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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.
France: No stone unturned in investigation into slaying of Kurdish women activists
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – PRESS RELEASE,
10 January 2013 – AI Index: PRE01/011/2013
International Peace Initiative Welcomes News of Negotiations between the Turkish State and Abdullah Öcalan
The International Peace Initiative welcomes the positives steps that have been recently taken by the Turkish State to resume talks with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, in the wake of a joint call in December, led by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and supported by other leading international figures, for a Resumption of Dialogue between Turkey and Öcalan, for a lasting and peaceful settlement of the Kurdish issue in Turkey.
The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu, O.M.S.G. D.D. FKC – Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town
JOINT CALL: THE KURDISH QUESTION IN TURKEY – NOW IS THE TIME FOR DIALOGUE
This could be the birth of an independent Kurdish state
The great losers in the breakup of the Ottoman empire could be winners in the wake of Syria's civil war and the Arab spring
Kurds are united for peace negotiations with Turkey
Last Thursday, Ahmet Turk, Co-Chair of the Kurdish Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and Ayla Akat Ata, both parliamentarians from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) visited the Kurdish PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan on İmralı Island, where he has been held since 1999.
EUTCC ACKNOWLEDGE TURKEY FOR RESUMING TALKS WITH PKK
The EUTCC positively notes the encouraging developments between the Turkish state and the PKK leader Mr. Abdullah Öcalan.
Turkish Kurd deputies meet jailed militant leader Ocalan: lawmaker
DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – Two Kurdish lawmakers made a rare visit to Abdullah Ocalan at his island prison on Thursday, signaling that Turkey is negotiating with the influential militant leader over ending a conflict that has killed tens of thousands over three decades.
Information Dossier on the Kurdish Politician Adem Uzun
Index:
– Letter by the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), – Statement by the Belgian lawyer (French and English), ?EUTCC Press Release: EUTCC CALLS FOR THE RELEASE OF ADEM UZUN TO FURTHER PEACE, – Press Release from Kurdish Human Rights Action Group
(KHRAG), South Africa, – Press Release from Peace in Kurdistan Campaign & Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC)
– Press Release from Kurdistan National Congress, – French prosecutor: Tayyip Erdogan talking nonsense –
Radikal, – What you can do?
Government never sought talks with our party on how to solve Kurdish issue, says BDP co-chair
Speaking to DIHA News Agency about the Roboski massacre, the Kurdish issue and the call for PKK's (Kurdistan Workers Party) disarmament, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chair Gültan Kisanak said that she believed the government would contribute to a solution to the Kurdish issue if it emphatized with Kurds as a whole.
