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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.
02/03/2012, Flemish support for Kurdish-Turkish reconciliation
BRUSSELS, March 4 (AKnews) – Autonomy, democratic self-governance and federalism were discussed as possible solutions to the Kurdish question in Turkey at a meeting organized in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.
Kurdistan National Congress
Imprisonments and Sexual Abuse of Kurdish Children in Turkish Prisons
Open Letter to the President of UNICEF: Stop sexual abuse of Kurdish Children in Turkey
Your Excellency,
The reports in the press on 29th February about the systematic sexual abuse and rape of Kurdish children in the Children’s Prison of Pozanti near the city of Adana has alarmed and shocked us.
Kurds on indefinite hunger strike in Europe
BRUSSELS, March. 3 (AKnews) – More than 100 Kurds across Europe have joined 15 protestors on an indefinite hunger strike – and thousands more are expected to join them in solidarity.
08/03/2012, Conference : The Halabja Genocide and the Anfal campaigns
REMEMBERING THE HALABJA GENOCIDE AND THE USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST KURDS,
Thursday 8th of March, 2012 – Room ASP 1E2, 09h30-13h00 – Room ASP 5G2, 15h00 – 18h30,
European Parliament – Rue Wiertz 60 – 1047 Brussels (B)
02/02/2012, Invitation: Join the Newroz delegations to Kurdistan
Solidarity with the opposition in Turkey, that is the real strength of democracy!
“EZ JÎ LI VIRIM!” (I AM HERE TOO!)
Administration of justice and protection of human rights in Turkey
REPORT, by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe,
Following his visit to Turkey
French senator: EU should intervene in the Kurdish problem
Intervention by the French state and the European Union is an urgent need, said Senator Cohen-Seat
Peace and democracy party headquarters : To the press and the public
We are face to face with an oppressive authoritarian period that, with each passing day, pushes Turkey further away from a democratic future, an environment which is both free and equal and a long lasting peace.
