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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.
PYD And Democratic Syria Assembly Not Attending Geneva III
Published by Kurdish Question on 27 January 2016 After much speculation and confusion it has been confirmed that Rojava's Democratic Union Party (PYD) has not been invited to the Geneva III Syria Talks. Commenting on the situation PYD co-chair Saleh Moslem said that...
Spain arrests nine over links to Kurdish PKK
Posted by Ekurd Daily on January 27, 2016 MADRID,— Spanish police arrested nine people on Wednesday accused of belonging to and collaborating with a criminal and terrorist organisation due to connections with the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the...
Urgent: Still no connection with the wounded trapped in a basement in Cizre
Published by ANF on Thursday, January 28, 2016 10:15 AM ŞIRNAK - As the atrocity of Turkish forces is getting heavier in Kurdish towns under curfew, 28 people who are trapped in a basement in Cudi neighborhood for 6 days continue suffering a deliberate torture. The...
Undoing Years of Progress in Turkey – ABDULLAH DEMIRBAS
Published by The New York Times on JAN. 26, 2016 ISTANBUL — Entire towns and districts are under siege. Tanks ram through narrow alleys closed off by barricades and trenches. Residents are trapped indoors for weeks because of curfews. Those who venture outside risk...
The crackdown against the Kurdish people must stop – Call of the EP-Kurdish Friendship Group
For a month now, the Turkish army has been running jointly with the special police forces an operation of unprecedented violence against the towns located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. 10,000 men supported by tanks and helicopters are mobilized for this offensive...
Amnesty International Report – TURKEY: END ABUSIVE OPERATIONS UNDER INDEFINITE CURFEWS
Published by Amnesty International, 21 January 2016 Amnesty International calls on the Turkish government to end the indefinite curfews in Kurdish neighbourhoods across east and south-east Turkey. For several months, Amnesty International has been urging the...
Dispute Over Opposition’s Seat at Table Threatens to Push Back Syria Peace Talks – SOMINI SENGUPTA
Published by New York Times, 18 January 2016 UNITED NATIONS — Barely a month after the world’s most powerful countries agreed to an ambitious road map to end the five-year-old war in Syria, there is still no agreement on who, if anyone, will show up at the...
Amnesty accuses Turkey of ‘collective punishment’ in Kurdish southeast
Published by Yahoo News, 21 January 2016 Istanbul (AFP) - Turkey security forces are subjecting residents of Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey to "collective punishment" with military operations backed by curfews, Amnesty International said on Thursday, accusing...
Is a witch hunt underway against Turkish intellectuals? – Cengiz Çandar
Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest outside the headquarters of Cumhuriyet newspaper, whose editor-in-chief Can Dundar was arrested on charges of espionage and terrorist propaganda, in Istanbul, Nov. 29, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/Osman Orsal) Published...
