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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 Turkey arming radical groups in Syria? – Semih Idiz
Published by Al-Monitor, May 26, 2015 The accusation that Turkey has provided radical Islamists in Syria with weapons, and keeps doing so, continues to be voiced despite government officials' denials. Ankara’s reluctance to get actively involved in the US-led military...
Turkey restricts academic research on Syrian refugees – Barın Kayaoğlu
Published by AL MONITOR, May 27, 2015 Turkey’s Ministry of Interior has informed academics that they need prior approval before conducting research on Syrian refugees living in the country. In a directive dated April 10 and classified as “secret,” the Higher Education...
No to the lynching campaign against journalist Dogan Özgüden
Journalist Dogan Özgüden, humanist and defender of human and minority rights, has been target of a new lynching campaign launched by Turkish negationists and ultranationalists. On the occasion of the centenary commemorations of the 1915 Genocide, these circles develop...
The Stateless Journalist Doğan Özgüden is our Conscience!
The honor and conscience of our geography, human rights activists, the Stateless Journalist Doğan Özgüden is targeted in Brussels, the European Union’s capital where he has been living in exile for 44 years and nationalists try to turn him into a target of their...
HDP Statement – recent attacks on our party
YOU CANNOT DISMAY US THROUGH ATTACKS The attacks on our party are increasing as the elections are approaching. So far, 60 different places including our party offices, party headquarters, cars, members and volunteers have been attacked. The attacks against our...
Iran: Scrap death sentence for juvenile offender to prove UN review more than a ‘PR stunt’
Amnesty International, 18 March 2015, 17:03 UTC The Iranian authorities must prove that their participation at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is more than a mere PR exercise, by halting any plans to execute an alleged juvenile offender and ordering a judicial...
Iranian Kurds rise up as their leaders remain divided
Published by Ekurd.net, May 12, 2015 QANDIL,—Spring has arrived in Qandil, the majestic mountain range separating Iran from Iraq. But the bucolic calm enveloping this far-flung corner of the Middle East could be shattered at any time. Iranian fighter jets periodically...
Fertilizer, Also Suited for Bombs, Flows to ISIS Territory From Turkey
Published by The New York Times, BEN HUBBARD and KARAM SHOUMALIMAY 4, 2015 AKCAKALE, Turkey — The laborers work all day, piling bags of fertilizer onto carts and wheeling them through the crossing that connects this southern border town to Syria. The Syrian town next...
Turkey, U.S. to start training, equipping Syrian rebels
By Menekse Tokyay | Special to Al Arabiya News Thursday, 7 May 2015 Turkey will start training and equipping moderate Syrian rebels from May 9 at a military base in central Kırşehir province, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told Yeni Şafak newspaper. A group...
