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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.
Last Word with Bakhtiar Amin
Bakhtiar Amin is the former human rights minister of Iraq and chairman of the board of directors of the Foundation for Future, a multinational non-profit organization promoting human rights, democratic governance, and reform in the greater Middle East and North Africa region. He spoke to Turkish Review about the current rapprochement between Turkey and the KRG.
Interview with Jonathan Spyer: Kurdish issue and politics in contemporary international relations
Kurdish Issue and Politics in Contemporary International Relation:
Rojhelat.info: How do you define Kurdish issue? Is it possible to give specific or general definition?
Open the door to the Kurds (Washington Post Editorial Board)
AS BLOODSHED in Iraq and Syria has steadily escalated, the importance to the United States of one regional ally has been growing. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, which controls an autonomous enclave bordering Iran, Turkey and Syria, is democratic, secular, pro-Western and a determined enemy of the al-Qaeda forces that operate on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It wasn’t surprising that KRG President Massoud Barzani was booked for a visit to Washington and a likely meeting with President Obama last month. By the same token, his abrupt decision to postpone the trip is cause for concern.
It’s Not Just Regime vs. Al-Qaeda in Syria (opinion, Michael Rubin)
A false assumption that too often permeates Washington policy deliberation is that debate can continue endlessly without regard to the situation on the ground.
Turkey: The government that sought revenge on its people (opinion, Naila Bozo)
Imagine a government that serves its people and not itself; a government that strives to implement laws and regulations that provide grounds for the empowerment of freedom, equality and individuality. A government that is always aware that it consists of what it rules: people.
Iraq’s Nineveh Province Considers Autonomy
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq’s Sunni Nineveh province says it is considering autonomy from the Shiite-led government in Baghdad and trying to work out territorial divisions with the autonomous Kurdistan Region.
Turkey: New judicial bill marks a step towards Sultanate
A controversial law approved by Parliament over the weekend turns the justice minister into a “Chief Qadi” for the country, as the law empowers him with extraordinary authority, the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has suggested. (Hürriyet, 18/02/2014)
A group of counter guerrillas are wandering around the city of Mako, introducing themselves as the Guerrillas of PJAK. (Iran)
The Iranian regime has sent groups of counter guerrillas within the entire region of Rojhelat (East Kurdistan), their goal is to operate and introduce themselves as the Guerrillas of PJAK and blacklist the actual Guerrillas of PJAK within the people of Rojhelat.
Germany Has Evidence of Turkish Hand in PKK Killings in France, By Alexandra Di Stefano Pironti
BARCELONA, Spain – German security services have evidence that Turkish intelligence agents were behind the killing of three female activists of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Paris more than a year ago, Germany’s respected Der Spiegel weekly reported.
