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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.
Kobanê, two years after Daesh
Published on Kedistan on 13 July 2017. This article is based on a series of interviews done in Kobanê in January 2017. The author, Margot Cassiers, is a staff member at the Kurdish Institute in Brussels (Belgium). We enter the city at night, but at a time when no...
Demirtas’s open call to the chair of the AKP
First of all, I will return your insult that targeted the will of millions in my name. However, from another point of view, I would like to “thank you” because of your confession. You have saved us from the burden of trying to prove that the ongoing procedure against...
Syrian Kurds call on international community to stop Turkish attacks – Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Published by ARA News on June 30, 2017 Kurdish officials have called on the international coalition to stop Turkey’s military operation against Rojava-Northern Syria. The Syrian Kurds say that the operation, which targets Afrin (Efrîn) District, could imperil...
Turkey’s real target on way to Idlib: Kurds – Fehim Tastekin
Published by Al-Monitor on July 2, 2017 (Pictures altered by Kurdish Institute) Turkey wants to be part of the de-escalation process in Syria, especially if that means it can multitask and wipe out the Kurdish corridor at the same time. Turkey supposedly...
Syrian Democratic Council calls on Arab and international community to pressure Turkey over war plans
Published by Kurdish Question on July 2, 2017 The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC/MSD) has released a statement in relation to recent threats by the Turkish government against Rojava's Afrin Canton and condemned the practices of the Turkish state while calling on the...
Amnesty Issues Urgent Action: Hundreds at Imminent Risk of Forced Eviction in Sur (Amed, Diyarbakir)
Published by Amnesty International on June 29, 2017 Amnesty International today issued an Urgent Action calling on Turkey to halt forced evictions in the Sur District of Diyarbakir. Hundreds of residents in the Alipaşa and Lalebey neighbourhoods of the Sur district in...
Ankara’s offer to Moscow: Give us Afrin for Idlib – Metin Gurcan
Published by Al-Monitor on July 3, 2017 Tension is escalating rapidly west of the Euphrates River, especially in the area of Syria's Afrin canton controlled by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), and at Idlib, controlled by a motley collection of...
Up to 20,000 FSA, Turkish troops to launch anti-Kurdish operation – Turkish media
Published by KomNews on 2 July 2017 Around 20,000 members of opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA), composed mostly of Islamic fundamentalist groups, and Turkish troops will participate in a new military operation in the northwestern Syrian Afrin region, which is under...
HDP PRESS RELEASE: We condemn the arrest of the CHP MP Enis Berberoğlu
We condemn the arrest of the CHP MP Enis Berberoğlu The coup targeting democracy, a process that began on 20 May 2016 with the lifting of parliamentary immunity in Parliament, continued with tens of municipal co-Chairs being arrested, the appointment of government...
