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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.
On Human Rights Day (KNK statement)
10th December is Human Rights Day which is celebrated internationally. Today we are celebrating its seventieth anniversary. It was sixty-nine years ago, on 10 December 1948, when the world was just emerging from the aftermath of the Second World War whose horrors...
On massacre in the Refuge Camp (Şehîd Rustem) of Mexmûr city (Iraq-Kurdistan) (KNK statement)
The Şehîd Rustem Cûdî Camp of Mexmûr city came under a missile attack on 6 December at 18:45 with the local time. According to a statement by the Camp’s Assembly, five people (member of the local self-defence units) has been killed and three wounded. Accommodating...
Turkey’s Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas goes on trial over ‘terror’ links, facing 142 years in jail
Published by Ekurd Daily on the 7th of December 2017 Selahattin Demirtas, absent from ‘terror’ trial, to stay in jail SINCAN, Turkey,— A Turkish court on Thursday ordered the co-leader of the main pro-Kurdish opposition party to remain in custody after over a year...
Letter of Support for HDP-chairs: “Democracy in Turkey is going on trial”
Published by The Guardian on the 5th of December 2017 A letter signed by Noam Chomsky, Clive Lewis MP, Peter Tatchell and others calls for opposition politicians Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ to be released from prison ...
The case of Kisanak and Tuncel: Resistance and the theatrics of repression – John Hunt
Published by The Region on 30/11/17 The two defendants greeted us with broad smiles as we squeezed into the small courtroom in Malatya, where the police had already occupied half the seats, forcing...
Why international support is required to resolve disputes between the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government
by Dr. Gina Lennox - Kurdish Lobby Australia 23 November 2017 Request Kurdish Lobby Australia requests that the Australian Government advocate and use all levers available in support of mediated negotiations between the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional...
Public Forum: The PKK is not a terrorist organisation. Analysis of the Belgian Court Decision.
On Monday evening, 20th November 2017, the Centre for Kurdish Progress, Peace in Kurdistan and CAMPACC co-hosted a meeting at the House of Lords to discuss the political and legal implications of the recent decision in the Belgian Court of Appeal which found that the...
Heartbreak in Turkey’s Diyarbakir as development transforms ancient Sur – Mahmut Bozarslan
Published by Al-Monitor on November 21, 2017 "Had the civilization here dated back 70,000 years instead of 7,000, the same thing would have happened," said Serefhan Aydin, the president of the...
ROJAVA: A Utopia in the Heart of Syria’s Chaos – Film by Chris Den Hond and Mireille Court
While battling the Islamic state, Kurds and other ethnic groups in Northern Syria are trying to install a political project. They call it the “Democratic Federation of Northern...
