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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.
To the Attention of Press and Public “DERSIM ’38 CONFERANCE”
Call to the Dersim ’38 Conference at the European Parliament
November 13, 2008, in Brussels
We will not forget or let forget the Dersim genocide!!!
Association of Reconstruction of Dersim Management Committee
Female fighters: We won’t stand for male dominance
By Arwa Damon
CNN
PKK ATTACK IN DIYARBAKIR DEEPENS PUBLIC DOUBTS ABOUT TURKEY’S COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY
"…there appear to be a growing number who are beginning to wonder whether an increased dosage of violence is really the cure to the problem…"
http://jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2373437
By Gareth Jenkins
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Turkey discusses measures to fight rebels
The Associated Press
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Minority Rights in Iraq Under Threat After Removal of Election Provision
The religious and ethnic minorities' rights in the new Iraq are under constant threat, the most obvious being the Parliament's removal of Article 50 from the Provincial Elections bill.
TURKISH AND KURDISH YOUTHS CLASH IN WESTERN TURKEY
By Gareth Jenkins
Published by The JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Kurdish groups call for aid for prisoners
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 2 (UPI) — In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 15 activist groups called for intervention to aid Kurdish prisoners on a hunger strike in Iranian prisons.
Syria: Kurdish human rights worker is threatened with life imprisonment
Syria: Absurd charges made against Mashal Tamo
SOCIETY FOR THREATENED PEOPLES, PRESS RELEASE Göttingen, 22.09.2008
Turkish singer defiant in court
A popular Turkish singer has defended public statements that Turkey's long conflict with Kurdish rebels needs a solution – not more deaths.
