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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.
Noam Chomsky points North Ireland model for Kurdish problem
"U.S. was never a friend to Kurdish people. Kurds should understand this. Kurds has no friends but the mountains. They should remember this.”
“Closing Roj TV is the same as closing DTP”
Selahattin Demirtaş and Gültan Kışanak, Co-Chairs of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) reacted against efforts to close down Roj TV.
Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue
Edited by Marlies Casier, Joost Jongerden,
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
5 Children Arrested for School Boycott Campaign
BDP District Mayor Demirel and 5 children were arrested in the town of Tutak when they distributed leaflets on the school boycott for the right to education in their mother tongue. BDP Provincial Chair Akyol was also interrogated in the context of the boycott.
European initiative to protect Kurdish identity and to improve integration
PRESS RELEASE
Brussels, September 23 2010
Trade and economic relations with Turkey
P7_TA-PROV(2010)0324
European Parliament resolution of 21 September 2010 on trade and economic relations with Turkey (2009/2200(INI))
School Boycott for Education in Mother Tongue
The education union Egitim-Sen and pro-Kurdish organizations called for a one-week school boycott in the Kurdish-majority South-East to claim the right to education in their mother tongue. President Gül criticized the boycott as the "enlisting of children for a political cause".
Der Spiegel: Turkish army used chemical weapons against Kurdish guerrillas
http://www.kurdish-info.eu/media/files/ChemicalWeaponsTurkey.pdf
Comment by Lothar Bisky
Turkish referendum: Erdogan's opportunity to open dialogue with Kurds
