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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.
Crackdown in Turkey’s Kurdish south-east turns journalists into ‘terrorists’
Published by The Guardian 3 May 2016 Reporters for pro-Kurdish media are routinely detained, while those of pro-government outlets cannot always write what they want Refik Tekin, an award-winning photographer and video journalist, had been covering the curfew...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee visits prison on the island of Imralı (Turkey)
Published by CPT 2 May 2016 Strasbourg, 02.05.2016 – A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) recently carried out a two-day visit (28 and 29 April 2016) to the F-type...
Appeal to the Council of Europe for Peace in Turkey
This article was posted on ICN on April 30, 2016. Six members of the Imrali Peace Delegation visited Strasbourg from 18 - 22 April to call upon the Council of Europe to persuade its member Turkey to resume the peace talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of...
Republican Guard deploying to Qamishli: pro-Assad outlet
Published by Now. 25 April 2016 Kurdish troops have been locked in fierce fighting with pro-Assad militiamen in the border city. BEIRUT – The Syrian regime has allegedly deployed troops from its elite Republican Guard division to Qamishli, where Kurdish forces have...
Will Turkey bid farewell to secularism?
Published by Al-Monitor 27 April 2016 In the tranquility of Oxford, I was having a lunch with Eugene Rogan, a renowned historian and the director of the Middle East Centre of Oxford University. Last year, he had published a book, "The Fall of the Ottomans," which was...
Syrian Kurds expand diplomatic network in Europe
Published by Al-Monitor 22 April 2016 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long insisted that the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the People's Protection Units (YPG) are terror organizations that are more dangerous than the Islamic State (IS). If one...
Kurdish PKK warns Turkey of long fight for freedom
Published by BBC News 25 April 2016 The Kurdish rebel PKK movement has told the BBC that it is ready to intensify its fight against Turkey because Ankara is trying to make it surrender. Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Cemil Bayik said President Recep Tayyip...
Turkey’s Crackdown on Critics of Erdogan Snares Dutch Journalist
Published by The New York Times 24 April 2016 ISTANBUL — Ebru Umar, a Dutch journalist, wrote a column last week critical of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his government’s growing crackdown on freedom of expression. She later took to Twitter,...
Kurdish forces to keep areas taken from Syrian government forces truce
Published by Reuters 24 April 2016 Kurdish security forces will keep territory taken from pro-government forces during a rare three-day outbreak of violence in a city in northeastern Syria, a truce announced by Kurdish authorities on Sunday indicated. The fighting in...
