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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.
Syria IS: Iraqi Peshmerga fighters ‘enter Kobane’
BBC News - 30 October 2014 Ten Iraqi Kurd Peshmerga fighters have entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish border, Syrian opposition activists say. Dozens more are expected to join them in helping Syrian Kurds defend the strategic town against...
Urgent Call to Prevent a Human Tragedy in Sinjar Region
Ezidi Kurds are once again under renewed and persistent genocidal attack. ISIS terrorists have intensified attacks, which started a week ago to complete the ethnic cleansing of the Shengal Mountains in Iraqi-Kurdistan. The new attack aims to displace the Ezidi-Kurds...
URGENT CALL FOR ACTION
Global Rally against ISIS – for Kobanê - for Humanity! Date for the Global Rally: 1 November 2014, 2pm ISIS launched a major multi-front military campaign against the Kurdish region of Kobanê in northern Syria. This is the third ISIS onslaught on Kobanê since March...
ISIS fighter in Kobanê: “Erdoğan has helped us a lot”, by Iskender Doğu
Iskender Doğu is an Istanbul-based freelance writer, activist and an editor for ROAR Magazine <http://roarmag.org> . You can follow him on Twitter via @Le_Frique <https://twitter.com/@Le_Frique> . ISIS defiant as Syria’s civil war threatens to spill over...
Fighting power in Kobanî, by Carl Drott
Exclusive, 26 September, On Tuesday 23 September, the United States expanded its campaign of air strikes into Syrian territory, but there are widespread concerns about who can provide “boots on the ground” in the war against IS (the so-called Islamic State). In Syria,...
YPJ on ’60 minutes’ (9 Network, Australia)
New reports on Syria and Rojava
Syria Needs Analysis Quarterly Report October Rapora Doktoren Kurd-Kurdish KNK Dossier - ISIS attacks and Kurdish Resistance in Kurdistan1 To international public opinion Report on humanitarian crisis in Middle East
An Urgent Appeal to the International Community
Protecting the Kurdish people and preventing the forced displacement of our nation in our land can only be achieved through a mutual stance on this matter. Following a series of brutal ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) attacks on Kurdistan, on 10/08/2014 the...
UNHCR Report on Kobanê
Among Kobane's displaced, growing numbers seeking safety in northern Iraq, eastern Syria This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 10 October 2014, at the Palais des...
