Washington Kurdish Institute May 18, 2018 On April 18, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to call for snap parliamentary and presidential elections, which…
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Iran After more than three weeks of demonstrations by the Kurdish businessmen and workers in several cities, the Iranian regime officials vowed to reopen…
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Iran After the court’s decision to sentence a Kurdish man, Ramin Panahi, to death, the Iranian regime temporarily suspended his execution. On May 1,…
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Iran The demonstrations in the Kurdish cities in Iran continued for a third week against the closure of a border crossing between Iraqi Kurdistan…
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Iran Kurdish businessmen and store owners continued their strikes and demonstrations against the Iranian government for closing the border crossing between Iraqi Kurdistan and…
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Iran Iran’s Supreme Court has sentenced to death Ramin Hossein Panahi, a member of a Kurdish opposition party. Last June, Panahi was captured, unarmed,…
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The Kurdistan Regional Government’s referendum on independence from Iraq did not go as planned. The disputed territory of Kirkuk was at the center of…
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Iran The Iranian regime’s border guards shot four Kurdish citizens from Iraqi Kurdistan. The shooting took place on the border near Kalar district and…
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The Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI) has movd to a new location: 700 12th Street NW, Suite 700, Washington D.C. 20005 If you have any…
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Washington Kurdish Institute March 27, 2018 Since the Iraqi security forces and their Iranian-backed militias forcibly took control of Kirkuk Province on October 16,…