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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.
Zarakolu and Ersanli arrested by court
A Turkish court on Tuesday decided to put under arrest 44 people, including Publisher Ragip Zarakolu and Prof. Busra Ersanli, on charges of membership in the so-called KCK (Union of Kurdistan Communities). They were among about 50 suspects detained over the weekend in a crackdown on the same charges.
Signatures Campaign / Campagne de signatures
Ragip Zarakolu In Detention / En détention
THAT'S ENOUGH! / CA SUFFIT!
IPA: Turkish Freedom to Publish Hero Jailed
Publisher Ragip Zarakolu, recipient of the 2008 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize, was arrested on Friday, 28 October 2011 in Istanbul.
Pression sur les médias / Pressure on the Media
Zarakolu and Ersanli arrested by court
Use of chemical weapons by Turkish army a reality 31 October 2011
A IHD and BDP delegation on its way to Kazan Valley to investigate allegation of chemical weapons in military operation
Kurdish guerrillas denounced use of chemical weapons in air raids by Turkish army
HPG released names of guerrillas who lost their life in Çukurca – NEW 30 October 2011
Publisher and Human Rights Defender Ragip Zarakolu Arrested
Within the framework of the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) affair, the Turkish police detained Ragip Zarakolu, a well-known human rights activist and director of Belge Publishing House, in Turkey. Zarakolu is also the chairman of the Publishers Association Freedom to Publish Committee of Turkey.
Press conference on 1 November in Berlin
Criminal complaint in Germany against Prime Minister Erdogan and Turkey's Chiefs of Staff because of War Crimes
Ragip Zarakolu : En détention / Gözaltinda / In Detention
Campagne de signatures / Imza Kampanyasi / Signatures Campaign
CA SUFFIT! / YETTI ARTIK / THAT'S ENOUGH!
