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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.
Interview: Noam Chomsky Discusses Turkey with David Barsamian, David Barsamian
David Barsamian, the director of Colorado-based Alternative Radio, conducted the following interview with Noam Chomsky on Jan. 20 at MIT in Cambridge, Mass.
Amnesty International: Uludere investigation ‘unreliable’
Amnesty International described the investigation on the Uludere raid that left 34 villagers dead as "unreliable," in a letter sent by the organization to Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin.
Three more skulls found in JITEM headquarters 08 February 2012
Number of skulls discovered in Diyarbakir reached 29
Kurdish Stêrk TV started broadcast 06 February 2012
The new Kurdish channel has started broadcast as of today
From the UN to the EU
The march that started in Geneva under the slogan of “Freedom for Ocalan, Political Status for Kurdish People” has reached Nyon. It is worth seeing the enthusiasm of the Kurdish people even in colds of -3 degrees.
We are on the Road for Our Existence and Freedom!
Kurdish Rights and Freedom for Ocalan.
Kurds are unable to secure their most basic rights and liberties that are attached to being a nation of 40 million.
Peace in Kurdistan campaign
BDP chair Demirtas denounces the silence of the international community in face of increasingly violent repression of Turkey’s Kurds.
Imprisoned Ragip Zarakolu nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Several Swedish MPs have applied to the Nobel Peace Committee with the proposal to give the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to famous Turkish human rights defender Ragip Zarakolu.
Turkey is turning into an open prison!
While the AKP government is jailing all opponent sectors of society and Kurds in particular, Turkey has almost been turned into an open prison within the process of the AKP government in the last ten years.
