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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.
Alarming Appeal of the Callers of Justice for Children in Turkey
The Callers of Justice for Children Call in Turkey have sent to all human rights organisations and activists the following appeal:
TURKEY: MILITARY GHOST RISES AGAIN, Jacques N. Couvas
ANKARA (IPS) – Less than two years after its discreet sealing, the truce between ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) seems to have ended.
Address by Bart STAES
Member of the European Parliament (GREENS)
In memories of Armenian Genocide 1915: A Kurdish perspective
Kurdishaspect.com – By Ara Alan
The AKP in front of the “Kurdish Taboo”
After calmer times, the Kurdish issue resurfaced today as part of the great domestic policy adjustment that shapes Turkey.
Reinstatement of the case of the murder on Dr. A. Ghassemlo
To: The Austrian government
Municipalities take position against coup perpetrators
While politicians quarrel over whether or not to pave the way for a settling of accounts with the perpetrators of the Sept. 12, 1980 coup, some civil society organizations and municipalities have sped up efforts to confront the coup organizers and military personnel who used varying forms of excessive force against people during the coup.
New constitution of Iraqi Kurdistan is a model for the nationality and minority politics of the Near-east
The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) has described the new constitution of the autonomous federal state of Iraqi Kurdistan as a shining model for the nationality politics and the solution of the minority problems in the Near-east.
Ferment and Fetters in the Study of Kurdish Nationalism, Amir Hassanpor
Kurdish Scholar, Amir Hassanpour, critically reviews Hakan Ozoglu's. Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. xv + 186 pp ISBN 978-0-7914-5993-5.
