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Ifimes Delegation Visits Iraqi Kurdistan
 Press Release/ The delegation of the IFIMES International Institute comprising the Institute's directors Bakhtyar Aljaf and Zijad Bećirović as well as member of the Institute's Council and the U. S. Ambassador Victor Jackovich has just returned... | » Read More... |
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Dersim 1937-1938: 70 Years After
 Call to a conference at the European Parliament / On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Dersim Genocide, the Association for Reconstruction of Dersim organizes a conference on November 13, 2008, 3pm, at the European... | » Read More... |
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Turkish and Kurdish youths clash in western Turkey
 By Gareth Jenkins / On September 30 simmering ethnic tensions between Turks and Kurds in the town of Altinova in the western province of Balikesir erupted into violence as stores, automobiles, homes, and workplaces belonging to ethnic Kurds were attacked... | » Read More... |
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Why can't we beat the PKK?
 EMRE USLU & ÖNDER AYTAÇ*/ The civilian and military authorities have finally admitted that state policies so far have failed to prevent people from joining the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Recently Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan... | » Read More... |
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A state called Kurdistan?
 David Romano/(*) By comparison with the rest of Iraq, the country's Kurdish region has thrived since Saddam's overthrow in 2003. But a viable independent state could realistically still be decades awa. One of Iraq's worst kept secrets... | » Read More... |
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East Kurdistan: Eight Activists Sentenced to Death
 According to reports from the "Campaign to stop the death penalty in Kurdistan", so far 8 political activists have been sentenced to death in the Sanandaj district –West of Iran. This includes Habibollah Latifi a student from the law faculty of Sanandaj University... | » Read More... |
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Iraq: Mass grave discovered with 500 dead
 Society for Threatened Peoples/ The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) has been informed that a new mass grave with 500 dead has been discovered in Iraq. It is not far from Tallafa, about 60 km west of Mossul. The first investigations have shown that the victims... | » Read More... |
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| The way I see it: Bahman GhobadiKurdish General: We are ready to defend KurdistanArticle 140 for Kurds has reached its favorable outcome ...Kurdistan PM urges US to rein in Turkish militaryU.S. Pentagon giving Turkey intelligence on Kurdish PKK rebelsSyria breaks up Kurdish protest outside courtEU concerned over Turkish air strikes in KurdistanIraq FM Zebari: Turkish air strike is unacceptableKurdistan defends right to signed oil dealsTerrorist freed in Germany is welcomed by TehranKurdish Yazidis look to Free KurdistanUS-Turkey sign radar contract worth $730 MillionDelegation of Free Kurdistan to head to IranResolutions of the Fourth International Conference on the EU, Turkey and the KurdsKurdistan opened Iraq’s largest and best equipped cardiac care hospital | | Corruption in Iraqi KurdistanASEN- The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and NationalismKurds' power share row with Iraqi governmentBarzani refused to meet Rice as a sign of protestKurdish Director, Stuck Between Iraq and IranKurdistan Government agree to postpone vote on Kurdish City of KirkukKurd: The Forbidden Word in TurkeyIraq parliament condemns 'cruel' Turkish air strikes in KurdistanTurkey bombs Kurds in Iraq, claim U.S. OKSyria arrests Kurdish leaders and personalitiesKurds want long term US presence in KurdistanKurdish Jews Cautiously Return to their Homeland, KurdistanPKK released an official declaration for negotiation with Turkey“Honour killings” persist in Kurdistan'Let's pray Apo doesn't die' (!) |
A bright day and a brighter future is on the way for the Kurdish Community in Atlanta, GA USA. Kurdish Cultural Center is now officially established in Atlanta, GA. The grand opening day for the public will be on Saturday, January 24th 2009. The official...
‘Nationalist’ reconstructions in the light of disappearing borders - Ferhat Kentel. Banditry to disloyalty: Turkish nationalisms and the Kurdish question Mesut Yeğen. The search for...
Dr Ali KILIC/ On morning Sunday November 2, 2008 prior to a Kurdish protest on parliament in Damascus, this was schedueled by the Kurdish Democratic Front in Syria and codrinating Committee and Higher Committee for the Kurdish Democratic Alliance in Syria...
The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) welcomes in the spirit of religious diversity and tolerance the construction of places of prayer for all faiths in our country. It is worth noting that the new mosque in Duisburg falls under the jurisdiction of the Islamist society...
Poems in Kurdi & Angalisi written By: Steve Tataii - 24 October 2008 - In "Dubare" episode of ROJ TV at exactly 12:30 pm Hawaii Pacific Time I watched I watched what they have done to our fallen Kurdistani brother I cried But...
By Emrullah Uslu/ The Village Guard system is one of the key aspects of Turkish security polices in the nation’s ethnic-Kurdish southeast. In response to the growing power of the Kurdistan Workers Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan - PKK), the state has resorted...
Ahmet Davutoglu, the chief foreign policy aide to Turkey's prime minister, says he fears recent optimism on Iraq in the United States overlooks significant, dangerous problems which remain unresolved. In a meeting in Ankara with CFR.org and other...
By Ma'ad Fayad / Arbil, Asharq Al-Awsat- Masrur Barzani, Chief of the Kurdistan Region Protection Agency gives his first ever interview to Asharq Al-Awsat. The following is the...
"..As we have learnt, Turkey is planning to apply for a non permanent elected membership in the UN Security Council. For this reason Turkey is leading an intensive lobbying, especially in the United States and in the EU member...
Kurdish leaders have expanded their authority over a roughly 300-mile-long swath of territory beyond the borders of their autonomous region in northern Iraq, stationing thousands of soldiers in ethnically mixed areas in what...
Steve Tataii/"..Kirkuk, and all of her surrounding Kurdish cities, towns, and villages, as well as all other similarly situated left out Kurdish cities, towns, and villages from the callous way of drawing 36 parallel, should have already been...
Bianet interviews figures of different opinion regarding Kurdish problem on the 24th year of PKK's declaration of war. CHP deputy Serter advises sticking to the same method, while writer Orhan Miroğlu urges for recognition of Kursih identity,...
This highly regarded 69-year-old man is "the Blonde Professor" of Turkey's Kurds, since -- as Martin van Bruinessen of Utrecht University has very appropriately said -- for many years he was the only non-Kurdish person in Turkey to speak out loud and clear...
Kurdish rebels have claimed responsibility for an explosion that sparked a fire, disrupting oil flow on the Turkish section of a pipeline that is a major supplier of oil to the West.The Kurdish news agency Firat Thursday said the Kurdistan...
Iran’s government is failing in its duty to prevent discrimination and human rights abuses against its Kurdish citizens, particularly women, said Amnesty International in a new report published today. The organization...
Dr Kim Howells, Britain's Foreign Office Minsiter for the Middle East, on Tuesday joined fellow members of the British parliament and the Kurdistan Regional Government's minister for genocide affairs in commemorating the 20th anniversary of the chemical attack on...
The Speaker of the Kurdistan Region Parliament, Adnan Mufti, during his visit to Denmark met separately with representatives of several Iraqi and Kurdish parties including PUK, KDP, KCP, SIIC, ICP, INC, and the Iraqi community in Denmark.Mufti...
Concerning the recent aggression of Turkish army into Iraqi Kurdistan Region, a spokesman from the office of Kurdistan region president issued a statement which bellow is a full text: "On days of 21th and 22th February, 2008, Kurdistan...
Within the first three months of 2008, 136 Kurds have been killed, imprisoned, or disappeared in Iranian Kurdistan. Since the start of the year 2008, 2 Kurds are reportedly executed, 3 sentenced to death and 7 are randomly killed by the security forces...
This was the aim of the international "Congress on Genocide in Kurdistan”, which ends today in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi federal state of Kurdistan. A delegation of the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) headed by Tilman Zülch, President...
"The Rise of Nationalism in Turkey during the EU Accession Process"..Date: 6th February 2008 , Time: 18.00- 20.00 , Venue: Room D502, Clement House, Aldwych, The London School of Economics. Speakers include: Professor Sami Zubaida, Dr. Can Dundar, Dr....
By Shamal Aqrawi/ A genocidal campaign under Saddam Hussein against Iraq's Kurds must never be forgotten, officials said on Monday at a ceremony for 371 victims, whose grieving relatives demanded those responsible be put to death. Ceremony mourns victims...
