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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.

Call to Observe the Hearing of Ms. Figen Yüksekdağ

Dear Friends, HDP Co-Chair Ms Figen Yüksekdağ was arrested on 4 November 2016 along with Co-Chair Mr. Demirtaş and 8 other HDP deputies. The second hearing of Ms. Yuksekdag’s case, for which she is under pre-trial detention in Kandira F Type Prison, will be held on 18...

KRG doubles down on independence vote after Baghdad meeting

This article was published on Al-Monitor on 23 August 2017. Written by Omar Sattar. The Kurdish delegation's visit to the Iraqi capital Aug. 14 failed to change the declared stances on the Kurdistan region independence referendum scheduled for Sept. 25, but did set...

Kobanê, two years after Daesh

Published on Kedistan on 13 July 2017. This article is based on a series of interviews done in Kobanê in January 2017. The author, Margot Cassiers, is a staff member at the Kurdish Institute in Brussels (Belgium). We enter the city at night, but at a time when no...

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