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News and events

Many Kurdish outlets belong to a party or a state. Each story here links several outlets, labelled by owner, beside the calendar of Kurdish days.

01How news is chosen

  • At least two outlets for every story
  • Each outlet carries its label: public, independent, party-affiliated or state-affiliated
  • Headlines and links only; readers go to the outlet for the full text
  • A public log records every correction
  • 01

    Media register

    A register of outlets, each labelled by ownership.

    In preparation

  • 02

    Verification

    How a story is checked across several outlets, varieties and languages.

    In preparation

  • 03

    Corrections

    Every correction to the news site, logged in public with its date.

    In preparation

At a glance

Programmes by status
  • In preparation
  1. News and events3

Sources KCO content, counted at each build.

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Next in the calendar

  1. NewrozMarch 21
  2. Kurdish Journalism DayApril 22
  3. Kurdish Language DayMay 15
  4. Kurdistan Flag DayDecember 17
  5. Republic of MahabadJanuary 22
  6. End of the Kobanî siegeJanuary 26
  7. Halabja remembranceMarch 16
  8. Anfal remembranceApril 14
  9. Yazidi genocide remembranceAugust 3
  10. Dersim remembrance1937 to 1938 (communities mark different dates)
  11. Çarşema Sor (Red Wednesday)first Wednesday of April in the Julian-based Yazidi calendar
  12. Cejna ÊzîdDecember (variable)
  13. Eid al-Fitr (Cejna Remezanê)1 Shawwal
  14. Eid al-Adha (Cejna Qurbanê)10 Dhu al-Hijjah

Alerts and disasters in the home region

Open data, register-gated: each list shows items only once the owner approves its source.

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Layers

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LayerSourceLicenceStatus
Current disastersReliefWeb disasters APIMetadata reusable with credit; each linked report under its own source’s terms (to verify)Awaiting licence review

02Convenings

Meetings, classes, clinics and gatherings, once a Chapter confirms them.

No convenings are announced yet.

All convenings

03Calendar

  • March 21 · Festival

    Newroz

    Kurdish new year and national day: the legend of Kawa the blacksmith and hillside bonfires.

    Newroz / نەورۆز

  • April 22 · Civic

    Kurdish Journalism Day

    Anniversary of the first Kurdish newspaper, Kurdistan, Cairo, 1898.

    Roja Rojnamegeriya Kurdî

  • May 15 · Cultural

    Kurdish Language Day

    Anniversary of the journal Hawar, 1932.

    Roja Zimanê Kurdî

  • December 17 · Civic

    Kurdistan Flag Day

    Observed in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

    ڕۆژی ئاڵای کوردستان

  • January 22 · Remembrance

    Republic of Mahabad

    Proclamation of the Republic of Mahabad, 1946.

    کۆماری مەهاباد

  • January 26 · Remembrance

    End of the Kobanî siege

    End of the siege of Kobanî, 2015.

    Rizgariya Kobanî

  • March 16 · Remembrance

    Halabja remembrance

    Chemical weapons attack on Halabja, 16 March 1988.

    هەڵەبجە

  • April 14 · Remembrance

    Anfal remembrance

    Remembrance of the Anfal campaign, observed in the Kurdistan Region.

    ئەنفال

  • August 3 · Remembrance

    Yazidi genocide remembrance

    Attack on Shingal (Sinjar) by ISIL, 3 August 2014; found a genocide by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (2016).

    Fermana Şengalê

  • Date varies · Remembrance

    Dersim remembrance

    Killings and deportations in Dersim, 1937 to 1938, as documented by historians.

    Dersim

  • Date varies · Religious

    Çarşema Sor (Red Wednesday)

    Yazidi new year.

    Çarşema Sor

  • Date varies · Religious

    Cejna Êzîd

    Yazidi feast after a three-day fast.

    Cejna Êzîd

  • Date varies · Religious

    Eid al-Fitr (Cejna Remezanê)

    End of the fast of Ramadan.

  • Date varies · Religious

    Eid al-Adha (Cejna Qurbanê)

    Feast of the Sacrifice at the close of the Hajj.

04What this platform does

Many Kurdish outlets belong to a party or a state. Beside labelled outlets, this platform links official announcements of governments and international bodies, never commentary.

  • Official announcements

    Releases of governments and international bodies, linked to the original.

    How to use it

    1. Choose a country in the directory.
    2. Open its government announcements.
    3. Read the release on the official site.

  • Media register

    Each outlet carries its label: public, independent, party-affiliated or state-affiliated.

    How to use it

    1. Read the labels.
    2. Compare at least two outlets.
    3. Report a label you think is wrong.

  • Verification

    How a story is checked before it is listed.

    How to use it

    1. Read the method.
    2. Check a claim against its source.
    3. Send a claim that needs checking.

  • Convenings

    Meetings and gatherings of Chapters and Community Cells, once confirmed.

    How to use it

    1. Open the convenings.
    2. Filter by kind and format.
    3. Register as the organiser asks.

  • Corrections

    A public log records every correction.

    How to use it

    1. Open the corrections log.
    2. Report an error with its source.
    3. Follow the correction.

05Find your country

Official sources of announcements in each country: government news, parliaments, statistics releases and official alerts.

The directory

Every country

06Where to start

The steps most people need, in order. Each country page fills them with that country’s official bodies.

  1. Go to the original

    Government announcements are published on official sites.

    Government announcements · Government portal

  2. Follow parliaments

    Parliaments publish debates, votes and laws.

    Parliament

  3. Check the numbers

    Statistics offices date every release.

    Statistics

    Learn Media and information literacy

  4. Follow official alerts

    Warning systems carry alerts in an emergency.

    Official alerts

  5. Read more than one outlet

    Compare outlets with different owners before you share.

    Learn Journalism

07Official updates

From official sources only, never commentary. Each source shows items once it clears licence review.

Government announcements

Awaiting licence review The latest official items appear here once the source’s licence is approved.

Source: United Nations (UN News)

International bodies

Awaiting licence review The latest official items appear here once the source’s licence is approved.

Source: United Nations (UN News)

08Take part

  • 01

    Share an announcement

    Share an official release with its link. A steward checks it first.

  • 02

    Report an error

    Every correction goes in the public log.

  • 03

    Propose a convening

    Chapters and Community Cells propose convenings.

  • 04

    Study media literacy

    Take the Academy’s media literacy courses.

How to take part · Sources and method

Cite this page
APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). News and events. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/news/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “News and Events.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/news/.

BibTeX
@misc{kco2026_news_home,
	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {News and events},
	url = {https://kurds.global/news/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/news/},
}

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09Learn in the Academy

Courses and disciplines of the Academy on the subject of this page.

Courses

Disciplines

A completion record shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

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10Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Kurdish Social Media Opinions

    Rofoo, Fanar, Shareef, Shareef M., Fattah, Polla · 2025 · Mendeley Data

    DatasetOpenAlexDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY

  2. Mining Mental Health Signals: A Comparative Study of Four Machine Learning Methods for Depression Detection from Social Media Posts in Sorani Kurdish

    Idrees Mohammed, Hossein Hassani · 2025 · arXiv

    PreprintarXivOpen access

  3. Kurdish (Kurmanji) News Articles

    Hawarnews, ANF, Rojnews et al. · 2022 · Kaggle

    DatasetDataCite

  4. The AKP and the Kurdish News Media

    Natalie Martin · 2020 · The Securitisation of News in Turkey

    ChapterCrossref

  5. Medical dataset classification for Kurdish short text over social media

    Ari M. Saeed, Shnya R. Hussein, Chro M. Ali et al. · 2022 · Data in Brief

    OtherOpenAlexarXivOpen accessCC-BY

  6. Navigating the Path to Europe: How Social Media Shapes Irregular Migration Decisions Among Kurdish Youth

    Rawezh Kamran Ahmad*1, Ismail Haji Zalmi1, Neaz Naif Mustafa2, Mohammed Satar Saeed3, Hataw Hussein1 · 2025 · International Journal of Scientific Research and Technology

    ArticleZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  7. Kurdish Diaspora in Japan: Navigating Kurdish Identity and Activism on Social Media

    Sohrab Ahmadian · 2024 · Springer Nature Singapore

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  8. The Role of Female Journalists in the Kurdish media – the Historical Research about the Journalist’s Female of Erbil

    Saman Jalal Mawlood · 2022 · Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  9. Artificial Intelligence and its role in increasing the viewership of news programs on Kurdish television channels Artificial Intelligence and its role in increasing the viewership of news programs on Kurdish television channels

    nabaz ahmad, Ebtisam · 2026 · Mitanni Journal of Humanitarian Sciences

    ArticleCrossref

  10. Science-based truth as news: Knowledge production and media in Iraqi Kurdistan

    Andrea Fischer-Tahir · 2014 · Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  11. The role of Kurdish media in the resistance against Turkification: a case study of an online Kurdish news platform

    Bermal Aydın · 2019 · Turkish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  12. Role of the Public Relations Service in Shaping the Media Content Strategy of the Kurdish Media Corporation "Rudaw"

    Kaka Mohammed Omer Kaka · 2020 · Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

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