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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.
Syrian Kurdish leader says ‘ready’ for fresh dialogue with Turkey
The co-leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which declared the establishment of a constituent assembly in the northern parts of Syria locally denominated as Rojava, said they have not held talks with Turkish officials in the recent period.
Syrian Kurdish leader: ‘We don’t need permission for autonomy’
Leader of the Syrian Kurdish group PYD, Salih Muslim, has responded to criticism after declaring a 'temporary autonomy'.
Kurds asks EU to support the peace process, By Roni Alasor / Lorin Sarkisian
Leader of the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, Selahattin Demirtas, asked EU to take responsibility and to play active role in the peace process between Kurds and Turks. Demirtas call also Western countries to not support the Islamic terrorist groups in Syria and respect the Kurdish provisional self autonomy.
PYD asks West support to combat extremists in Syria
The Kurdish PYD Leader Salih Muslim asks the Western countries to support Kurds in the fight against Islamic extremists linked to Al Qaida. PYD leader calls also the West to send humanitarian aid to the Kurdish region before its going to be a humanitarian crisis.
By Roni Alasor / Lorin Sarkisian
Open letter to the President, the Congress and the People of the United States of America
Why we should welcome the Kurdish Autonomous Region in Syria, Lucina Kathmann
Statement on the declaration of the interim jointadministration in Kurdish region in Syria
The Arab Spring has extended to Syria, triggering an uprising against the tyrannical regime that has perpetrated all kinds of the injustices against the Syrian people throughout last decades, obliterating security and civil peace in the country. Most of the components of Western Kurdistan actively participated and played an important part in the uprising.
The Kurds and the future of Syria
Brussels, Friday 22 November 2013 from 13:30 to 17:00.
Panel devoted to analyzing the state of affairs of the situation in Syria and the case for ethnic and religious minorities in the country, with special regard to the Kurdish situation.
Statement on the declaration of the interim jointadministration in Kurdish region in Syria
The Arab Spring has extended to Syria, triggering an uprising against the tyrannical regime that has perpetrated all kinds of the injustices against the Syrian people throughout last decades, obliterating security and civil peace in the country. Most of the components of Western Kurdistan actively participated and played an important part in the uprising. Since the withdrawal of Syrian regime forces from most of the regions of Western Kurdistan , which was due in part to the people’s great straggle to oust them, and also to the regime’s exhaustion in its war against the Free Syrian Army and extremist Islamic groups in the big cities like Homs, Aleppo and Damascus . The peoples in the region haveorganized themselves within social, cultural and politicalstructures to administrate themselves and run their affairs democratically and peacefully.
Turkey: Ongoing judicial harassment against Mr. Ramazan Demir
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Turkey.
