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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.
Mr. President BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, The President of United States of Amerîca
Whit Huse, Washington, JC, The USA
To: The Nobel Peace Prize Committee and The International Organizations
Subject: Nominating Mohamed Sadig Kaboudvand an imprisoned journalist, human rights defender and founder of Kurdistan Human Rights Organization for the Nobel Peace Prize 2011.
A Kurdish Rebel Softens His Tone for Skeptical Ears
Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
“We want the Kurdish problem — as a nation’s problem, as a people’s problem — to be solved not by guns, but by dialogue.”
MURAT KARAYILAN, By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Research of the Arbil Citadel, Iraqi Kurdistan, First Season
Karel Nováček, with contribution by Tomáš Chabr, David Filipský, Libor Janíček, Karel Pavelka, Petr Šída, Martin Trefný and Pavel Vařeka1, Předloženo redakci v lednu 2008 (upravená verze v červnu 2008)
Who are terrorists? Who are genociders? Who are occupiers?
Is that the Kurds (occupied Kurdish homeland)? Is that the UK? Is that the USA?
None of them.
Is that German Nazi? Is that kemalist militant Turkey? Is that … ?
Kurdish political prisoner at imminent risk of execution
URMIYE, Iran, — The Kurdish political prisoner Mr. Hussein Xiziri who is sentenced to death is at imminent risk of execution, report said on Sunday.
URGENT ACTION – POLITICAL PRISONER FACES IMMINENT EXECUTION -I-
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According to his lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, Habibillah Latifi denied allegations made in court that he was involved in setting off acoustic explosions in the city of Sanandaj, and then filming them; as well as attempting to assassinate a judicial official in Sanandaj
URGENT ACTION – POLITICAL PRISONER FACES IMMINENT EXECUTION – II-
The execution of Habibollah Latifi, a male member of the Kurdish minority in Iran, has been scheduled for 26 December, according to his lawyer. He was sentenced to death following an unfair trial.
Poverty as the result of violence and discrimination against Kurdish people, Nina Henkens
Children’s Rights Mission to Turkish Kurdistan : The vicious circle of violence– forced migration-poverty-violence…
