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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.
Kurds in Turkey: arrests and violence threaten to radicalise a generation
Constanze Letsch reports on the Turkish crackdown on the country's Kurds and the cultural oppression that goes with it, Constanze Letsch in Diyarbakir, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 December 2011
Info-Türk Foundation’s 2012 Freedom Award Granted to Ragip Zarakolu
As a non-government organization contributing for over 38 years to the struggle for human rights and freedoms in Turkey, Info-Türk Foundation has decided to grant its 2012 Freedom Award to author, journalist, publisher and human rights activist Ragip Zarakolu* who is currently under arrest at the high security prison type-F in Kocaeli.
EUTCC Press release on the arrest of BDP European representantive Eyyup Doru
Turkey’s persecution of legally elected Kurdish representatives, media members, lawyers, trade unionists and Kurdish spokespersons in and outside Turkey, seems to have no end. More than 5000 people have so far been arrested accused of having links to PKK – the so called KCK operations.
Position paper of the Greens / EFA group on EU/Turkey relations (28/09/11)
Questioning the EU project through Turkey's accession process
ON TURKISH OPERATIONS AGAINST KURDISH MEDIA
EUTCC expresses deep concern over the recent KCK operations targeting Kurdish media and members of the press.
Turkish Crackdown on Kurdish Journalists, By Kaya Genç
As over 40 people, many of them journalists, are detained on terrorism charges across Turkey, Kaya Genç examines the latest attempt to silence the Kurdish press
US vows to support Turkey in fight against Kurdish rebels
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta speaks with US Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone (L) (AFP/POOL/File, Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Turkey Arrests 40 Over Alleged Kurdish Rebel Ties
Huffington Post, 20 December 2011
Turkish Police Arrest Journalists
By AYLA ALBAYRAK, The Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2011
