane. Photo: Ekurd.net/sm Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group| Press Release — January 8, 2015 The Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group expresses its outrage at and condemns the brutal execution of Kurdish...
Mass graves discovered near Mosul
PNA- 7 Jan 15 - Five mass graves containing the remains of some 320 people believed to have been killed by the Islamic State militants have been found in the northern part of Iraq. Residents of areas on the southern and western edges of...
Kurds to march in Paris on 10 January
Firat News Agency, 5/1/15 - On the second anniversary of the murder in Paris of Kurdish women Sakine Cansız (Sara), Fidan Doğan (Rojbîn) and Leyla Şaylemez (Ronahî) on 9 January 2013, the Kurds are to hold a march under the slogan:...
Islamic State: Kurds ‘seize key Kobane district’
BBC, 6/1/15 - Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) in Kobane, northern Syria, have seized a key district and now control 80% of the town, activists say. Syrian Kurds backed by Iraqi Peshmerga forces captured the security district including the police HQ, the...
Turkey’s AKP pits Kurd against Kurd – Fehim Taştekin
Al Monitor, 7/1/15 - As Turkey’s Kurdish peace process seems to devolve into a “crisis process,” government quarters have begun suggesting the idea that the Kurdish Islamist Free Cause Party (Huda-Par) is the sole force capable of finishing off the Kurdistan...
The situation is surreal and intimidating, but… – Frederike Geerdink
Change the way I write and tweet because of the intimidations of an undemocratic system? Unthinkable! 8/1/2015 - A friend just called to ask me how I am doing after my detention by the anti terrorism squad (TEM) of the Diyarbakir police, earlier this week. I told him...