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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 Political Program of the Unity Democratic Kurd Party In Syria
The usual sixth conference (congress) Of the Unity Kurd Democratic Party in Syria – Yakiti –
Kurdistan National Congress:ROAD MAP OF ABDULLAH OCALAN FOR PEACE
Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), has composed a 160 pages
"road map" of what he believes will lead to a solution of the Kurdish question. In this week's meeting with his
lawyers Öcalan reported that he submitted his road map to the Imralı Prison management, together with
another 600 pages on "Democratization of Middle East Culture."
Pro-Kurdish DTP says ‘yes’ to ‘an honorable peace’
The mass rally of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) on Tuesday in Diyarbakır was full of appeals for peace, but in the background was the underlying relationship between the DTP and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which is listed as a terrorist organization by the US, the EU and Turkey.
Ocalan: My proposals for a solution are under 6 headings
Kurdish Info – 05.09.2009- The following is an assessment made by Kurdish Leader Abdullah Öcalan regarding the latest political developments and his Road Map to his lawyers on September 2nd 2009. It has been compiled from a news item in ANF.
IHD protests against the suspension of the daily Günlük
Declaration of IHD Vice-President Ismail Boyraz:
Notorious Diyarbakir Prison to become history
"Some of the more well-known figures who served time in the prison include Democratic Society Party (DTP) leader Ahmet Türk and former DTP deputies Nurettin Yilmaz, Celal Paydas, Mustafa Cakmak and former mayor Mehdi Zana as well as Kurdish writer and intellectual Orhan Miroglu and poet Yilmaz Odabasi. The father of Kurdish writer Altan Tan, Bedii Tan, lost his life in this prison as a result of torture…"
PDKI Press Release on the loss of four Peshmargas
The Political-Military Commission of Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDKI), with immense grief and sadness, would like to inform the public that a team of our comrades named Hussein Mohammedi, Yousef Feghehi, Azad Barayie and Seifola Dunyayie gave their lives following a two day clash with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) outside the city of Saghez in Iranian Kurdistan on Friday the 21st of August.
“Military Cannot Interfere in Our Debate on a Solution”
Istanbul – BİA News Center, 26 August 2009
Turkey: Hopes of a peaceful solution of the Kurdish question vanish
Army leaders stick to Kemalist state ideology: Hopes of a peaceful solution of the Kurdish question vanish – Society for Threatened Peoples warns of escalation
