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12:12 20/2/2015		Kurdish film festival in Copenhagen The 4th Copenhagen Kurdish Film Festival has started. The title of this year’s festival is “Migration, Fleeing, Hopes and Dreams”.
13:14 30/1/2015		Diyarbakır to host 'International Kurdistan Art Days' Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality has organised International Kurdistan Art Days jointly with the Kayapınar, Bağlar, Sur and Yenişehir district municipalities in support of Rojava. Gathering together under the slogan “Rojava is the perspective for freedom and equality”, artists from all over the world will exhibit their works in various disciplines.
11:17 28/1/2015		'Art and music have a huge impact on success of Rojava revolution' Delîl Mîrsaz, is a Kurdish folk singer, and a well-known musician who has been producing traditional Kurdish music for many years. At the same time as producing traditional Kurdish music, Delîl was also carrying his weapon in the fight against ISIS terrorists in Rojava.
10:22 15/1/2015		First queer film festival to kick off for 4th time in Ankara Pink Life QueerFest will kick off tomorrow in Ankara for the 4th time. Having started its journey in 2011, the first and only queer film festival in Turkey will also have a 3-day-long screening in Istanbul this year in collaboration with Baska Sinema.
10:59 14/1/2015		Celebrations of Serê Salê create colourful scene Children being educated by the Social Services department of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality celebrated 'Serê Salê' (New Year) at the evening hours of Tuesday.
10:44 13/1/2015		Education in Rojava: 'academy and pluralistic' versus 'university and monism' On one hand the Cantons of Rojava (Kobanê, Efrîn and Cizîrê) continue to resist against the brutal Daesh, on the other hand, they try to construct a social life.
13:28 12/1/2015		War in Kobanê no obstacle to education in mother tongue! As the historic resistance of the YPG/YPJ fighters continues against the ISIS gangs in Kobanê, children and women’s need for mother tongue education has not been forgotten. Despite the conditions of conflict Kurdish education is being provided by voluntary teachers.
11:14 15/12/2014		TZP completes another training session for 20 people in Amûdê 20 Kurdish language learners in Amûdê city of Cizîre Canton completed a training session and learned their native language.
15:47 10/12/2014		TZP opens a new center in Qamişlo TZP (Language and Education Movement) in Qamişlo opened a center in the Enteriye province of the city.
13:24 03/12/2014		Arabic and Turkish education to children from Kobanê, but not mother tongue Children from Kobanê staying in the state-run AFAD tent city in the old gendarme station are being taught Arabic instead of Kurdish, their mother tongue. People from Kobanê want their children to be taught Kurdish, saying: “in Arabic they are only being given Koranic lessons. They are not being taught to read and write. We don’t know who is running the school.”
11:01 29/11/2014		Refusal of imprimatur to 2 Kurdish authors by ministy! Ministry of Intelligence in Sine and Kirmaşan (Kermanshah) refused to grant permission to two Kurdish author to print and publish their books.
13:43 22/11/2014		Female teachers in Efrîn pioneering education in mother tongue Women in Cindirês and Mabata towns of Efrîn played a significant role in teaching Kurdish and offering education to children in SZK (Language Institution of West Kurdistan). Hundreds of female teachers continuously give lectures.
10:23 06/11/2014		Kurdish artists use colour to support local fighters against men in black More than 30 artists who showed their work in a recent exhibition at Dohuk’s Centre for Graphic Art in northern Iraq had one aim: to contribute to the fight against the extremist group, the Islamic State.
13:04 04/11/2014		Kurdish dictionary available on smart phonesü, A joint project initiated by KURDÎ-DER and TMMOB created a Kurdish technical term dictionary into cell phones.
11:48 03/11/2014		UNESCO adds Hewlêr Citadel to World Heritage Sites The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is expected to officially recognize Hewlêr (Erbil) Citadel as a World Heritage Site in a special ceremony at the citadel.
11:34 01/11/2014		Cultural exhibition in Qamishlo A cultural exhibition has been opened in Qamishlo city of West Kurdistan.
12:38 31/10/2014		Students in Tirbespiyê receive 4 thousand books from TZP Movement of Language and Education (TZP) distributed 4 thousands books to primary schools in Tirbespiyê city of Cizîre Canton, Rojava.
11:52 30/10/2014		Book campaign for Mesopotamia Academy A group of students from North and East Kurdistan, Turkey and European countries have launched a book campaing for Mesopotamia Academy of Social Sciences established on 2nd September in Qamişlo city of Rojava (West Kurdistan).
12:27 29/10/2014		Rojava revolution to be saluted with art on November 1 The November 1 has been declared as "World Kobanê Day" upon the call of 130 international intellectuals, authors, politicians and human rights defenders to support the resistance being exhibited against the ISIS gangs.
14:46 22/10/2014		Kardeş Türküler releases video to support Kobanê Kardeş Türküler, a music band that covers songs from Anatolia, Thrace and Mesapotamia in their original language, released a video to support a corridor to Kobanê.