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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.
The Right of _ations to Determine Their Own Future and the Kurds
By Turkish Sociologist Dr Ismail BesikciPublished in the winter 2010 edition of Turkish magazine
The Army also dominates, through OYAK, the country’s economy
The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) continues to exert control and influence not only over the Turkish political arena, but also, through the Turkish Armed Forces Assistance Center (OYAK), which has become a large industrial conglomerate, over the country’s economy.
Two Kurds arrested in Aleppo, Syria
According to the Central Media Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Convergence Party in Syria, on 27 July 2010 the Syrian state security forces in Aleppo arrested two of their members:
Kurdish Mayor prosecuted over his speech on Autonomy in Turkey
Dersim public prosecutor office launched a criminal investigation against the mayor of Diyarbakir over his speech on Democratic Autonomy for Kurdistan.
The Turkish army is conducting an unjust war and atrocities in Kurdistan
The Foreign Affairs Commission of Kurdistan National Congress
KURDISH INFO 14.07.2010
L'armée turque brûle les forêts
KURDISH INFO 12.07.2010
Turkish State Terror against Kurdish Population
Images of working lives: Experiences of Kurdish migrants in London
Photo Exhibition, Organized by Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
Date: Friday 16th- 23rd July 2010 ( Exhibition opening reception 5pm on Friday 16th July 2010)
Venue: RenkArt Centre, 86 Stoke Newington High Street, Stoke Newington N16 7PA
Zeyneb Bayezidi staged a hunger strike
ZANJAN PRISON, Iran, — Miss Zeyneb Bayezidi who has been held in Zanjan prison for the last two years, staged a hunger strike due to the bad situation of the Iranian prisons for female prisoners.
