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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 Yzidian Religion, By Mamou Farhan Othman, Presidency of Kurdistan Regional Government
The Êzidi-Kurds are on of the Mesopotamian origin people who believe on the Yzidian Religion which is a old The Yzidian Religion and the transformational process: The social and political Situation of the Yezidi in Iraqi-Kurdistan
Interview With Akin Birdal
Turkish Poll May Help Kurdish Party Avoid Ban, Javno.hr – Zagreb,Croatia
Act Now, Cease Trying Children With Terror Charges
In a coordinated event in five cities, an initiative of nearly 40 NGOs sent letters to relevant authorities demanding an end to taking children to court on terror charges.
Rights activists in Istanbul, Adana, Ankara, Cizre and Diyarbakir sent letters to authorities today, demanding the immediate release of children who are tried with terror charges and that the principles of the juvenile justice system are put on to practice.
Death wells: Ergenekon’s Aceldama
Hayat and Abdülaziz Altinkaynak, whose son Davut went missing in 1995, console themselves with only his photo because his mother burned all of his things two years after he disappeared.
Six Baluch were hanged and 7 were shot dead in the last seven days, Reza Hossein Borr
London- 10.3.09–Six Baluch were hanged and 7 were shot dead in the last seven days.
28-29/01/2009, Final Resolutions of the 5th International EUTCC Conference
Final Resolutions of the 5th International EUTCC Conference on the EU, Turkey and the Kurds, held at the European Parliament in Brussels on 28-29 January 2009:
2008 Human Rights Report: Iran*
BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR, 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, February 25, 2009
Minister makes light of Deputy Minister Korbel’s corruption
Newspaper : Lidové Noviny,
9 February 2009
28-29/01/2009, 5th International Conference: EU-Turkey-Kurds ; Time is for the changes ?
5th Turco-Kurdo conference will take place in the European Parliament in the end of January. The aim of all these conferences since many years, to find a dialogue between Turkey and nearly 20 millions Kurds. But so long the war between Turkish army an Kurds continue, left many ten of thousand dead…
