Iran Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bombarded a mountainous area in Mariwan on Saturday, targeting Kurdish rebel groups. The shelling caused a forest fire …
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Washington Kurdish Institute August 21, 2018 Part V of a series on Turkey’s future The Kurds are the largest non-Turkish ethnic group in Turkey, and, …
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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 …