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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.
Suppressing Kurdish identity has failed. Turkey must take a new approach
Erdogan's government must engage with Kurdish political parties and the PKK if it is serious about resolving this conflict, By Fazel Hawramy, The Guardian, 6 October 2011
Violence Escalates in Turkey
Kurds Fear New Civil War May Be Brewing
By Jürgen Gottschlich, The Spiegel online
New Wikileaks cables reveal diplomatic negotiations on Kurdish activits in Belgium : ROJ TV, KNK… etc…
See the links in this regard …
KCK Operation: 137 People in Custody
An operation targeting the Union of Kurdistan Communities (KCK) was carried out in several districts of Istanbul on Tuesday (4 October). 92 people were taken into police custody on the grounds of their alleged membership in the KCK, the umbrella organization that includes the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
PEACE IN KURDISTAN CAMPAIGN
Statement, 6 October 2011,
Prisons and Bombs Cannot Eliminate the Legitimate Demands of the Kurds
BDP: we will not bend, should you arrest 10 thousands of us
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Co-Chair Gültan Kisanak remarked that Prime Minister Erdogan has a list of political execution which consists of thousands of people and said; “We will not knee before you even if you take 10 thousand people into custody”.
Kurdish conscripts have been killed while they served in the Syrian Army
Kurdish conscript, Rejeber Salah Mohammad was killed in Homs from a bullet in the back of his head.
Stop arresting democraticly elected Kurdish politicians
AKP Government and their police officers started again with detaining dozens of people. In Istanbul earlier this morning at least 83 BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) members have been taken into custody in the context of the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) operation, which is vague enough in its charges to allow the detention of virtually every single Kurdish politician and activist.
To EU Institution – To Press and Media
EUTCC statement, 20.9.2011
