The Kurdish Institute of Brussels was established in 1978, and was founded by 7 Kurds in collaboration with several Flemish and Wallonian friends.
Goals
Since our creation we tried to be a center for cultural and social development of our community here and in our homeland. - At the same time we were also a center for objective dispersion of information in order try to advance the democratic progress.
Some examples of our concrete projects
Formation courses for adults - French, Dutch and Kurdish language courses- Conferences on language, literature, culture, the national question, human rights, democracy and the history of the Kurdish people. - Realization of researches about the education of adults, written and oral literature. - Publications concerning the Kurdish language, history, national question and the Diaspora.
A recognized and respected organization
The Kurdish Institute of Brussels is recognized by both ministries of Culture. In the Flemish part we are recognized by the service of Peoples Development and in the Wallonian region we are recognized by Permanent Education. We are also recognized by the region of the city of Brussels.
We collaborate with
Research units of universities and high schools - Cultural and community canter - Formation canter, organizations of formation, peace organizations, human rights organizations and NGO's (developments projects).
Political goals?
Our activities are organized for the homeland, and in Belgium.
We try to point the attention to the authorities about the problems between the local people and the immigrants.
In our homeland we try to ask attention for the lack of democracy, the violations of the Human Rights and the national oppression of the Kurds.
In order to achieve this goal we work together with the NGO's in our homeland: e.g. Human Rights organizations, cultural canters, education networks and youth organizations.
Concerning Turkey we are very pleased that they are now a candidate member of the European Union. But we are fed up with all the promises that have been made. That's why we ask strongly the guarantee of following points and this together with a lot of International NGO's:
changing of the State of Law of 1978 (written by the militaries) - abolition of the National Security Council
Freedom for all political prisoners and Kurdish deputies.
the allowance of all political parties, also the parties of the Kurdish people and national minorities.
The abolition of all repressive articles in the penalty law and the abolition of the death penalty.
the allowance of education and press in the Kurdish language