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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.
Is it not time to call a halt to Erdogan’s fascism? KNK Statement
Is it not time to call a halt to Erdogan’s fascism? The Turkish state and its President R. T. Erdogan are speedily heading towards a one-man system, or in other words: The Hitler model. The Turkish oligarchy, entrenched by a fascistic mentality, is conducting a...
Is it not time to call a halt to Erdogan’s fascism?
The Turkish state and its President R. T. Erdogan are speedily heading towards a one-man system, or in other words: The Hitler model. The Turkish oligarchy, entrenched by a fascistic mentality, is conducting a policy of destruction, annihilation and looting in...
Turkish Intellectuals Who Have Recognized The Armenian Genocide: Doğan Özgüden
By Hambersom Aghbashian, MassisPost, May 20, 2016 Doğan Özgüden (born 1936, Kalecik, Ankara) is a Turkish journalist and publisher. He completed his high school education in Ankara and got a license diploma from the Higher School of Economic and Commercial Sciences...
Democracy After pre-vote, AKP still short on Turkey immunity bill
Published by Deutsche Welle 18 May 2016 Turkey's parliament is looking ahead to a bitter vote on stripping MPs of immunity. The bill, which has led MPs to fisticuffs in the past, passed a preliminary vote with a large majority in the legislature late Tuesday. Turkey's...
Will Turkey let UN officials snoop in the southeast?
Published by Al-Monitor 17 May 2016 Turkey’s US and European allies continue to maintain a near silence over the country’s steady descent into a human rights nightmare, even as respected global watchdogs chronicle the abuses taking place there on an almost daily...
Turkey hit Kurdish city with internationally-banned Phosphorus bombs: activists
Published by ARA News 18 May 2016 NUSAYBIN – The Turkish army forces have reportedly used the internationally-banned Phosphorus bombs in its military campaign on the Kurdish city of Nusaybin, southeast Turkey, activists and eyewitnesses reported on Tuesday. This comes...
PUK-Gorran agreement will lead to greater democracy in Kurdistan: Nawshirwan
Published by Ekurd 18 May 2016 by Editorial Staff in Politics SULAIMANI, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— The head of the Change Movement (Gorran), Nawshirwan Mustafa, said on Tuesday the bilateral agreement reached with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) will lead to...
Student in Turkey accused of terror propaganda for speaking Kurdish
Published by Rudaw 14 May 2016 ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish college student was kicked out of her hostel, lost her scholarship, and was questioned by the police on terrorism charges after being heard speaking in Kurdish on the phone. Twenty-year old Pinar...
Yazidi women respond to Massoud Barzani over PKK, Sinjar comments
Published by Ekurd 15 May 2016 HEWLÊR-Erbil, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— Shingal Yazidi Women’s Assembly strongly condemned the KDP leader Massoud Barzani’s meeting with Yazidi community leaders in the village of Sihêla where he pressured Yazidis to fight against the...
