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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.
Öcalan talks of peaceful solution, Erdogan still hawkish against PKK
PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan told a HDP delegation that visited him on 15 August, the 30th anniversary of the PKK's launching of the armed struggle: "this 30-year war is at a stage to end through democratic negotiations". HDP Group chairs Pervin Buldan and Idris Baluken...
To Aid Kurdistan, ALIZA MARCUS and ANDREW APOSTOLOU
WASHINGTON — The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has forced America to return to the battlefield in Iraq . Earlier this month, President Barack Obama ordered airstrikes against ISIS fighters nearing Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region, while insisting...
PKK ‘terrorists’ crucial to fight against Isis, Erika Solomon in Makhmour and Daniel Dombey in Istanbul
FT 15 August 2014 To the west, they are terrorists, yet they are now fighting on the same side as their interests converge with the US in the fight to help Iraq’s Kurdish forces stave off a jihadi offensive. Battle-hardened Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) militants...
CNN reports from the Newroz refugee camp in Western Kurdistan, Syria, under control of YPG and PKK:
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Kurdistan National Congress: ISIS ATTACKS AND KURDISH RESISTANCE IN KURDISTAN
INFORMATION FILE 2014-08-11: Contents INTRODUCTION .................................................................. 3 KURDISH RESISTANCE FOR HUMANITY AND AN EQUAL LIFE ............................. 3 KURDISH DEFENCE FORCES ARE PROTECTING THE PEOPLES OF THE REGION...
KURDISH WEEKLY NEWS BRIEFING, 9 – 15 August 2014
NEWS 1. Presidential candidates in Turkey able to campaign freely, but playing field not level, say international observers 2. Kurdish self-confidence gets a boost from polls 3. Striking success of HDP in election 4. KCK: HDP faces a historic responsibility 5. Islamic...
Distress call for public opinion
On behalf of the Democratic Self-Rule Administration – al Jazeera canton We are calling for all international organizations, human rights bodies, civil society organizations, United Nations bodies, the League of the Arab States, the Organization of Islamic...
TO OUR PEOPLES AND THE PUBLIC OPINION
On the 14th of August 2007, our Yazidi people in the Shiba and Shex Khidir villages of Shingal suffered a bloodthirsty massacre in which 450 of Yazidi Kurds lost their lives. We vehemently condemn the perpetrators of this massacre and remember with respect the victims...
How Kurdish Militias Have Successfully Fought Off the Islamic State, By Mutlu Civiroglu
August 14, 2014 As the Islamic State has continued its shocking military advances throughout Syria and Iraq recently, much has been written about its seemingly unstoppable battle capabilities. But there's one force that has scored a number of successes against its...
