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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: Struggling from the Qandil Mountains
It is in these mountains that the guerrillas of the Parti Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK) live and wage their 26-year-old war against Turkey. They offer ideal terrain for guerrilla fighters. Accessible only through a network of narrow, near impenetrable passes, the mountains serve as a launching ground for the PKK and the allied Iranian Kurdish PEJAK into their respective areas of operation.
H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H: Turkey, Protesting as a Terrorist Offense
The Arbitrary Use of Terrorism Laws to Prosecute
and Incarcerate Demonstrators in Turkey
TURKEY 2010 PROGRESS REPORT
accompanying the COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2010-2011
Ongoing Systematic Violations of Human Rights in Iranian Kurdistan
The Machine of repression of the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Kurds continues to crack down with
the usual intensity.
Iran/Discrimination
Damning report on an ignored issue: Discrimination against
ethnic and religious minorities in Iran
Kurdistan: Sole Safe Haven For Christians In Iraq
Many Christians, who have been the most vulnerable religious minority targeted by Islamic militants in Iraq since 2003, say that they have found a safe and well-protected haven here in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.
Iranian militaries killed a Kurdish worker
SERDESHT, Eastern Kurdistan, — The Iranian Revolutionary Guards shot down another Kurdish worker who was working on the pseudo-borders of Kurdistan. (Iran- Iraqi borders)
KCK: Unilateral ceasefire until 2011 elections
Kurdish Info – The Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Confederation (KCK) has announced that the unilateral ceasefire, which ended yesterday, has been extended up to the 2011 general elections.
Mass trial of Kurds viewed as touchstone of Turkish democracy
Diyarbakir, Turkey’s Kurdistan: Observers at a mass trial of dozens of Kurdish activists and politicians in Turkey see the trial as “a political process” and not a “judicial” one, saying that it will be a major benchmark of democracy in the country.
