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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.
Jailed ISIS member from Turkey: İsmail Ağa Sect sent me to ISIS
Islamic groups under the protection of the AKP government are facing no obstacles from the Turkish state as they freely perform their activities across the country to spread their propaganda and recruit members. Thursday, October 22, 2015 12:15 PM NEWS DESK - ANF...
HDP report on the violence in Turkey from July 20 to October 2015
Turkish president sees Syrian and Kurdish hands in Ankara attack
Published by Ekurd Daily, 22 October 2015 ISTANBUL,— Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Syrian intelligence and Kurdish militants, not just Islamic State, were behind a double suicide bombing in Ankara which killed more than 128 people, mostly Kurds,...
Diyarbakır Bar President Released
Published by Bianet on October 20, 2015 Diyarbakır Bar President Tahir Elçi has been released after his testimony was taken in İstanbul. A warrant had been issued for Diyarbakır Bar President Tahir Elçi’s arrest by Bakırköy Criminal Court of Peace on the ground that...
Is Ankara putting out false information about peace rally bombings? – Fehim Taştekin
Published by Al-Monitor on October 16, 2015 In an apparent attempt to hide its negligence, the Turkish government has imposed a media blackout on the probe into twin suicide bombings that claimed at least 99 lives at an Oct. 10 peace rally in Ankara. Turkish...
Doubts over Suruç Massacre Investigation – Beyza Kural
Published by Bianet on 20 October 2015 Justice for Suruç Platform remarking that there still hasn’t been any progress in the third month of the Suruç massacre states that effective investigation could have prevented Ankara Massacre. An explosion occurred on July 20...
Arab tribes in Syrian Kurdistan reject Amnesty Int’l report over YPG ‘war crimes’
Posted by Ekurd Daily on 16 October 2015 QAMISHLO, Syrian Kurdistan,— Ruspis Assembly of Arab Tribes in Jazeera (Cizîr) Canton in Syrian Kurdistan has condemned the Amnesty International over its report on alleged “forced displacement and home demolitions suffered by...
Gen. Comm. of the People’s Defense Units in Response to Amnesty International’s Oct. 8 Report
Published by People's Defense Units (YPG) on 19 October 2015 A Statement by the General Command of the People’s Protection Units To the Press and the General Public Amnesty International Report, published on 12 October 2015 and titled, “We Had Nowhere Else to Go –...
Head of Amed Bar detained and taken to Istanbul
Head of Diyarbakır Bar Association, Tahir Elçi, was detained last night in the scope of an arrest of capture for defending that “PKK is not a terrorist organization”. Tuesday, October 20, 2015, AMED - ANF Head of Diyarbakır Bar Association, Tahir Elçi, was detained...
