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Quite 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.
Peace and stability in Turkey, Kurdistan, the Middle East and the wider world: a personal perspective on the events of the year just gone and prospects for the future.
By David Morgan, Peace in Kurdistan Campaign, 1 January 2015 Peace and stability in Turkey, in Kurdistan, in the Middle East and in the wider world might seem extremely precarious and elusive prospects in the light of the descent into chaos in Syria and Iraq witnessed...
Iraqi Kurds, Yazidis fight Islamic State for strategic town of Sinjar
(Reuters) - Kurdish and Yazidi fighters battled to take the strategic northern Iraqi town of Sinjar back from Islamic State on Sunday after breaking a months-long siege of the mountain above it. Seizing the town would restore the majority of territory Iraq's Kurds...
Peshmerga forces heave Isis away from Mount Sinjar
Fazel Hawramy on Mount Sinjar - The Guardian, Sunday 21 December 2014 Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by US-led air strikes pushed Islamic State militants out of a large area around Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, according to Kurdish officials. “We have managed to...
Turkey’s Kurdish PKK fighting IS tells U.S: Stop calling us terrorists
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has become a de facto ally of the US in its fight against IS. Now it wants to be taken off the State Department's terror list. Ekurd.net - December 23, 2014 QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraqi Kurdistan,— When the United States joined the fight...
Iran: 30TH DAY OF HUNGER STRIKE BY KURDISH POLITICAL PRISONERS IN URMIYE’S CENTRAL PRISON
Report of the situation of the hunger strikers on 16th of December 2014 On Thursday, 20th of November 2014, 27 Kurdish political prisoners in Urmiye’s central prison started a large scale...
Also commemorated today: Prisoners burnt alive in “Operation Back to Life”
ANF - 19/12/2014 The “Back to Life” operation was carried out fourteen years ago in several prisons in order to solve the so-called “prison problem” in Turkey and end the death fast of prisoners who...
A black mark on Turkey; Maraş Massacre
ANF - MARAŞ 19.12.2014 According to official numbers, 111 people, mostly Alevis, were massacred savagely in the Maras Massacre from 19 to 25 December 1978. The witnesses of the massacre can not forget the agony of massacre despite 36 years passing over it....
Turkey remains leery about presence of Syrian Kurdish refugees from Kobani
Ekurd.net - December 19, 2014 SURUC, Turkey's Kurdish region,— From a hilltop about half a mile from the besieged Kurdish-Syrian city of Kobani, the sounds of heavy weapons can be heard echoing from inside what was once a prosperous border town of about 250,000...
First Peshmerga units reach Ezidi resistance fighters in Shingal
First units of the Peshmerga have reached Ezidi resistance fighters in Shingal as part of large-scale offensive aimed at liberating Shingal region from ISIS terrorists. On Thursday evening, first Peshmerga units met with Ezidi resistance fighters from Shingal´s...
