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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’s letter to the Armenian people
Öcalan called attention to the disruption of social relations between the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the last three centuries, and remarked that these lands have turned to a cemetery of peoples and cultures because of the poison scattered by capitalist modernity and nation states and their projects to create monolithic states, preparing an ideological substructure for a disaster, destroying peoples as well as dozens of languages and cultures.
Deportation of journalist another setback for media freedom in Turkey, says OSCE representative
VIENNA, 7 February 2014 – The deportation of journalist Mahir Zeynalov for his critical writing is a further setback for the dire state of media freedom in Turkey, Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media said today.
Charter of the social contract in Rojava (Syria)
Charter on the democratic self-administration project of the peoples of the three autonomous regions in Rojava, northern Syria
Turkish MPs endorse internet control law
Despite opposition from press freedom groups, Turkey’s parliament approved a bill tightening control of Internet.
Al Jazeera – 06 Feb 2014 08:35
Turkish power struggle leaves new questions on Kurdish issue, Wladimir van Wilgenburg
The escalation of the power struggle between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Islamic movement of the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen has brought out new revelations supporting suspicions of the Kurdish movement against the government. New leaks have increased suspicions that the Turkish state was involved in the killing of three Kurdish activists in Paris on Jan. 9, 2013.
To the German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Bundeskanzleramt, Willy-Brandt-Straße 1, 11013 Berlin, via fax: +49 3018 400-2357
‘We have been here longer than a thousand years’: Kurdistan’s fight for nationhood, Richard Hall
The frontiers of Kurdistan, as they were proposed at the Paris Peace conference in 1919, "begin in the north at Ziven, on the Caucasian frontier, and continue westwards to Erzurum, Erzincan, Kemah, Arapgir, Besni and Divick.
After Cizîre, Kobanê Canton has been declared
Eight days after the declaration of a Democratic Autonomous Administration in Cizîre Canton the Kobanê (Ayn al-Arab) Canton has also declared its own autonomous administration. This canton will be administered by a legislative assembly president, two deputies and 22 ministers.
Special Report-Amid Syria’s violence, Kurds carve out autonomy, By Erika Solomon
QAMISHLI, Syria Jan 22 (Reuters) – In the northeast corner of Syria, a pocket of stability is emerging amid the country's civil war. Here the talk is of building, not bombing.
