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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.
Turkish civic society mobilizes against election fraud – Kadri Gursel
Published by Al-Monitor, May 28, 2015 - As Turkey’s June 7 general elections draw near, the fate of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinges on whether the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), an offshoot of the Kurdish...
Pro-Kurdish HDP election bus driver shot dead in Turkey’s southeast
Ekurd Daily, 4/6/15, DIYARBAKIR-AMED, Unidentified assailants fired on a campaign minibus of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey’s Kurdish region in the southeast of the country, on Wednesday, killing the driver, local media reported, only days...
Turkey: Artists Call the Government for a Safe and Fair Election
Published by Bianet, Istanbul, May 26, 2015 200 people, journalists, academicians, artists, poets and writers among them, called on the government: Provide a safe and peaceful election urgently without giving in the President’s unlawful and uneasy interventions. 200...
Fate of Kurdish presidency divides Iraqi Kurds – Mohammed A. Salih
Published by Al-Monitor, May 22, 2015 ERBIL, Iraq — As the tenure of Iraqi Kurdistan's President Massoud Barzani is coming to an end soon, the question of transfer of power has divided Kurdish political factions and threatens to destabilize the Kurdistan Region of...
SYRIA – Interview with the prime minister of Jazeera: a federal way out for Syria?
Published by The Maghreb and Orient Courier, May 2015 Akram Hesso is the Prime Minister of the Regional Government of the Jazeera (Cizîrê), one of the three Kurdish cantons in northern Syria, called « Rojava ». Each one of the three cantons has declared its regional...
One year changes in the military situation in Syria
Published by The Maghreb and Orient Courier, May 2015 Since February 2015, Syria has entered its 4th year of a full, intense and bloody war. One year ago, in May 2014, despite a few setbacks, loyalists (Syrian government) seemed to hold firmly after series of...
Kurds liberate Christian villages from Islamic State in Syrian Kurdistan
Published by Ekurd Daily, May 27, 2015 BEIRUT,— Kurdish forces have driven the Islamic State group from more than a dozen Assyrian Christian villages that the jihadists had captured in Syrian Kurdistan region in northeast of the country, a monitor said Wednesday....
Iran: Fate of Kurdish detainees in Mahabad uprising remains unclear
Published by Ekurd Daily, May 27, 2015 ERBIL,— Iranian Kurdish activists say authorities have not provided the families of more than 100 detainees of the Mahabad riots in Iran’s Kurdistan region earlier this month with further information about their family members’...
Erdogan’s presidential dreams hang by thread – Amberin Zaman
Published by Al-Monitor, May 27, 2015 For the last 12 years, Turkey’s Islamists led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seemed invincible. His Justice and Development Party (AKP) romped from one electoral victory to the other, each time snatching a bigger part of the...
