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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.
Kurdish politicians in Europe on indefinite-irreversible hunger strike
NEWS CENTER (DIHA) – Kurdish politicians and intellectuals are going in an indefinite and irreversible hunger strike in Brussels city of Belgium. KONGRA GEL (Kurdish People Congress) Head Remzi Kartal, KCK (Union of Communities in Kurdistan) Executive Council Member Zubeyir Aydar and PJAK (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan) Head Haci Ehmedî are among those, who began on the hunger strike.
Kurdish mayor in Turkey confronts PM Erdogan, Ayla Jean Yackley
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – When Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged the existence of a "Kurdish problem" to a rally in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Mayor Osman Baydemir was among thousands who stood to applaud a momentous declaration. For decades, Turkey had refused even to recognize Kurds as a separate ethnic group.
Schulz on the situation of hunger strikers in Turkey
The President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz has written a letter to Turkey Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin expressing his concern for the critical conditions of hunger strikers in Turkish prisons.
Behind the Kurdish Hunger Strike in Turkey, by Jake Hess
For background on the BDP, see Jake Hess’ interview with Selahattin Demirtas, “The AKP’s ‘New Kurdish Strategy’ Is Nothing of the Sort <http://www.merip.org/mero/mero050212> ,” Middle East Report Online, May 2, 2012.
TURKEY: HUNGER STRIKERS DENIED MEDICAL CARE
URGENT ACTION : HUNGER STRIKERS DENIED MEDICAL CARE
Hundreds are on hunger strike (some of them since 12 September) in prisons across Turkey. Lawyers told Amnesty International that prison authorities have denied many hunger strikers access to medical care, further threatening their health.
Call from the Peace and Democracy Party’s elected mayors
to the public in relation the non-alternate and indefinite hunger strike, which is in its 60th day (11/10/2012)
Emergency call for medical supplies for Kurdish regions in Syria!
Today we received an urgent call for help from the Kurdish regions of Syria. Hospitals, health centers, nurses and doctors are faced with an acute shortage of all kinds of drugs, medical and hygienic material.
Prisoners: we want concrete answers
"We won't end our action without concrete and straight answer to our demands and this answer is put into practice”, prisoners say.
BDP plans new actions to support hunger strike
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) released new plan of action to deal with the ongoing hunger strike in prisons. “We can't lose a single minute” is the slogan defining the new action plan.
