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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.
Cemil Bayik: Political genocide is being imposed on the Kurds
KCK Executive Council Member Cemil Bayik stressed that the ‘dirty war’ of the 1990s had been put back into practise but using different methods. He said, ‘‘there is a campaign to exterminate the Democratic Kurdish Movement,’’ and added that those fighting against this would need to be patient and resolute. Bayik stressed that the Kurdish Freedom Movement had begun the process for a solution to the Kurdish issue beginning with the March 29th local elections. Against this the Turkish State had continued its policy of denial and extermination by adopting new methods, he emphasised.
European Parliament resolution of 10 February 2010 on Turkey’s progress report 2009
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2009 progress report on Turkey
Final Resolutions of the 6th Kurdish Conference at the European Parliament
http://www.info-turk.be
European Parliament, Brussels 3rd & 4th February 2010 – Room ASP 1G2
Introduction to Final Resolutions as read out at the Conference
Kurdish newspaper editor sentenced to 21 years in prison
“Freedom of expression must be extended once and for all to the Kurdish press,” Reporters Without Borders said today, reacting to the 21-year jail sentence which a court in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, has passed on Ozan Kilinç, the owner and editor of the country’s only Kurdish-language daily, Azadiya Welat.
Dozens of Kurdish BDP Members Arrested – Again
In operations carried out in eleven provinces last weekend the police arrested more than 100 people, most of them members of the Peace and Democracy Party. Of all people arrested in Hakkari, 15 persons were taken into detention.
The Stockholm Conference on Dêrsim genocide, By Evin Çiçek
Dear Members and friends,
First of all I want to thank the organizers of this conference for their invitation
and pay a tribute to the martyrs of our land, who died for a free, unified and
democratic Kurdistan.
Turkey’s Homework on Minority Rights
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe calls Turkey for a series of measures regarding religious minorities to be implemented throughout the coming twelve months. A progress report is expected by February 2011.
Tolga KORKUT
Open letter
to all members of the European Parliament and the Parliaments of the EU countries
Chemical Ali executed for his crimes
Chemical Ali who killed 100 000 Kurds and poisoned the Kurdish city Halabja was executed today. The gas and the poison used against the Kurds was made with the help of Soviet-Russia and the West.
