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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.
Are the Kurds prepared to liberate Raqqa from ISIS? – Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Published by ARA News on the 18th of March 2016 SULAYMANIYAH – Salih Muslim, leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) that controls Syria’s Kurdish region, or Rojava, said on Thursday that it is a priority for the People’s Protection Units (YPG) to liberate Raqqa,...
ISIS threatens to attack Kaka’i religious minority in Iraq – Sozbin Celeng
Published by ARA News on the 20th of March ERBIL – Extremists of the Islamic State group (ISIS) have vowed to “pursue and kill” members of the Kaka’i religious group in northern Iraq, considering them “infidels who must be eliminated”, local sources reported. The...
Iraqi army starts offensive to recapture Islamic State-held Mosul
Published by Ekurd 24 March 2016 BAGHDAD,— Iraqi troops and Shiite militia backed by by air power from a U.S.-led coalition and Kurdish peshmerga forces launched a long-awaited operation on Thursday to recapture second city Mosul from jihadists of the Islamic...
Iran conducted mass male executions at least in four other villages in Baluchistan – Jamal Ekhtiar
Published by Iran Rights Transparency (IRT) on the 16th of March 2016 The recent controversial mass male executions in Iran, was rejected by top Iranian officials like Larijani, but Baloch sources, say they know at least four other villages whose male members are...
‘The old heart of Kurdistan is bleeding to death’ – Toon Lambrechts
Published by Mo* Magazine on the 21st of March 2016 Since August last year, the violence in the Kurdish region of southeastern Turkey flared up again. Kurdish youth affiliated with the PKK engaged in battle with the state police and army. The fights struck Sur, the...
Behind the barricades in Nusaybin – Toon Lambrechts
Published by Mo* Magazine on 21th of March 2016 Nusaybin is likely to be the next battlefield in the struggle between the Turkish army and Kurdish militants. In the border town, plenty of digging to erect new barricades is going on in the neighbourhoods that have...
Erdogan’s new Kurdistan – Toon Lambrechts
For months already, heavy fighting wreak havoc in the Kurdish cities of Turkey, without any sign of appeasement, on the contrary. Yet, the Turkish government and the politicians of the governing AKP are already planning how to redraw the southeast thoroughly once the...
Intense Clashes Continue in Kurdish District Nusaybin
Tanks and special force teams in Nusaybin Published by Kurdish Question 23 March 2016 Clashes between Turkish state forces and Civilian Defence Units (YPS) continue in Mardin's Nusaybin district. A round-the-clock curfew (martial lockdown) was declared in the...
Belgium refutes Erdoğan on ISIS member involved in Brussels attacks
Published by ANF 24 March 2016 Refuting Turkish President Erdoğan's remarks that the ISIS member related to the bomb attacks in Brussel had been extradited to Belgium by Turkey, Belgium’s Minister of Justice said, “This person was sent to the Netherlands, not our...
