PRESS RELEASE – KURDISH INSTITUTE – 23 april 2024 Has there ever been any evidence of a danger of terrorist activities from the Kurdish diaspora in Belgium and neighboring countries? Are people actually aware of where the real danger to our Western...
Today marks exactly 25 years since Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK, was kidnapped in Kenya by Turkish special forces. Since then, Öcalan has been locked up in complete isolation on a deserted Turkish island. The Kurdish Institute...
Conference Sovereignty or Nationalism? Free State Rijeka Association and the Coppieters Foundation November 22, 2023 Dear attendees, my name is Orhan Kiliç and for many years, I am a member of the Board of Directors for the Kurdish Institute Brussels. Over the recent...
During his recent trip through Başȗr (Iraqi Kurdistan), Gerhard J. Blankers, preacher at the Restored Reformed Church in the Netherlands, managed to meet Mala Bakhtyar and set up a fascinating conversation with this thinker and writer. Mala Bakhtyar is best known as a...
“The perpetrators of the Ankara attack did not pass through our regions as Turkish officials claimed. We are not a party to the civil conflict in Turkey and we do not encourage the escalation of this conflict. Turkey’s search for excuses to justify its...
News update and video message from Info-Türk – chief editor Doğan Özgüden (Mars 1, 2023) A law firm and two nongovernmental organizations advocating human rights and the rule of law have sent a communication to the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking the...