Iran: End slide to more bloodshed

  • 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. View Article

London Kurds unite in opposition to events unfolding in Turkey

  • 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. View Article

Tehran's Biggest Fear

  • 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. View Article

Towelhead, a metaphorical love affair

  • 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. View Article

6th International Conference on EU, Turkey And The Kurds

  • EUTCC
  • 26/12/2009
‘The Kurdish Conflict, Political Dialogue & Peace-building’ View Article

Syria: Kurdish human rights worker arrested

  • 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 View Article

Kurdish town swept by day of rioting

  • IWPR
  • 23/12/2009
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. View Article

North of Kurdistan: is Turkey returning to the martial law of 1978?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mufid Abdulla
  • 21/12/2009
This is a response to the article posted on Sundayzaman.com dated 20th December 2009. View Article

Fort hood and the media

  • 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 View Article

Kurdish American Community protests Banning of the Democratic Society Party-DTP in Turkey

  • 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. View Article

Muslims must roll up their Sleeves

  • 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. View Article

Human Rights Organisation of Kurdistan: The whereabouts of detained Shafi Burhani by Iran Intelligence Service is unknown

  • 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. View Article

KSSO press release about closure of DTP

  • KSSO
  • 14/12/2009
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. View Article

US support follows stability

  • 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. View Article

Turkey’s High Court decision to ban the DTP was unjust

  • 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.” View Article

EUTCC Patron Leyla Zana banned by Constitutional Court, Turkey

  • EUTCC
  • 12/12/2009
Leyla Zana, an internationally renowned Kurdish politician and spokesperson is banned from joining any political party the next five years. View Article

EUTCC strongly condemns Turkey’s ban on DTP

  • EUTCC
  • 11/12/2009
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. View Article

The change “Goran” between political parties & movements - I

  • 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. View Article

Protect archeology

  • 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. View Article

Human Rights Day

  • 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 View Article

Asos Hardi, the editor-in-chief of Awene, awarded

  • 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. View Article

Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan: Kamran Assa, the brother of Kianoosh Assa arrested

  • 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. View Article

On the anniversary of the international day of human rights

  • 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. View Article

KNC-North letter to President of the EU Commission

  • 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. View Article

Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan: Suhrab Karimi, a Kurdish student activist, is arrested

  • 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. View Article

Kurdish Studies Seminar: Human Rights Violations in Turkey, the Kurds and the EU

  • 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. View Article

Cultural values

  • 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. View Article

Kurds and the 2010 census in United States of America, Part I

  • 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. View Article

CIA’s role in Afghan war ‘uncomfortable’

  • 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. View Article

DTP closure case

  • 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) . View Article

KYC's 1st Kurdish Festival, Atlanta

  • 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 View Article

Germany returns Kurds to uncertain fate

  • IWPR
  • 05/12/2009
Deportation to Syria of some failed asylum seekers leads to arrest, rights groups say. View Article

Seminar and Discussion: Human Rights Violations in Turkey, the Kurds and the EU

  • 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 View Article

Pleasing others, a cultural flaw

  • 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. View Article

Zaynab Jalalian’s Letter to the world’s Conscience

  • 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. View Article

Iran: A stubborn murderer of Kurdish human rights activists

  • 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. View Article

News: The Iranian authorities continue in persecution of the Kurds

  • 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. View Article

Seminar: A brief visual history of the social and architectural transformation in cities of South Kurdistan

  • 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 View Article

Report by HRW: Group Denial: Repression of Kurdish Political and Cultural Rights in Syria

  • 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. View Article

Erdogan's and Gulen's inconsistent views about Turkey’s Kurdish problem: What they said then and what they say now

  • 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. View Article

Hawlati: Sidad Barzani confiscates an ancient sculpture

  • 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. View Article

Does downfall equal liberation?

  • 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 View Article

Bring down the walls!

  • 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. View Article

The 2009: Year of the ox, gorilla, astronomy or president?

  • 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 View Article

The UN and the Kurds

  • 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? View Article

How not to treat a friend…

  • 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. View Article

PDKI's Secretary-general's letter to Ban-Ki moon about the Human rights situation in Iran

  • 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 View Article

Letter to UN Secretary General regarding Kurds in Syria

  • 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. View Article

Iraqi Kurds being Marginalized

  • 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 View Article

Lest we forget

  • 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. View Article