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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.
‘Anti-PKK operations not connected to DTP closure case’
A recent operation against dozens of individuals suspected of ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in which several members of Turkey's largest Kurdish political party, the Democratic Society Party (DTP), were arrested, does not aim to provide evidence for an ongoing closure case against the DTP, according to analysts.
Two Kurdish politicians sentenced to ten months imprisonment for spreading propaganda
SOURCE: IPS Communication Foundation (BIANET), Istanbul
Turkey’s new wave of repression must be resisted
News of a wave of arrests of Democratic Society Party (DTP) members across the Turkey is deeply dismaying and can only bode ill for the future of the country.
Tripartite meeting in Baghdad aims to counter PKK
The Media Line News Agency , THE JERUSALEM POST
A three-party meeting including American, Iraqi and Turkish officials is taking place in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday. Topping the agenda is a discussion on how to tackle the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) – deemed a terrorist organization by Ankara, the official Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reports.
Two Kurdish newspapers suspended for a month for “spreading PKK propaganda”
(BIANET/IFEX) – The Istanbul 13th Heavy Penal Court has handed down one-month publication bans to two newspapers for allegedly spreading PKK propaganda.
Belgium delegation, By Nina Henkens*
Belgium delegation from Antwerp noticed serious violations of the rights of Kurdish children during their mission to observe the local elections last March 29. – The Turkish anti-terror law has led to the criminalisation of Kurdish children.
The rights of Kurdish children are violated
The Dream of a Kurdish State, By Hewa Aziz
Sulaimaniyah, Asharq Al-Awsat- Throughout its long history, the forty-million strong Kurdish nation has never had its own independent state. Since the decline of the Median Empire some 3000 years ago, the Kurds have remained part of other states or, at the best, managed to establish scattered principalities as part of larger empires dominating the region such as the Islamic and Ottoman Empires.
President Obama Misses Fundamental Kurdish Issues in Turkey
Kurdishaspect.com – By Martin Zehr
Human rights violations of Kurdish children, Nina Henkens
A delegation from Antwerp, Belgium noticed some very serious violation af childrens rights during their mission to observe the local elections in the South-East of Turkey on the 29th of march. A change in the anti-terrorismlaw has led to the criminalisation of Kurdish children.
