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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.
Iranian Kurdish political prisoner Saman Naseem is alive: Human Rights
Iran: Whereabouts of juvenile offender on death row emerge five months after scheduled execution Published by Amnesty International, July 13, 2015 An Iranian juvenile offender whose fate and whereabouts had been unknown since he was due to be executed in February was...
Syrian Kurds retake Ain Issa town near Islamic State’s capital Raqqa
Published by Ekurd Daily, July 9, 2015 BEIRUT,— Kurdish forces in Syrian Kurdistan have retaken the town of Ain Issa located near the Islamic State’s de facto Syrian capital, Raqqa, from the IS militants, the Kurds and a monitor group said. Kurdish forces had seized...
As Iraq splinters, Kurds’ own unity put to test – Isabel Coles
Published by Reuters, July 9, 2015 Erbil - Their common enemy is Islamic State, but Iraq's Kurds are preoccupied by a struggle within their autonomous region, where political parties are jousting over the presidency and their supporters are invoking an old civil war....
Turkey’s Davutoglu expects start of coalition talks next week
Published by Ekurd Daily, July 9, 2015 ANKARA,— Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said he expected to receive a mandate on Thursday to form a new government and to start coalition talks next week, more than a month after an election deprived his AK Party of a...
Erdogan looks for military victory to avenge electoral defeat – Fehim Taştekin
Published by Al Monitor, July 2, 2015 Newspapers are overflowing with scenarios that send Turkey into Syria after the expulsion of the Islamic State (IS) from Tell Abyad by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG). A flurry of speculation about operational plans...
No choice for Turkey but to accept a Syrian Kurdistan – Ranj Alaaldin
Turkey will soon have to contend with a Western-backed nation-building exercise in Syrian Kurdistan. Published by Al Jazeera, 2 July 2015 For the last three years of the four-year Syrian conflict, Turkey has had to contend with the increasing strength of the...
New Human Rights Watch report on Kobanê: Deliberate Killing of Civilians by ISIS
Published by Human Rights Watch, July 3, 2015 New York - Armed militants believed to be members of Islamic State, also known as ISIS, deliberately targeted people they knew were civilians in a June 25, 2015, attack in and around the northern Syrian city of Kobani....
On the International Mobilisation to Rebuild Kobanê CONFERENCE
Final declaration 01 July 2015 hosted by the European Parliament On the 15th of September, 2014, Da'esh launched a major offensive against the Kurdish Canton of Kobanê in Syria. The Kurdish people, led by the Kurdish defence forces (YPG and YPJ), staged a large...
Kobani conference in EU Parliament:
Isis criminals and its supporter states have to be sent to the international court for crimes against humanity. Turkey should open its border for humanitarian aid corridor to Kurds. ISIS and its supporters to be sent to court for crimes by Roni Alasor Brussels, 1 July...
