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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.

My Very Precious Co-Presidents, My Dear Friends,

I greet you with love and longing. I embrace you with hope.

We will soon finish the third year of our separation. We have lived and watched this breathtaking process from the prison; our hearts pounding against iron fences.

Kurds: The Muslim World’s “Unworthy” Victims, Ayesha Kazmi

“Almost 100 years since the failure of the Treaty of Sevres to allocate a Kurdistan for the Kurdish peoples, the absolute silence from the world, particularly the Muslim world, with regards to the treatment of ethnic Kurds in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and, most notably, Turkey, is bewildering.” A.Kazmi

PEN INTERNATIONAL, Writers in Prison Committee,

Hal f-yearl y CASELIST,
To 31 December 2011
PEN International, Writers in Prison Committee, 50/51 High Holborn, London WC1V 6ER – United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 020 74050338, Fax: + 44 020 74050339, e-mail: wipc@pen-international.org.uk – web site: www.pen-international.org.uk

Iran’s Achilles’ Heel, By EFRAIM HALEVY

THE public debate in America and Israel these days is focused obsessively on whether to attack Iran in order to halt its nuclear weapons ambitions; hardly any attention is being paid to how events in Syria could result in a strategic debacle for the Iranian government.

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