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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 Daily: Islamic State of Iraq Seizes Headlines — Can They Take Deir Ez Zor?
Syria Daily - Scott Lucas - June 13, 2014 With its sudden advance in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham has taken headlines from the Assad regime and Syria’s opposition. Since January — just as it was claiming cities in Anbar Province in western Iraq — ISIS...
Amnesty calls on Iran to halt execution of 33 Kurds
Accounts of Cases Raise Fair Trial Concerns June 13, 2014 LONDON,— The Iranian authorities should quash the death sentences of 33 Sunni Muslim men, including possibly a juvenile offender, convicted of “enmity against God” (moharebeh), and impose an immediate...
Islamists shelling Kurdish Peshmerga-controlled areas south of Kirkuk
June 13, 2014, KIRKUK, Iraq's border with Kurdistan region,— Kurdish Peshmerga leaders say that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has began shelling areas south of Kirkuk, where Peshmerga forces stepped in to fill in deserted Iraqi Army positions. In response...
Iraq disintegrating as insurgents advance toward capital; Kurds seize Kirkuk
Loveday Morris & Liz Sly, The Washington Post, 13/06/214 IRBIL, Iraq — Iraq was on the brink of falling apart Thursday as al-Qaeda renegades asserted their authority over Sunni areas in the north, Kurds seized control of the city of Kirkuk and the Shiite-led...
BDP press release on Lice
PEACE AND DEMOCRACY PARTY REPRESENTATION IN EUROPE [divide] We condemn the murder of two Kurdish protesters, killed by the Turkish state forces during a demonstration against the construction of new military posts and dams for security reasons in Kurdistan...
Amnesty International: Children among 15 civilians summarily killed in northern Syria
Amnesty International has obtained details of a horrific raid in which 15 civilians, including seven children, were summarily killed on 29 May in a village in northern Syria raising fears of further attacks against residents in the area. The killings in the village of...
Stand up for Dunya
Lawen Azad - 28 May 2014 The events in Syria, the abhorrent actions of Boko Haram, the increasing violence in Ukraine are just a few headlines that have summoned our attention of late. But now, Kurds in Southern Kurdistan under the protection of the Kurdistan...
Turkey’s Kurdish oil gamble
Rather than assume regional leadership and help resolve the oil dispute between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has done just the opposite. Ankara’s sale of Kurdish crude without Baghdad’s authorization...
ISIS Massacres In Serêkaniyê
(ANF) Forces attached to the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham have assaulted a number of villages near Serêkaniyê today, where they carried out a series of massacres early this morning. According to preliminary information at least 15 people were killed, including women...
