Iran and Pakistan: Terrorism states or victims of terrorism?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Ivan Simic
  • 09/02/2010
For the past few months we had the “honour” to read many articles and news reports in which above countries have been described as mayor threats and terrorism/terrorist supported states without any sustainable evidence. View Article

Hawlati: Barzani takes unilateral decisions and political parties boycott the Supreme Council of Political Parties

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 09/02/2010
Mr. Qadir Aziz told Hawlati, “We have outspokenly talked to the KRG president and stated that the order and authorities of the council be readdressed.” View Article

Syria . . . Seriously (Take # 2)

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Gerald A. Honigman
  • 07/02/2010
Only Syria's unceasing machinations in Lebanon, support of the oppostion against America in Iraq, alliance with Iran, and so forth eased the pressure from Foggy Bottom on the Jews to hand themselves over as a sacrificial lamb. View Article

Ibrahim Bilmez speech in6th International Conference on EU, Turkey and the Kurds

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 07/02/2010
A while ago the Turkish government announced that it would launch a ‘‘Kurdish’’ initiative. Later on this initiative became the ‘‘democracy’’ initiative and then finally the ‘‘national unity and fraternity’’ project. View Article

KNK speech in 6th International Conference on EU, Turkey and the Kurds

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mehmet Yuksel
  • 07/02/2010
Taking part at this conference you must surely be aware of the history of the Kurdish question and its present condition. This conflict lasting now more than 25 years has resulted in the deaths of more than 40.000 people. View Article

Osman Baydemir's message to 6th International Conference on EU, Turkey and the Kurds

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Osman Baydemir
  • 06/02/2010
It is with sadness that I convey to you that I cannot join you today in this important conference, “Turkey and the Kurdish Conflict: Political Dialogue & Peace-building”, organized by the EU Turkey Civic Committee. View Article

Speech of Mrs Leyla Zana in 6th International Conference on EU, Turkey and the Kurds

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Leyla Zana
  • 06/02/2010
Mostly, finding peace again, is taken to mean cleansing of the area from Kurds. View Article

EU’s joining Turkey

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Hataw Sarkawt
  • 06/02/2010
The purpose of this satirical piece is to reflect a discussion I recently observed. The theme was about the readiness of the European Union in joining Turkey. View Article

To what extend do individuals have human rights?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Ardahan Ali
  • 05/02/2010
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every individual as a result of being human; human rights are basic standards, without them we cannot live in peace and dignity View Article

Letter from Kurdish National Congress of North America to EUTCC conf.

  • KNC - North Americ
  • 04/02/2010
The Kurdish National Congress of North America extends to you our best wishes and congratulations on holding the sixth intentional conference on the EU-Turkey and the Kurds. View Article

Iraqi exile votes confirmed

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 04/02/2010
The Independent High Commissioner of Elections in Iraq announced today a two-tiered voting process for Iraqis living outside Iraq. View Article

Kurdish war of words

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 02/02/2010
Political tensions escalate sharply as parliament and police investigate series of attacks on opposition figures. View Article

Open Letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  • Peace in Kurdistan
  • 02/02/2010
We express our strongest opposition to the arbitrary arrest and detention of human rights lawyer Mr Muharrem Erbey, General Vice Chairperson of the Human Rights Association (Insan Haklari Dernegi – IHD) and Chairperson of its Diyarbakir Province Branch. View Article

Hrant Dink Day in the UK Parliament on 19th January 2010

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Desmond Fernandes
  • 02/02/2010
Report by the Hrant Dink Society (Supported by Nor Serount Cultural Association – UK and Armenia Solidarity), c/o The Temple of Peace, Cardiff View Article

Oil smuggling as a factor of the cycle of violence in Iraq

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Heyrsh Abdulrahman
  • 02/02/2010
Conflict in Iraq has a long history but its major cause can be traced in the Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 that provoked outside intervention. View Article

With Obama’s failure, who next for Middle East peace?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Omer Ousta
  • 02/02/2010
In an audiotape broadcast on Al-Jazeera television on Jan. 24, Al-Qaeda’s leader Osama Bin Laden warned the United States that “our attacks against you will continue so long as you maintain your support for Israel.” View Article

The Launch of ‘Friends of Belge’ – An Appeal for Solidarity

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Desmond Fernandes
  • 02/02/2010
As ‘Friends of Belge’, we aim to provide whatever international solidarity and financial and moral support we can offer Ragip Zarakolu and Belge Press. View Article

Kurds for Labour

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mary Pole
  • 01/02/2010
‘Kurds for Labour’ was formed to promote the interests of Kurdish people in the Labour Party and improve the quality of life of the Kurdish community in Britain. View Article

Three years of detention, no convictions for five Kurdish politically activists in Syria

  • Syrian Committee for Human Rights-MAD
  • 30/01/2010
Hearings took place at the Supreme State Security Court in Damascus of five young Kurdish men on 26 January 2010: View Article

Zuhdi Sardar’s creative evolution exhibition

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Amir Sharifi
  • 30/01/2010
High Studio Fine Art Gallery in Moor Park is presenting “Creative Evolution” by the renowned Kurdish artist, Zuhdi Sardar. View Article

Is it Noroz or Noroj?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Amir Sharifi
  • 30/01/2010
Recently there has been a debate on the etymology of the term Noroz and it has been suggested the term Noroz be replaced with Noroj [zh]. View Article

Seminar: Green Movement and national minorities in Iran

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 30/01/2010
The recent resistance against the Islamic regime and cry for freedom in Iran, labelled as ‘the Green Movement’, has taken the focus of attentions. View Article

Sixth International Conference: EU, Turkey and the Kurds

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 28/01/2010
European Parliament, Brussels 3rd & 4th February 2010 - Room ASP 1G2 View Article

Four men disappeared in Syria after political arrest two months ago

  • Syrian Human Rights Committee -MAD
  • 28/01/2010
According to Syrian Human Rights Committee-MAD, almost two months ago political security forces raided the houses of Kurdish citizens in the area called Zor Ava, Damascus and arrested four people but there is no news of them: View Article

IRAQ:Security forces now biggest enemy for Iraqi journalists

  • Reporters without Borders
  • 27/01/2010
The latest series of bombings in Baghdad, yesterday afternoon, were targeted at the city’s main hotels, which house many Iraqi and foreign news media. View Article

The Green Movement and responsibilities that lie ahead

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mostafa Hejri
  • 26/01/2010
Following the November 4th demonstrations —particularly the protests on the Day of Ashura by the Green Movement in Tehran— it has become clear that the bulk of this opposition are ardent opponents of the theocratic rule. View Article

Conf: Conspiracy Theories in the Middle East and the United States

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 24/01/2010
Conspiracy Theories in the Middle East and the United States: A Comparative Approach 13-15 January 2011, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany View Article

Book in Kurdish: Blood, Beliefs and Ballots

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 24/01/2010
Professor Robert Olson's latest book "Blood, Beliefs and Ballots: The Management of Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey, 2007-2009" published by Mazda Publishers late last year has been re-published in Turkish by Avesta Publishing in Istanbul. View Article

PUK fears election frauds in Duhok and Erbil, Hawlati

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 22/01/2010
London (KurdishMedia.com) 22 January 2010: An anonymous source in the election commission of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) expressed concerns that Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) View Article

IRAQ: More threats and violence against independent journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan

  • Reporters Without Borders
  • 21/01/2010
“I recognised the driver, a long-time member of the PUK,” he continued, referring to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the party headed by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. View Article

Mud, sweat and tears on Iranian frontier

  • IWPR
  • 21/01/2010
Border crackdown upsets Kurdish smugglers trafficking oil and alcohol between Iran and Iraq. View Article

Kurdish criticism of US grows

  • IWPR
  • 21/01/2010
Some doubt American commitment to resolve disputes over oil-rich Kirkuk. View Article

Human Rights Watch: World Report 2010, Events 2009

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 20/01/2010
This 20th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. View Article

Two Kurdish sisters face political trial in Syria

  • Syrian Committee for Human Rights-MAD
  • 19/01/2010
A Kurdish woman, Asmia Mourad Sami from Girke Lege in the Kurdish region of Syria, has been arrested. She is a married woman and mother of eight children. View Article

A message from Iran regarding FGM

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Kameel Ahmady
  • 17/01/2010
Combating FGM in Iran has developed from an idea to a successful project carried out be a motivated, young, small but very committed team that I have the pleasure to be part of since 2007. View Article

"Kurdistan’s democracy is a work in progress" …Thomas Friedman says

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Hemin H. Lihony
  • 17/01/2010
Friedman still believes that “Kurdistan’s democracy is a work in progress and it still needs a lot of work if it is going to deliver for all the Kurdish people the kind of governance they need and deserve." View Article

A Human rights lecture dedicated to the memory of Hrant Dink

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Kani Xulam
  • 17/01/2010
Instead of shedding the blood of others, as his father did, he would, like Hrant Dink, urge the Turks, the Kurds and the Armenians alike to cleanse their blood from the poisonous effects of intolerance and hatred. View Article

Armed exchange in Gerdesen led to 2 deaths, local sources reveal

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 16/01/2010
Armed exchanged between KDP Parastin agency and locals led to the death of 2 people and wounding 3 others View Article

Continued killing of Kurdish conscripts in Syria

  • Syrian Committee for Human Rights-MAD
  • 15/01/2010
Kurdish conscript Issa Baki Khalaf, born 1991 in the Kobani area was killed whilst engaged in compulsory military service with 15th platoon stationed in Adra province. View Article

Iran: Halt executions of Kurdish and other political prisoners

  • Amnesty International
  • 15/01/2010
Held without trial for many months, mostly in Evin Prison, his final court session took place on 16 November in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court. View Article

"No civilized humankind would accept the destruction of 12 thousand year-old Hasankeyf"

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Ipek Tasli
  • 15/01/2010
We know that no civilized humankind would accept the destruction of 12 thousand year-old Hasankeyf. View Article

During 2009, 267 people left sub-district of Takiye, Awene

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 15/01/2010
During 2009, 267 people has left the sub-district of Chamchamal, Sulemani governorate, to resettle abroad, mainly Europe. View Article

"What is really going on in Turkey?" Hrant Dink Commemoration in London on 19th

  • The Hrant Dink Society
  • 14/01/2010
The Hrant Dink Society - c/o The Temple of Peace, Cardiff, Wales - invites you on Hrant Dink Day, 19th January 2010, to the UK Parliament for a series of meetings on the theme: "What is really going on in Turkey?" View Article

"The Kurds’ representation in Washington has not done a good job"

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 14/01/2010
The ‘open list’ will hurt the PDK and PUK more than other parties because of public anger at corruption in the PDK and PUK, and public anger at the tendency of both PDK and PUK to prioritize family over competence. View Article

Upcoming events in Southern California

  • Kurdish Community of Southern California
  • 14/01/2010
The Opposite of Silence, art and music, speaker Kani Xulam, 8:00pm, on Friday, January 15 at The Glendale Armenian Youth Center, located at 211 West Chestnut St. Glendale CA 91204. View Article

Syria continues pressure on political Kurds

  • Syrian Committee for Human Rights-MAD
  • 14/01/2010
Syrian Committee for Human Rights-MAD MAD reports that an individual military judge in Aleppo released the following detainees on 12 January 2010: Lucan Suleiman Khader, born 1980 and Idris Mohammed Mohammed born 1983. View Article

Fear grips Anbar after bombings

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 13/01/2010
Double bombing follows wave of assassinations targeting leaders in western Iraqi province. View Article

Gorran activist assaulted in Penjwen, Sulemani, Sbeiy

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 12/01/2010
Osman Haji Mahmud was in his home when a group of an unidentified men fired at the window of his home; no one was hurt in the incident. View Article

The Gulf War and the US position

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Butan Amedi
  • 12/01/2010
The liberation of Kuwait was carried under the United Nations (UN) Resolution 677, year 1990, which requested Iraq to unconditionally withdraw from Kuwait by January 15th, 1991. View Article

Gender, Memory, and Political Discourse: The case of Anfal surviving women

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 12/01/2010
Venue: School of Oriental and African Studies, London View Article