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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.
Field activities in Western Kurdistan
Please find the Briefing News and Activities in West Kurdistan and Syria.
Info and Relations Centre Of Democratic Union Party
The International Crisis Group, 22 Jan 2013
Syria’s Kurds: A Struggle Within a Struggle – Middle East Report N°136
Çetin shades some lights on Paris killings
Journalist Ferda Çetin wrote in Yeni Özgür Politika daily about an important document which sheds some light on the Turkish government's role in the killings of three Kurdish politicians in Paris, Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Fidan Doğan, representative of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) in Paris and Leyla Şaylemez, member of the Kurdish youth movement.
Liberté à la défense! Freedom to defence!
Touche pas à mes avocats! Liberté à la défense! Hands off my lawyer! Freedom to defence!
Dogan Özgüden Collection at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam
The ceremony marking the transfer of Dogan Özgüden's Collection to the International Institute of Social History (IISG) took place on January 24, 2013, at the headquarters of this prestigious organization in Amsterdam.
TURKEY: PEN International Protests Life Sentence Against Sociologist Pinar Selek
PEN International protests the life sentence served yesterday against writer, sociologist and feminist, Pýnar Selek, who is accused of involvement in an explosion over 14 years ago, although she had been acquitted three times previously.
A statement to the public opinion on the events in Serê Kaniyê 1/20/13
After peace was once again installed in Serê Kaniyê city by an agreement between YPG and the armed groups who had attacked the city two months earlier, a deal was struck to form a local council representing all the cites inhabitants. As a result of this agreement, many people who had fled the city came back to their homes.
We demand justice for Sakine, Fidan and Layla!
On 9 January 2013 an atrocious crime was committed in the center of Paris which has deeply shaken all Kurdish women's organizations and the Kurdish people, international women's organizations, women in many different countries as well as friends of the Kurdish people, progressive forces and the democratic public.
Info and Relations Centre of The Democratic Union Party
On the Ground Activities in West Kurdistan
