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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.
Conservative Democrats, Conservative Autocrats or Islamists? Nuray Mert
SharePM Erdogan’s recent remarks on university students’ co-accommodation in dormitories and students’ flats is no joke.
Iranian Kurd leader says West shouldn’t be fooled by Rouhani, Alexandra Hudson
BERLIN (Reuters) – The leader of an armed Iranian Kurdish group says new President Hassan Rouhani is taking advantage of the West's wary optimism towards him to step up pressure on citizens at home, particularly Kurds, and has markedly increased executions.
YPG: 19 villages rescued in “Serêkaniyê Martyrs” operation
People's Defense Units (YPG) Press Office has released a statement about the "Serêkaniyê Martyrs” operation which was launched on 1 November against the al-Qaeda linked ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and the armed groups supporting them.
KCK: Three conditions to move process forward
Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council co-president Cemil Bayik has put forward three conditions in order for the continuation of the democratic resolution process in search of a peaceful question to the Kurdish question; improvement of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan's situation, a change in legal arrangements and the participation of a third party in the negotiations.
ONE WOMAN’S REVOLT AGAINST THE WALL OF SHAME
The female mayor of Nusaybin, Ayse Gokkan, has started a death fast among the mines between the border of Turkey and Syria.
YPG takes control of Til Koçer
People's Defense Units (YPG) figters have taken the control of the Til Koçer city in west Kurdistan following severe clashes with al-Qaeda linked armed groups.
Another Kurdish political prisoner hanged in Iran
Kurdish political prisoner Shirko Moarefi jailed in the Seqiz prison in East Kurdistan has been hanged early Monday morning.
Sabri OK: The AKP will be the loser
Speaking to ANF about the democratic resolution process Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan initiated on 21 March 2013, KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council member Sabri Ok said that this process has been led by significant unilateral steps by the Kurdish side, such as the ceasefire and the guerrillas displacement into South Kurdistan, but no single step from the Turkish state and government's side.
GUE/NGL welcomes new round of EU-Turkey accession talks
Local self-government and decentralisation on the agenda
