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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.
Amnesty International Slams Turkey on Human Rights Violations
Amnesty International slammed Turkey in a new report for committing human rights violations “on a huge scale” during the Gezi Park protests and their aftermath last summer.
Kurdistan Democratic Communities’ Union (KCK) Statement
TO OUR PEOPLE AND THE PUBLIC OPINION
Conference : Syria and the Arab Spring
The struggle in Syria claims more and more victims. According to new figures from the United Nations, there are certainly cases to September 150,000 deaths.
Gorran in Government? To Be or Not To Be
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Only hours after the vote count began in Saturday’s parliamentary elections, leaders of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) convened and admitted their defeat.
From Pen to Sword: Kurdish Women Warriors in Syria
In January 2011, I got lost in Qamişlo, the unofficial capital of Rojava (West Kurdistan/northern Syria). I wandered around the streets that all looked alike: broken pavements, small houses side by side with flat roofs, bigger and three-storey high buildings with colourful tiles on the facade, young girls emptying buckets with dirty water from the balconies, old men sitting outside their shops on small chairs, women ardently pushing pink, worn out plastic strollers with their babies in and skinny, dark boys riding blue bikes with colourful ribbons on the steer and buckets of yogurt on the carrier.
The State of a Secular Rebel Fighting Force
Below is a transcript of an interview with Bassam, a rebel who serves with two secular brigades near Salamiyah. He spoke with us on Saturday via Skype.
Syria in Depth: Leading Insurgent Groups Reject Opposition Coalition
Thirteen insurgent factions — including Liwa Al Tawheed, Harakat Ahrar Ash Sham, and Jabhat Al Nusra as well as groups from the Free Syrian Army — have issued a statement rejecting the opposition Syrian National Coalition.
(Joanna Paraszczuk, EA WorldView)
Campaign Against the Promotion of a Torturer in Turkey
The European Confederation of Oppressed Immigrants (AvEG-Kon) has launched a campaign against the protection and promotion of torturers by Turkish State. A very detailed folder* on the recent appointment of a notorious torturer, Sedat Selim Ay, to a higher post in Istanbul has already been distributed to the European media and NGOs.
Conference on Democracy, Self-Determination and Liberation of Peoples
Monday, 23 September 2013, Paul-Henri Spaak, P7C050, European Parliament, Rue Wiertz/Wiertzstraat 60, B-1047 Bruxelles / Brussel –
Belgique/ België
