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

Does the new cabinet have legitimacy?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Razan Lawan
  • 19/11/2009
The parliament in Erbil is now a symbol of democracy, and it is critical that it also be a real political institution for the Kurdish people. View Article

Why should the Kurds not have the right to choose their destiny?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Sait Keskin
  • 19/11/2009
The Kurds have inhabited the land they inhabit today for more than 4000 years, according to oriental anthropologists. View Article

Kurdish activist physically assaulted in Arbil

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 18/11/2009
PUK and KDP security services started cooperation after their defeat in the last election. People fear that these attacks are part of creating fear in order to stop critical activists. View Article

Yezidi Event in London

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 16/11/2009
Tuesday 24th November at 6.30pm - The programme will begin at 6.30 with a film about the Yezidi faith followed, at 7.00, by a welcome from Simon Keyes of St Ethelburga's and Sarah Panizzo of Gulan. View Article

Genocide, insurgency and multiculturalism

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rebwar Fatah
  • 15/11/2009
So far, the international community has been reactive in its response to genocide or attempts at genocide. View Article

Sixth London Kurdish Film Festival

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 14/11/2009
The Sixth London Kurdish Film Festival: 20Th November - 30th November 2009 With 6 venues, 127 films, Cannes 09 prize winners look set to take the Sixth London Kurdish Film Festival to new heights View Article

Kurdish students arrested in the Kurdish region of Syria

  • International Support Kurds in Syria Association
  • 14/11/2009
Kurdish student Rojhat Mohammed Mohammed (born 1989, in Deyrik) was arrested in the morning of 22 October 2009 by intelligence security forces View Article

Iraq's Kurdish parties lose unity ahead of January election

  • AFP
  • 14/11/2009
Iraq's Kurdish politicians, locked in dispute with the Baghdad government, will lack unity for the first time when fighting January's general election, due to the rise of a new opposition force. View Article

American Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits

  • New York Times - By James Glanz and Walter Gibbs
  • 13/11/2009
Peter W. Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policy makers like Joseph R. Biden Jr. and John Kerry. View Article

Do we have a monopoly on suffering still?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Benjamin Kweskin
  • 13/11/2009
Many extremist Jews claim that leftists support groups “incite violence.” This includes the International Solidarity Movement, B’Tselem, Shalom/Achshav/Salaam al-An/Peace Now, and Machsom Watch. View Article

One “enemy of God’s” farewell letter to another

  • KurdishMedia.com (Translated) - By Kamal Soleimani
  • 13/11/2009
Translation of a farewell letter from Farzad Kamangar, an imprisoned Kurdish teacher and journalist, to Ehsan Fattahian, a Kurdish Activist who was executed for muharabeh( enmity with God) in Iran on November 12th, 2009. View Article

Arms to Farms: Kurds in Turkey versus Moros in the Philippines

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Aland Mizell
  • 13/11/2009
The Philippine army has been fighting an insurgency war for more than three decades. It has taken many lives and drained the government’s budget for progress in many areas of the southeastern region of the Philippines. View Article

The execution of a young Kurd in Iran or his death under torture

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Ahmad Eskandari
  • 12/11/2009
Fattahian was subjected to different kinds of torture in custody and eventually he was sentenced by the ‘Islamic revolutionary court’ of Sanandaj to 10 years in prison exiled to a jail far from Kurdistan. View Article

Editor of Wirdbeen magazin was shot at near Sulemani

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 11/11/2009
Assaults on journalists and activists has stepped up in the last few months, in particular after the PUK-KDP alliance did badly in the 25 July election. View Article

AKR condemns execution of Kurdish activist Ehsan Fattahian and urges End to death penalty for political prisoners in Iran

  • Alliance for Kurdish Rights
  • 11/11/2009
Ehsan was transferred to a solitary ward in Sanandaj prison late yesterday before being executed. Family members, friends and activists gathered outside the prison in protest of his execution. View Article

On vulnerable ground

  • HRW
  • 11/11/2009
Violence against Minority Communities in Nineveh Province’s Disputed Territories View Article

Kurdish Jewish

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Nyaz Kirkuki
  • 11/11/2009
Kurdistan is a unique synthesis of several cultures and ethnic groups. In the past, it bordered the great Assyrian-Babylonian and Hittite empires; later it adjoined Persian, Arabic, and Turkish civilizations. View Article

Brutal assault on a journalist Nabaz Goran in Kurdistan

  • Reporters Without Borders
  • 11/11/2009
Reporters Without Borders today called for police to do their utmost to find those responsible for a “cowardly” physical attack on leading Iraqi Kurdish investigative journalist Nabaz Goran View Article

Kurdish activist Fattahian executed in Iran

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 11/11/2009
Ehsan Fattahian, 28-years-old, charged with acting against national security in the lower court, sentenced originally to 10 years in exile, was executed today, Wednesday,11 November 2009. View Article

War veterans make Iraq their business

  • FT - By Roula Khalaf and Kevin Sieff
  • 10/11/2009
The business prospects have attracted some higher-profile diplomats too. One is Zalmay Khalilzad, a proponent of the 2003 invasion who served as US ambassador in Baghdad from 2005 to 2007. View Article

Discussion about images of the Kurdish identity in London

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 10/11/2009
Kurdish Studies and Students Organisation's seminar at SOAS View Article

Iranian theocratic regime continues to execute Kurds

  • KNC - North America
  • 10/11/2009
Ehsan (Esma’il) Fattahian (also spelled Fattahiyan) - a Kurdish political activist in Iran has been held at Sanandaj central prison. View Article

Kurdish-Turkish peace initiative and the current developments in Turkey

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 10/11/2009
Mr. Gür is currently the representative of Democratic Society Party (DTP) of Turkey in Washington, DC, USA. View Article

Support Kurdish political prisoners in Syria

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Amed Semo
  • 09/11/2009
The oppressive Syrian government has been using the State of Emergency in force since 1963, to continue giving the military and political security forces sweeping powers of arbitrary arrest and indefinite detentions. View Article

Appeal to stop the execution of Ehsan Fatahian

  • Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan
  • 09/11/2009
This distressing news has caused immense anxiety to his family and has worried enormously the human rights activists’ community. View Article

Gorran activist physically assaulted in Sulemani

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 07/11/2009
A Goran activist physically assaulted in Sulemani, Dara Haji Tofiq, was physically assaulted in front of his home in the city of Sulemani by four unidentified individuals. View Article

Kurds in Syria sentenced for between five years and life imprisonment for political activity

  • International Support Kurds in Syria Association
  • 06/11/2009
Kurds in Syria sentenced for between five years and life imprisonment for political activity – November 2009. View Article

What is mine is mine; What is yours is negotiable

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rashid Karadaghi
  • 03/11/2009
The late Howard K. Smith, the ABC Television News anchor and commentator, used to remind us often of one of his favorite quotations, which he attributed to the communists: ''What is mine is mine; what is yours is negotiable''. View Article

Erdogan’s trip to Iran and Turkey’s tilt towards the Islamic regime in Iran

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Salah Muradi
  • 03/11/2009
Following the strained relations between Turkey and Israel, Raceb Tayyip Edrogan, the Turkish Prime Minister embarked on an official trip to Iran. View Article

The Nofara

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Massoud Akko
  • 30/10/2009
Words fly around the air of the café; the guests continue to smoke incessantly and games of backgammon and chess stretch on. View Article

Prominent journalist attacked in Arbil, KDP accused

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 29/10/2009
Three unknown men attacked the prominent Kurdish journalist Nabaz Goran in Arbil, reported local media. View Article

PUK/KDP spent $15 million of “their money” on one district to win the election, says top party official

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Ali
  • 27/10/2009
The PUK and KDP coalition, known as Kurdistani List, spent $15 million of “their money” on one district to win the election, in which they were humiliated. View Article