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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.
Turkey’s Kurdish leader: We will struggle on in parliament ‘till the end’
Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, talks to the media before casting his ballot at a polling station during a general election in Istanbul, Nov. 1, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/Osman Orsal) Published by Al-Monitor 07 March 2016...
The Murder of a Newspaper
Published by P24 06 March 2016 The seizure of Zaman returns Turkey to the politics of revenge: Is the EU prepared to put expediency above principle? On Friday night, security forces stormed Zaman, the widest-circulating Turkish newspaper. Though many Turkish news...
Do not allow a new Rwanda, Vukovar and Srebrenica in Kurdistan
“You remember Srebrenica? Vukovar? and Rwanda?” Twenty years ago when Ratko Mladic’s army of murderers rounded up the men and boys in Srebrenica and systematically slaughtered them, the world did nothing. Nobody did anything about the thugs on the hills overlooking...
Turkey’s AKP forms plans for stronger presidency
Published by Reuters 4 March 2016 Changes to Turkey's constitution envisaged by the ruling AK Party could hand President Tayyip Erdogan new powers to draft legislation directly and pick ministers, senior officials said, moves opponents fear could entrench...
Published by Kurdish Question 1 March 2016 ANF - News Desk The International Criminal Court (ICC) has responded to the Hewler-based Kurdish Women’s Relations Office (Navenda Pêwendiyan a Jinên Kurd - REPAK) on their appeal for action against the war crimes committed...
Is Syrian regime about to retake Raqqa?
A group of men look at a large black Islamic State flag in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, Sept. 28, 2013. (photo by MOHAMMED ABDUL AZIZ/AFP/Getty Images) Published by Al-Monitor 29 February 2016 DAMASCUS, Syria — While most Syrian areas have been under a...
HDP STATEMENT: STOP THE MASSACRE IN SUR!
ATTACKS AND RESISTANCE AS THOUSANDS MARCH TO SUR TO BREAK SIEGE
People walk to Sur Published by Kurdish Question 2 March 2016 Thousands of people are marching to Amed's (Diyarbakir) Sur district from all corners of the city to break the siege and curfew by Turkish state forces. People marching from the Kayapınar, Bağlar and...
Diyarbakır Governorship ahead of Sur-March: No Entry Without Residence Document
Published by bianet 2 March 2016 Diyarbakır Governorship has announced that as of 12 a.m./p.m. today, Sur district has been closed off for every entrance except for persons residing in Sur. The Governorship in its written declaration has listed following reasons for...
