July 13 2009 Good afternoon,Dear friends, · My name is Matthias Diependaele, newly elected Member of the Flemish Parliament for the N-VA, the New Flemish Alliance. As a former parliamentary assistant of Frieda Brepoels,...
Twenty four political entities, including five alliances and five personalities are participating in Kurdish parliamentary and presidency elections in Federal Kurdistan in Iraq next Saturday, 25 July 2009. According to observers, this election will be a turning point...
Pushing ahead with its stalled reform process and expanding the Kurdish minority’s cultural and political rights would boost Ankara’s flagging bid for European Union membership, taking the "historic opportunity" of which the president spoke in...
The relatives of the Syrian Kurdish journalist Emjad Osman have appealed urgently for help to the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) in Göttingen. They telephoned the human rights organisation on Friday, saying that it is now two months – 17^th May...
The unilateral truce, first announced by the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in March, had been due to expire on Wednesday but will now continue until September 1, the separatists said.The extension was decided in anticipation of a "roadmap for a democratic...
