- Amnesty International
- 30/12/2009
Amnesty International today condemned the further and wholly avoidable loss of up to 8-15 lives in Iran during the ‘Ashoura religious commemorations.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mary Pole
- 29/12/2009
The Kurdish diaspora in London is not homogenous. Differences in dialect, culture and political persuasion all contribute to a community that is often recognised as divided.
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- New York Times - By Selig S. Harrison
- 29/12/2009
The biggest threat to the ruling ayatollahs and generals in multi-ethnic Iran does not come from the embattled democratic opposition movement struggling to reform the Islamic Republic.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Hataw Sarkawt
- 28/12/2009
Towelhead is the title of a 2007 drama written and directed by Alan Ball. The film is a metaphor for the love affair between the Middle East and the United States.
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‘The Kurdish Conflict, Political Dialogue & Peace-building’
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- The Society for Threatened Peoples
- 24/12/2009
On 16th November Mustafa Ismail informed the STP that the government security service had interrogated him two days previously in Aleppo
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Hundreds take to the streets in violent protest against poor standard of public services. The biggest day of street violence in Iraqi Kurdistan since 2006.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mufid Abdulla
- 21/12/2009
This is a response to the article posted on Sundayzaman.com dated 20th December 2009.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Zeki Amedi
- 21/12/2009
The fact is that Bin Laden has revealed all the details of the 9/11 plan and has admitted to being responsible for the attacks on Washington and New York and similar attacks in Europe
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 18/12/2009
With the closure of DTP on December 11, 2009 a wave of relentless violence has been unleashed by the security forces in Turkey against not only DTP but the Kurdish minority as a whole.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Omer Ousta
- 17/12/2009
Well, you got me. This is my fourth update, in English, Turkish and Kurdish, about the minaret issue, and yet another is on the way to being published in the Turkish 'Taraf' paper.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 16/12/2009
On 10 December 2009, lecturer Shafi Burhani was taken in for questioning by Mahabad Intelligence Service, there is still no news about his condition of detention and his whereabouts.
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Kurdish Studies and Student Organization are deeply concerned about the decision by the Turkish Constitutional Court to close down the only pro-Kurdish party in the Turkish parliament, DTP.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Butan Amedi
- 14/12/2009
Addressing the Nobel Peace Prize Committee On December 10, 2009, President Barack Obama stated that the US mission in Iraq is ending, and his administration will focus on Afghanistan.
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- KNC - North America
- 14/12/2009
The decision of Turkish High Court to ban the Democratic Society Party (DTP) was based on a racist provision of the Turkish Constitution that claims “all who hold Turkish citizenship in Turkey are Turks.”
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Leyla Zana, an internationally renowned Kurdish politician and spokesperson is banned from joining any political party the next five years.
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The EUTCC strongly deplores the Turkish Constitutional Court’s decision to ban the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP). So far 37 members of the DTP have been banned from official politics.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mufid Abdulla
- 11/12/2009
In order for Gorran to operate to its full potential as a political movement it is useful to first consider the following points; a clear definition of the exact role of a political party and movement.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Butan Amedi
- 11/12/2009
The finders have a legitimate advantage to sell the antiquity to a museum, establishing a win-win situation for both people and archeologists, although this arrangement is not immune from problems.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Nyaz Kirkuki
- 11/12/2009
For millions of people globally, the struggle to extract themselves from situations of discrimination at almost every turn in their daily lives is an impossible ambition. Tragically, as we have seen in the past twenty years
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 10/12/2009
The authorities have tried to sue Hawlati several times and in 2005 they managed to take the paper to court in accusing them of publishing a false story.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 09/12/2009
Kamran Assa the brother of the deceased student Kianoosh Assa was arrested alongside Kianoosh’s friend Bijan Rezaei on 07 December 2009 midday in Tehran.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Ibrahim Lajany
- 09/12/2009
December 10 has been named as ‘The International Day of Human Rights’. On this day of 1948, Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and this day became a day to honor the Human Rights.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By North America
- 08/12/2009
The sectarian state has also suppressed activities of Kurdish women's organizations that have been peaceably advocating for human rights in Kurdistan-Iran.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 08/12/2009
Suhrab Karimi, a Kurdish student activist, was arrested in Qurwa in Kurdistan province by the security forces on Sunday night just before the start of the student day on Monday, 07 December 2009.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 08/12/2009
Urgent! Change of speaker
We regret to inform you that there has been a change of speaker for the seminar on Thursday 10th December 2009.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Heyrsh Abdulrahman
- 08/12/2009
Some traditional cultures of the African countries are represented with various stories. The story of Sundiata represents the cultures of Mali while the story of Genji represents the traditions of the Japanese.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Aryan Akrayi
- 07/12/2009
Census is a national campaign to count everyone residing in the United States. It is a U.S Constitution requirement to conduct this survey once every 10 years.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Omer Ousta
- 07/12/2009
During that war, North Vietnamese communist forces resorted to exiting North Vietnam into Cambodia and making their way south with troops and supplies before entering South Vietnam.
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- DTP Representative- USA
- 07/12/2009
On 20 November 2007, a lawsuit was opened at the Constitutional Court demanding the closure of the Democratic Society Party (Demokratik Toplum Partisi – DTP) .
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 06/12/2009
Kurdish Festival will be a gathering to celebrate a heritage that has taken over 8000 years in making. During which many aspects of Kurdish life will be brought to light
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Deportation to Syria of some failed asylum seekers leads to arrest, rights groups say.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 04/12/2009
Speaker: Mr. Akin Birdal, Former Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and MP for Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkish Parliament
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Hataw Sarkawt
- 03/12/2009
Galawij owns an elegant and popular cafe in the midtown of a metropolitan city. Despite its popularity, it was too flashy and decorative for my taste.
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- KNC - North America
- 01/12/2009
I asked the Judge if I could say good-bye to my mother. He told me “shut up.” The Judge rejected my appeal and refused to let me to see my mother.
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- KNC - North America
- 30/11/2009
In the past years, the Iranian despotic regime has been busier than ever before murdering Kurdish human rights activists.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 28/11/2009
Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan reports on 26 November 2009 that Abbas Jalilian, a Kurdish researcher and author, was sent to Dizelabad prison in Kermanshah for 15 month in the beginning of this week.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 28/11/2009
Following first KSSO seminar on urban regeneration in South Kurdistan in November 2008 at SOAS, Parwez has been continuing his research to document visually the important social and architectural transformation
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 28/11/2009
Syrian authorities should end their unlawful and unjustified practices of attacking peaceful Kurdish gatherings and detaining Kurdish political and cultural activists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on 26 November 2009.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Aland Mizell
- 28/11/2009
Prime Minister Erdogan has launched what he calls a comprehensive approach to ending the Kurdish problem in Turkey. The initiative includes greater cultural rights for Kurds and some kind of semi-autonomy or local autonomy.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 25/11/2009
On November 19th, 2009, the Kurdish bi-weekly Hawlati reported that Mr. Sidad Barzani, the brother of Kurdistan regional president Masoud Barzani, confiscated an ancient sculpture found by a citizen in the village of Hesne of Barzan region.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mary Pole
- 25/11/2009
The film was met with mixed reviews during the Film Festival. Kurdish viewers questioned the necessity of a sex scene early on in the film as well as the alcohol-fuelled sense of chaos
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Delovan Barwari
- 25/11/2009
In numerous democratic countries, more than one official language or dialect is recognized at both the province and the national level.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Ivan Simic
- 24/11/2009
The year 2009 is definitely Presidential year; Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th, and first African American President of the United States, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Iceland
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Sait Keskin
- 23/11/2009
In the 64 years that have passed, have the nations of the world achieved that purpose, and has the UN implemented any of these goals? Can the UN really establish peace and bring an end to all wars?
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Gerald A. Honigman
- 22/11/2009
What I have just described is the Arab and extreme Left's idea of "free speech." It was so back then, and it so today as well…perhaps even worse.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 21/11/2009
Iran’s national groups in general, and the Kurdish people in particular, are disappointed by the fact that the Western countries, EU and US in particular, in their efforts to persuade the regime in Tehran to halt its enrichment of uranium
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- KNC - North America
- 21/11/2009
The Kurds in Syria have been totally ignored by the outside world and are hardly mentioned as another ethnicity in Syria.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed M.A. Ahmed
- 20/11/2009
In the absence of accurate statistics, based on a census, it became guesswork to deciding the rate of the population increase at the national and provincial levels, rendering the outcome of the January 2010 elections speculative at best
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Shorsh K. Palani
- 19/11/2009
Ehsan Fattahian was arrested last summer by security agents for having been affiliated with a Kurdish political party.
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