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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.
Global Empire – Turkey After The Referendum (video)
Published by Telesur on 18th of April 2017 Tariq Ali introduces a short film shot for The World Today. It was filmed a few weeks ago before Turkey’s Referendum which was passed only yesterday. The main opposition party and international election observers have...
Lack of equal opportunities, one-sided media coverage and limitations on fundamental freedoms created unlevel playing field in Turkey’s constitutional referendum, international observers say
First findings of the Organization for Security and Co-operationin Europe (OSCE) on the Turkish referendum of the 16th of April 2017 Published by OSCE on 17/4/17 ANKARA, 17 April 2017 – The 16 April constitutional referendum in Turkey was contested on an unlevel...
Iraqi Yazidis mark New Year, celebrated ‘Red Wednesday’
Published by Ekurd Daily on 19th of April 2017 LALISH, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— Thousands of Yazidis flocked to a shrine in Iraqi Kurdistan region to mark the New Year on Wednesday, in the minority’s biggest gathering since it was targeted for genocide by jihadists....
Kurdish political prisoners’ hunger strike ends – but the struggle continutes
Published by Morning Star on the 19th of April 2017 The situation for human rights in Turkey is dire, and on course to become much worse, says ROSA GILBERT YESTERDAY (18/4/17), a hunger strike in Turkish prisons by Kurdish political prisoners was called off after 62...
Hunger Strikes in Turkish Prisons: Information Note (HDP)
Hunger Strikes in Turkish Prisons: Information Note Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Prison Committee 6 April 2017 The hunger strike protests of political prisoners in Turkish penitentiary institutions have reached a critical point. The protest was initiated in Izmir...
What’s going on in Turkey’s prisons? – Mahmut Bozarslan
Published by Al-Monitor on April 3, 2017 Hunger strikes in Turkish prisons, joined briefly by the country’s top Kurdish politician, aim to draw attention to mounting allegations of ill-treatment and other violations of inmate rights since last year’s coup attempt....
Opposition HDP co-leader Demirtas and other prisoners end 35 day hunger strike
This article was posted on 1 April 2017 on KomNews. Opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-leader Selahattin Demirtas and other Kurdish prisoners ended a 35-day hunger strike in Edirne Prison after authorities promised to resolve issues relating to prison...
111 people sentenced to jail in main KCK case in Turkey’s Kurdish region
Published by Ekurd Daily on March 29, 2017 DIYARBAKIR-AMED, Turkey’s Kurdish region,— A total of 111 suspects in the main case into the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), an umbrella group of Kurdish group that includes the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), were given a...
URGENT DOSSIER HUNGER STRIKE BY POLITICAL PRISONERS IN TURKEY
Below this article you can find an urgent dossier of the KNK about Kurdish political prisoners, who are in Hunger strike since 43 days. Their health situation is under a big threat. Please read and circulate this dossier and get in contact with politicians, press and...
