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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.
DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY PARTY
DOCUMENT OF POLITICAL STANCE ON TURKEY'S DEMOCRATIZATION AND SOLUTION TO THE KURDISH PROBLEM
DTP’s Türk slams prison sentence demand for child protesters
Ahmet Türk, the leader of the Democratic Society Party (DTP), Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party, has lashed out at a prosecutor who demanded 23 years in prison for elementary school students participating in illegal demonstrations.
Culture of mass lynchings on the rise across Turkey
Nobody knows what 27-year-old Selahattin Cirit was thinking when he was shot in the leg in the Istanbul neighborhood of Okmeydani last Wednesday. He was originally from Bingöl and working as a motorbike courier in a market in Okmeydani. Was Cirit aware of the fact that some people in the neighborhood had come to believe he was a child molester?
Abdulla Ocalan, Imrali Island: War and peace in Kurdistan.
Perspectives for a political solution of the Kurdish Question
Enlargement Strategy and Progress Reports 2008
On 5 November 2008 the Commission adopted its annual strategy document explaining its policy on EU enlargement.
DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY PARTY
DOCUMENT OF POLITICAL STANCE ON TURKEY’S DEMOCRATIZATION AND SOLUTION TO THE KURDISH PROBLEM
Enough With This Turkey!
On the occasion of the Dersim Conference held at European Parliament on November 13, 2008, five Brussels organisations belonging to different communities coming out from Turkey have issued the following joint declaration:
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP – NEW REPORT
Turkey and Iraqi Kurds: Conflict or Cooperation?
Istanbul/Brussels, 13 November 2008:
EU looking positively for Armenia’s progress
President of the European Commission, José Manuel BARROSO, and President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh SARGSYAN, highlighted Armenia's progress in the implementation of the ENP Action Plan and agreed that there is still room for further progress.
