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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.
Urgent Call: Worsening Situation in Turkish Prisons (HDP statement)
23/11/2016 Urgent Call: Worsening Situation in Turkish Prisons Recently there have been several news and claims in the Turkish and international media that uprisings might be provoked in the prisons of Turkey to provide the government the excuse and opportunity to...
Turkey Arrest Warrant Co-President PYD, Mr Salih Muslim Mohammed (PYD Public Statement)
PYD Public Statement 22-11-2016 We, the General Council of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), condemn the Turkish authorities' arrest warrant for the Co-President of the PYD, Mr Salih Muslim Mohammed. We emphasise that we do not recognise this warrant, which...
The Turkish government’s assault on Kurdish municipalities continues full force! (HDP statement)
17.11.2016 The Turkish government’s assault on Kurdish municipalities continues full force! (HDP statement) The Erdoğan-AKP regime’s onslaught on Kurdish municipalities has gained new momentum. On November 16th, Mr Tuncer Bakirhan, co-mayor of Siirt, as well as Mr...
The Turkish Governments enmity of democracy and Kurds continues (KNK statement)
TURKEY: The country where democracy, human rights, freedom and the rule of law has come to an end and replaced with battlefields, destruction and dungeons. The Turkish Governments enmity of democracy and Kurds continues Balance-sheet for attacks on elected...
Turkish extremists tried to set the Kurdish Institute on fire again
On Thursday, November 17th, 2016, thousands of people gathered in Brussels to raise awareness about the increasingly authoritarian policies in Turkey. The demonstrators consisted of Kurdish, Turkish, Armenian, Alevi and many other groups, but also of Belgian and...
Is Turkey on the fast track to fascism? – Cengiz Çandar
Published by Al-Monitor on November 4, 2016 (after the arrests of the HDP-parliamentarians) An email I received around noon today from a young Turkish academic with impeccable credentials, whom I know very closely, ended with the following precautionary note: “*PLEASE...
HDP Brief on the lllegal Arrests of our Co-chairs and Members of Parliament and the Eradication of Rule of Law In Turkey
This brief presents an overview of the illegality of the entire political and judicial process leading up to the arrest of our Co-Chairs Mr Selahattin Demirtaş and Mr Figen Yüksekdağ, along with eight other MPs of our party on 4 and 7 November 2016. [gview...
European Commission: Key findings of the 2016 Report on Turkey
European Commission - Fact Sheet Published by the European Commission, Brussels, 9 November 2016 Key findings of the 2016 Report on Turkey Read the full report below. This year's report on Turkey is issued in the specific context of a military coup attempt which...
EU has to freeze the accession talks with Ankara, say S&Ds
Press release of Ms. Kati PIRI, Member of the European Parliament (Socialist Group, The Netherlands) and Draftswoman of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee for EU-Turkey relation, requesting the EU “to immediately freeze the accession talks until the...
