Today, 14 April 2021, is the so-called Red Wednesday (Çarşema Sor). The Yazîdî Kurds’ New Year according to the mythology of the Yazidis. The Kurdish Institute expresses its warmest congratulations and blessings to the Yazîdîs. The Çarşema Sor for the Yazîdî...
On 7 November 2018, the imprisoned HDP deputy Leyla Güven started an indefinite hunger strike to protest against the isolation of the Kurdish political leader Abdullah Öcalan. After 67 days, her state of health is critical. In the meantime, 157 other political...
Until Turkey stops committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in its invasion and occupation of Afrin in northern Syria, and withdraws its military and proxy forces from Afrin, Kurdish Lobby Australia calls on the Australian Government and others in the...
On Thursday the 8th of February 2018 the European Parliament adopted yet another resolution condemning the current human rights situation in Turkey (2018/2527(RSP)). You can read and download the resolution in pdf below. Downloaden (PDF,...
The Turkish military actions of recent days on Syrian soil are directed against the Kurdish population in northern Syria (West Kurdistan) and especially against the metropolis of Afrin. The Kurdish community of Germany and its leader Ali Ertan Toprak are deeply...
10th December is Human Rights Day which is celebrated internationally. Today we are celebrating its seventieth anniversary. It was sixty-nine years ago, on 10 December 1948, when the world was just emerging from the aftermath of the Second World War whose horrors...
