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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.
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.
Kurdish National Congress postponed to November
The Drafting Committee of the Kurdish National Congress has announced in a written statement that the congress which had been set to take place in Hewler/Erbil on 15-16-17 September has been postponed for a second time to 25-26-27 November. (ANF- Hewler/Erbil, 4/9/2013)
Understanding the Syrian Civil War
With President Obama asking Congress to back a military strike to punish Syria for alleged chemical weapons use, the US is lurching toward a new war. Beyond doubts about what happened and whether a US missile attack will help, there is scant public understanding of the Syrian conflict, notes Mideast expert William R. Polk.
Statement by the General Command of the People’s Protection Units YPG (The People’s Protection Units)
The 19th July revolution, marked the beginning of the construction of a new Kurdish determination in West Kurdistan towards the building of a free society by the people’s own free will, by means of operations of liberation which have spread throughout revolutionary West Kurdistan.
To Bomb Or Not To Bomb? Professor Michael M. Gunter
On August 21, the Syrian regime apparently used chemical weapons against the opposition in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, killing anywhere from 500-1,300 people, the numbers vary according to U.S. intelligence reports made public.
PYD briefing
Update on recent events in Syria and Rojava. Click HERE.
‘Attacks on independence of lawyers’ must end in Turkey: International body
International Association of Lawyers head calls on Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan urgently to stop ‘the oppression on Turkish Bars and lawyers’
Urgent Plea to President Barack Obama, by Margaret Owen
Dear President Obama,
Thousands of Syrian Kurds pour into Iraqi Kurdistan
Some 10,000 Syrian refugees crossed the border into Iraq in the last 24 hours, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported, as clashes between the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front and the Democratic Union Party’s (PYD) military wing intensified.
