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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 state being built in Mideast, says BDP’s Demirtas
A Kurdish state is being constructed in the Middle East, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtas has said in the southeastern province of Batman during a rally to support Kurdish inmates conducting a hunger strike on Oct 27.
Syrian rebels and Kurdish militiamen clash in Aleppo
Saturday 27 October 2012 – GUARDIAN UK – Eid truce broken again with at least 22 thought dead after alleged incursion by Syrian rebels into neutral Kurdish districts
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Video of the Free Syrian Army firing on a Kurdish rally in the Ashrafieh section of Aleppo
PEACE AND DEMOCRACY PARTY
Dear Sir/Madam
Today, it has been 43 days since Kurdish political prisoners in the Turkish prisons began an indefinite hunger strikes on September 12, 2012. At this moment, health status of prisoners on hunger strike are severely impaired and came to a very critical stage.
KNK PRESS RELEASE
As it is known on 12th September 2012, led by nine Kurdish women prisoners in Diyarbakir E type prison an indefinite and non-alternate hunger strike started. This strike has increased to almost all prisons in Turkey.
Release Kurdish political campaigner Adem Uzun!
PRESS RELEASE, — We unreservedly support members of the Kurdish community who are protesting outside the French parliament today.
Another kolber wounded
NEWSDESK, — Unrelenting killing of Kurdish kolbers on the borders divided Kurdistan is reaching a tragic stage. This time it was the Turkish soldiers who fired on the kolbers and wounded one, report said.
Hadi Emini’s experiences in Iranian prisons
NEWSDESK, — Eyes have once again been turned to Iranian prisons where human rights violations and death sentences have recently recorded a remarkable increase as more and more Kurdish prisoners are being subjected to torture, ill-treatment and punishments every passing day.
Info and Relations Center Of Democratic Union Party
On The Ground Activities in Westren Kurdistan: Self-governance in the Kurdish neighborhood
