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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.
Intense atmosphere in Tokat after racist attack on Kurdish workers
Intense atmosphere in Tokat after racist attack on Kurdish workers is continuing. Some Kurdish construction workers were exposed to racist attack of a nationalist group in the late night in Tokat, a province in the Black Sea Region.
Siirt mayor given two years, one month over PKK propaganda
Siirt Mayor Selim Sadak from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has been sentenced to two years and one month in prison on two separate charges, spreading propaganda for the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and for praising jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.
La Turquie se dirigerait-elle vers le fascisme? Maxime-Azadi
Avec l'encouragement et soutien actif de l'Occident, le gouvernement AKP du premier ministre Recep Tayyip Erdogan a transformé la Turquie en une vaste prison ouverte.
German State criminalises the Kurdish community
BERLIN, — A demonstration against the blacklisting of PKK on 26th November was banned. A group of a hundred police raided Kurdish organization during memorial ceremony
Turkey Officially Apologizes for 1930s Mass Killing of Kurds, Dorian Jones
Turkey's prime minister has for the first time officially apologized for the mass killing of Kurds in an uprising 80 years ago. The statement is seen by some as groundbreaking and the first step in the country facing up to its difficult past, but others see it as more to do with politics.
EUTCC APPEALS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF MR ABDULLA ÖCALAN’S LAWYERS
A fresh example of crackdown on people seeking democracy in Turkey occurred when the lawyers representing imprisoned Kurdish leader Mr. Abdullah Öcalan were detained by Turkish authorities November 22. There are reports of some 100 people taken into custody.
International Initiative condemned attacks on lawyers of Ocalan
COLOGNE, Germany, — In a written statement the International Initiative condemned the attack and arrest of the lawyers of Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish national leader incarcerated in Imrali Prison.
Interview with Salih Muhammad, president of PYD
We are fighting for Democratic Autonomy for Kurds in Syria, PYD
Human Rights Association staged its 80th sit in for disappeared people
Lawyer Celebi insists government should answer appropriately to PKK ceasefire
