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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.
International Initiative Analysis : Turkey crossed the Rubicon
“No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
The Turkish authorities are now at a crossroads the CPT is firmly convinced
that, whatever the circumstances, there can be no justification for keeping a prisoner
in such conditions of isolation for eight and a half years.” (CPT, report on Öcalan’s
prison conditions, published in
Kurdish Info 7.12.2009- SEVERE CONSEQUENCES OF CLASHES: 1 DEAD, HUNDREDS IN CUSTODY
Demonstrations protesting at the prison conditions imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan continued and increased today. There were demonstrations in Diyarbakir, Batman, Istanbul, Hakkari and Mardin amongst other places. In many areas stores did not open for business and police intervention was very harsh. University student Aydin Erdem was massacred by police, hundreds of people were wounded and 260 were arrested in Diyarbakir.
KURDISH INFO, 29 11 2009
INDEX
*Ocalan: The changes that will take place here are the intensified form of solitary
*Mehmet Ocalan: We have concluded the most difficult meeting of the last 10 years
*Karayilan: You cannot take a single step without PKK
*17.881 books of Ocalan have been confiscated at operations in 4 cities
*PAJK's ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women' statement
RESOLUTION ON IRAN
COUNCIL
SANTO DOMINGO COUNCIL – At a turning point for a sustainable future – the Social Democratic Way Forward
The European Parliament’s “DRAFT MOTION FOR RESOLUTION” on the so-called “2009 Turkey’s progress report” (enlargment).
The adoption of the FINAL resolution in scheduled for February 2010, in Strasbourg (after our next International Conference on "EU, Turkey and the Kurds", to be held in the European Parliament – BRUSSELS – 3/4 of February 2010 – which is very, very good…)
We certainly shall consider the opportunity to table amendments to the report, especially on the "Kurdish issue" track, but "not only".
DTP – Democratic Society Party, The Week in Review, 16 November 2009
* Alevis up in Arms against CHP’s Öymen after Dersim Remarks
* Children's Rights Should Become Part of the "Democratic Initiative"
* Mr Öcalan's Attorney Asks: Modern Prison = Proper Applications?
* DTP Member Demirtaş Appeals against Prison Sentence
*2 Landmine Victims in Turkey Every Week
INFORMATION FILE ON KURDISH CHILDREN
Every child must be trialled according to the special procedures for young people
of underage. Denial of freedom should be the last measure for children who are in
conflict with the law. None of the children could be deprived of any of his or her rights
and should be able to enjoy his or her right to education in any case….
TURKEY 2009 PROGRESS REPORT
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION
TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL
KURDISH INFO, Bulletin, 20.11.2009
• Öcalan: A new phase has been entered
• Öcalan No Longer Single Prisoner on İmralı Island
• Press statement of Abdullah Ocalan's legal team:No progress, but aggravation of the isolation
• KCK: The AKP’s approach has Taken the issue to an ambiguous position
• The AKP's annihilation plan
• The IHD Analis on Childreen Issues
• The Iranian regime's thereat to the kurds:CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
