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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.
IRAQ: Turkish, Iranian shelling displaces villagers in north
SULAIMANIYAH, 5 July 2010 (IRIN) – Turkish and Iranian shelling of rebel positions in northern Iraq has forced hundreds of Iraqi Kurdish families out of their border villages into tent camps, local officials said on 4 July.
A Kurdish-Israeli alliance vis-à-vis the Arab-Turkish alliance? By Bangi Hajo
The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a speech a month ago, in the city of Konya, central Anatolia. Directing his comments to the Israeli government, he said that the Sixth Commandment in the Torah regarding murder says, ‘Thou shalt not kill’, and he repeated these words in Turkish, English and Hebrew. The following day, the leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party gave a response in relation to internal affairs, saying that the Eighth commandment of the Torah states, “Do not lie”.
IRAQ: Turkish, Iranian shelling displaces villagers in north
SULAIMANIYAH, 5 July 2010 (IRIN) – Turkish and Iranian shelling of rebel positions in northern Iraq has forced hundreds of Iraqi Kurdish families out of their border villages into tent camps, local officials said on 4 July.
The Punitive-Justice System that Kurdish Children are Subjected to in the 21st Century Turkey
“IS 25 YEARS NOT TOO MUCH JUST FOR HURLING A STONE”
Justice for imprisoned Kurdish children in Turkey
You are kindly invited to our forthcoming concert and film screening and seminar in solidarity with imprisoned Kurdish children in Turkey
Mahmoud Safo, member of Kurdish Left Party, Syria sentenced to one year
According to Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, Mahmoud Safo who was arrested on 28 March 2010 was sentenced on 20 June 2010 by an individual military judge in Qamishli to one year imprisonment, for inciting racial and sectarian hatred, and for being a leader of a secret unlicensed association. He is a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdish Left Party.
CHAK gave human rights award to Berîvan Sayaca
She is innocent as hundreds of kurdish children. But she is also have been treated with anti terror
laws. She faced with a very crowl treatment that she have not been seen before.
Turkey’s inhumane treatment of Kurdish children must be stopped
The Constitutional Court’s decision last falls to ban the pro-Kurdish party DTP led to massive
demonstrations and riots in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. These actions were followed by
a wave of arrests of children, which took place mainly in the Kurdish cities as Diyarbakir,
Mardin, Batman, Sirnak, Van, Hakkari and Urfa.
3 000 Kurdish children are imprisoned in Turkey
Children imprisoned and Turkey does not follow the Convention on the Rights of the Child
(CRC).
