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Stay InformedQuite 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.
Turkish and Kurdish Nationalisms and Political Islam in Turkey
Agenda
Police tear gas Kurds amid Turkey PM’s tour
From Journalist Andrew Finkel
Turkey: Governor threatens to deprive demonstrators and their families of health care
Amnesty International
29 October 2008
Call to a conference at the European Parliament
Dersim 1937-1938: 70 Years After
Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution in the media
HASSO H.OSMAN
The subject of the Article 140 of Iraqi constitution is still one of the most important topics on the Iraqi media in general and on the Kurdish media in particular, from many points of view the Article has a decided rule in the success or failure of American's policy in Iraq, likewise in the success of Al-Maliki government, others go far than that and see the success of the constitution in the implementing of this Article especially it has been so contradicted.
Hunger-strike in Iranian prisons rich to border of death
Several hundreds of Kurdish political activists have been on hunger strike in Iranian prisons in the last 47 days to protest against the political repression of the fundamental rights of Kurds in Iran. But the UN, US, and EU is so long, silent…
02/10/2008, Belgian Senate will host a Turkish-Kurdish conference
A conference "State of the advancement of the adhesion process of Turkey to the EU" and the Kurdish question in Turkey will be held in the Belgian Senate on the 2nd October where the participants will discus the new development in Turkey.
28/10/2008, We call upon you to show solidarity with the Kurds
Subject: Education in Kurdish in Turkey.
Increased human rights violations against the Kurdish people in Iran
By KDP-Iran