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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.
Warning Signs for Kurds in Post-Assad Syria – Rudaw
KUNCWarning Signs for Kurds in Post-Assad SyriaRudawSince the start of the Syrian revolution, Kurds have not hesitated to join the movements against Bashar al-Assad's regime. The Kurdish struggle against the Baath party and Assad's regime did not begin...
Thousands of officials, political militants, academics and NGO workers have been rounded up and many end up in prison
A group of Kurdish women surrounded by children jostled their way into the basement courtroom of the sixth high criminal court in Diyarbakir, "capital" of the Kurdish region of Turkey <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/turkey> . A Turkish policeman pushed them towards the benches at the back and barked at them to sit down.
Turkey: the ‘progressive’ land of repression
Turkey claims to be a successful democracy, but for thousands of political protesters, it is anything but
A committee in solidarity with Ragip Zarakolu set up in Turkey
Mrs. Sennur Baybuga, lawyer of Publisher Ragip Zarakolu under arrest, has sent the following communiqué:
Police’s Ridiculous Visit to Zarakolu’s Publishing House
The Committee in Solidarity With Ragip Zarakolu <http://www.info-turk.be/400.htm#committee> * informed the media that plain-cloth policemen came to Belge Publishing House at 1.30 pm on December 9, 2011, with a ridiculous pretext.
Vote NO on Erdogan as Time magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’!
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International Media Organisations Renew Demand to Release Imprisoned Journalists
A mission of international journalists and media organisations – including the European Federation of Journalists and its affiliate, the Türkiye Gazeteciler Sendikasi (TGS – Journalists' Union of Turkey),
Arrested publisher Zarakolu says he is in Kafkaesque novel
Prominent publisher, writer and activist Ragip Zarakolu, who was arrested last month within the scope of the ongoing Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trials, wrote a letter to the Hürriyet Daily News from prison, casting light on his present condition.
Iraq Kurds Draft Law for Fund to Invest Region’s Oil, Gas Income – BusinessWeek
Al-ArabiyaIraq Kurds Draft Law for Fund to Invest Region's Oil, Gas IncomeBusinessWeek11 (Bloomberg) -- Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government proposed a draft law to set up a fund to manage revenue from the sale of oil and natural gas produced...
