Iran Ramin Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish man on death row in Iran who has gained international support to annul his death sentence, has been…
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Iran Amid multiple ongoing Turkish bombing operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraqi Kurdistan and Iranian incursions at the border against Kurdish…
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Washington Kurdish Institute August 13, 2018 Part IV of a series on Turkey’s future Introduction: Institutions are the pillars of society, holding up various interdependent…
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Iran A Kurdish professor (Caucher Birkar) of Cambridge University won the Fields Medal for Maths. The prize is awarded every four years and considered…
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Washington Kurdish Institute August 6, 2018 Friday, August 3rd marked the fourth anniversary of the Yazidi genocide. Most people, if they have heard of…
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Iran A Kurdish journalist named Bakhtiar Khosnham was sentenced 74 lashes for his coverage of the Kurdistan referendum for independence in September 2017. A…
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Washington Kurdish Institute July 31, 2018 Part III of a series on Turkey’s future The history of religion and its institutions in Turkey is seemingly cyclical.…
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Iran The Iran-based Kurdistan’s Free Life Party (PJAK), an offshoot of Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was responsible for the deaths of eleven Islamic…
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Iran Members of the Iranian intelligence service known as Ettela’at, arrested several Kurdish activists on a recent raid. The Kurdistan Human Rights Association reported…
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Washington Kurdish Institute July 17, 2018 Part I of a series on Turkey’s future In 2002, the former Mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan…