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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.
Nadia Murad slams Iraqi Kurdistan government over YAZDA closure
Published by Ekurd Daily on 4/1/2017 HEWLÊR-Erbil, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— Kurdish Yazidi activist and survivor of enslavement by the Islamic State group Nadia Murad has criticized Iraqi Kurdistan government for closing YAZDA group office in Duhok city. Murad called...
Demirtaş: We must carry out a common struggle for social peace
Published by Kurdishinfo on 6/1/2016 Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, jailed in Edirne Prison, has sent a message on the ISIS massacre in Ortaköy, Istanbul during the first hours of the new year, which resulted in the death of 39 people of...
Bodies of 58 people killed in Nusaybin still not given to families
Published by Kurdishinfo on 2/1/2016 Bodies of 58 people killed in Mardin’s Nusaybin district are yet to be given to their families despite the fact that 9 months have passed since the curfew that was declared by the governorate in the district on March 14, 2016....
Invitation for the Long March: Freedom for Öcalan – Justice for Kurdistan
Invitation for the Long March Freedom for Öcalan - Justice for Kurdistan (1st to 11th February 2017) Dear Friends and Comrades, We take this opportunity to thank you again for the great solidarity, contribution, and support you have shown and continue to provide for...
An Alliance to Worry the West – Cengiz Candar
Published by The New York Times on December 23, 2016 ISTANBUL — When a Turkish police officer assassinated Andrey G. Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, on Monday, it felt for a moment as if the whole world shook. The killing took place at a time of global...
Turkey launches renewed attack against Syrian Kurds, bombs YPG positions near Kobane
Published by ARA News on 19 December 2016 Kobane – Turkey’s military targeted a headquarters of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) near the city of Kobane in northern Syria, military sources reported on Sunday. “The Turkish artillery bombed the YPG-held...
Kurdish HDP party accuses Turkish authorities of encouraging attacks on its offices
Published by Ekurd Daily on December 18, 2016 ANKARA ,— Turkish officials encouraged attacks on offices of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) across the country, according to official party’s statement. The HDP premises in several Turkish cities have been...
Ömer Güney, culprit of the murder of three Kurdish woman in Paris on 9 January, 2013, has died.
Published by ANF on Saturday, December 17, 2016 It is reported that Ömer Güney, the sole suspect in the assassination of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez in French capital Paris on 9 January, 2013, has died. French authorities have informed Cansız, Doğan...
Where is Müjgan Ekin?
On the 24th of October 2016, Müjgan Ekin, a Kurdish presenter for Özgür Gün TV, disappeared. She was likely arrested by Turkish police officers in Ankara, but she was never officially detained and since then all traces of her are missing. Müjgan is 29 years old and a...
