Open Letter from Nawshirwan Mustafa to Gorran’s Parliamentarians in Kurdistan Parliament

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 29/01/2012
I, as a humble participant in the establishment of Gorran’s election list, and as a citizen of Kurdistan, I deem it to be my prerogative to address this letter to you. View Article

Iraq Kurd leader [Barzani] voices backing for Syria Kurds

  • AFP
  • 28/01/2012
Syrian Kurdish party leaders said they want a referendum after an eventual fall of embattled President Bashar al-Assad to decide on their people's future as part of Syria. View Article

Barzani: Age of denying Kurds is over

  • Zawya.com - By Fryad Mohammed
  • 28/01/2012
At the Syrian Kurd diaspora congress in Erbil, Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani said the age of denying Kurds is over and that he supports all the decisions by the congress. View Article

Kurds and sway

  • The Jerusalem Post - By Tony Badran
  • 28/01/2012
If there is one group in Syria that embodies the trans-national currents running through Syrian society, and which is likely to have increasing influence in the post-Assad era, it’s the Kurds. View Article

In the Past Turkey was a Gendarmerie State: Now It Is a Police State Gulenists and the AKP will close the BDPP, the main Kurdish party

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
  • 27/01/2012
While most of the world is busy focusing on the Arab Spring, a possible war on Iran, the US and Europeans debts, world financial markets, and the price of oil, Turkey View Article

Nawshirwan Mustafa to Alsharq Alawsat: Maliki’s Growing Power Stems from Absence of Effective Parliament

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 25/01/2012
According to the opinion of the Kurdish politician, Nashirwan Mustafa Amin, the leader of the Kurdish opposition group Change Movement, the Kurdish mediation will not produce a solution to the current political crisis in Iraq. View Article

Exxon moves on Kurdistan despite Baghdad threat

  • Reuters - By Jon Hemming
  • 25/01/2012
Exxon Mobil, the first oil major to move into Iraqi Kurdistan, is quietly mobilising in Arbil despite strenuous objections from the central government. View Article

U.S. Designates Kurdish Batallions

  • Voice of America
  • 25/01/2012
The al Qaeda Kurdish Battalions, or AQKB, is a terrorist organization primarily active in the northern Iran-Iraq border areas. View Article

German version of Helen Ghassemlou’s memoirs

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Sissy Danninger
  • 24/01/2012
Helen Krulich-Ghassemlou’s reminiscences of her life with the Iranian Kurdish leader (assassinated in Vienna, Austria, in July 1989) have become available in German at the beginning of 2012. View Article

A powerful Turkish cinematic condemnation of state-organized genocide

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Professor Hovhannes I. Pilikian
  • 24/01/2012
Someone high-up at the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism must be an enlightened Soul and more of a Democrat than any of the Eurocrats, having subsidized this film by Ozcan Alper. View Article

Turkey commits a massacre but rejects an apology

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Shakhawan Shorash
  • 24/01/2012
Turkish forces responded with a series of attacks, and the attacks continue. Turkey has been accused of using forbidden weapons in its attacks on Kurdish partisans. View Article

Shaikan appraisal logs touted in Iraq's Kurdistan region

  • Oil & Gas Journal
  • 23/01/2012
Log results indicate that the Shaikan-4 appraisal well may be the best well that Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. has logged to date in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. View Article

Eager for new alliances, Assad's opponents look to Iraqi Kurdistan

  • Today Zaman
  • 23/01/2012
Lately, Iraqi Kurdistan has seen a surge in political activity, from the visit of Burhan Ghalioun, chairman of the Syrian National Council (SNC) View Article

Kurdish Deputy President post to be solved after Talabani's return

  • Aswat al-Iraq
  • 23/01/2012
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Nawshirwan Mustafa: The Kurdish House Will Not Be Put in Order Through Social Niceties

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 19/01/2012
Nawshirwan Mustafa Amin, General Coordinator of Gorran Movement, in a reference to the recent developments in Iraq said "Iraqi Kurds" are part of the state of Iraq. View Article

Syria's Kurds mistrust government and opposition: activists

  • Reuters - By Jon Hemming
  • 15/01/2012
Syrian Kurds, the country's largest ethnic minority, do not trust President Bashar al-Assad, nor the opposition, so for now have largely kept out of the uprising against the government View Article

Blunder that left Asylum seeker free to kill family

  • Daily Express - By Padraic Flanagan
  • 15/01/2012
HOME Office bunglers missed the chance to deport a failed asylum seeker who went on to kill his partner and their two children before taking his own life. View Article

Peace and Democracy Party press release to the international public opinion

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 14/01/2012
It is a well-known fact that nearly 5000 Kurdish politicians including 6 parliamentarians, 27 mayors, dozens of members of city council and executive members of BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) have been arrested. View Article

Letter regarding Kurdish civilians by Turkey to Ki-moon

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 13/01/2012
I am writing this letter to request an independent inquiry into the ruthless bombing and massacre of 35 young Kurdish civilians on December 28, 2011 on the border in the North of Iraq and Uludere View Article

Interview with Producer, Yad Deen, on debut feature, The Brunt

  • KurdishMedia.com - By A.H. Murray
  • 13/01/2012
Over the past decade there has been a real international growth of interest in media funded and created from the diaspora of the Middle East. View Article

Turkish Justice: Gulen's recent Response to uludere massacre

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
  • 13/01/2012
The official statement argues that these 35 villagers were killed because the military thought they were terrorists. The military knows everything about the smuggling business. View Article

Letter to the British Prime Minister regarding Turkish massacre of Kurdish civillians

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
  • 05/01/2012
I wrote to your Excellency on 12 November on the occasion of the Turkish army's killing of 36 PKK fighters in Chele district in Turkish Kurdistan allegedly using chemical weapons. View Article

Christopher Hitches: The world’s most effective anti-totalitarian voice

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Sabah Salih
  • 03/01/2012
At a time when the intellectual climate in Europe and America and virtually everywhere else was decidedly against the liberation of Iraq, Hitchens offered argument after argument supporting it. View Article

Demonstration against Turkish barbaric act in Kurdistan

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 29/12/2011
Kurds are murdered again, 35 kurdish villagers are been killed by Turkish airpalin attack in Sirnex, Kurdistan. We call upon everyone to join us in protest aginst this aggresstion by Turkish military. View Article

The Muslim fans and fanatics of Zakho

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Amir Sharifi
  • 24/12/2011
One of the most pernicious hate crimes is that of seemingly pious men, who as self-proclaimed servants of God, incite their followers to rise up in divine frenzy against the kafirs, the heretics. View Article

About Fethullah Gülen Controversial speech

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Kamal Soleimani
  • 21/12/2011
Gülen’s latest speech does not come as surprise to the Kurds in Turkey. His speech just corroborates what the Kurds have been saying about Gülen all along. View Article

Translated two temporary Kurdish poems

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 17/12/2011
If wine is no solution to my sorrow, the wine-house is not to blame! In this pain the wine fails to get me drunk, the glass is not to blame! View Article

Erdogan’s apology between recognition and denial

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Shakhawan Shorash
  • 17/12/2011
On 23 November 2011, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan gave an apology for the 1937 massacre of Dersim Province, in which thousands of Alevi and Zaza Kurds died. View Article

"Change in northern Africa and the Middle East – Freedom for all Minorities?"

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 17/12/2011
An open forum of the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) in Goettingen on November 26th, 2011, was held with representatives of the Assyrians, the Kurds, the Copts, the Berbers and the Haratin (Abidin Ould-Merzough) View Article

The Arab revolutions – ethnic and religious minorities in hope and trepidation

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Sheik Murshid al Khaznawi
  • 17/12/2011
Kurds, Berber, Assyrian-Arameans, Kopts, Yazidi, and other minorities in the “Arabic world” fear that Islamism will increase its power in their countries. View Article

Pogroms of radical Islamists against Christians and Yazidis in Iraqi Kurdistan

  • Society for Threatened Peoples
  • 12/12/2011
After these pogroms, outraged Kurdish citizens attacked and destroyed six offices of the Islamic Union of Kurdistan in the cities of Dohuk, Zakho and Sumel destroyed. They also demolished six press offices. View Article

Why is the west funding Iran's deadly war on drugs?

  • the Guardian - By Fazel Hawramy
  • 08/12/2011
Iran's counter-narcotics programme results in hundreds of executions each year, yet western powers still support it View Article

An open letter from a citizen of Kurdistan to the PKK, KCK and BDP leadership

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 28/11/2011
This piece is written by Kurdish citizen who does not wish to be named View Article

Ismet Chérif Vanly – Obituary

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 24/11/2011
The Gesellschaft for bedrohte Völker (GfbV) mourns the loss of a democrat, scientist and member of our advisory board, Ismet Chérif Vanly (Wanly). View Article

Turkish bombing wounded a shepherd, local sources

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 22/11/2011
As a result of the Turkish air-bombardments, one shepherd, known as Ismail Hamed (20 year male) from the Village of Suregule wounded and taken to Qaladize Hospital, View Article

Academic research and Turkey: the case of Dersim as a taboo subject for academic research

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 17/11/2011
Speaker: Dr. Sukru ASLAN, Lecturer at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University/ Istanbul/Turkey Chaired: Ms Filiz Celik, PhD candidate at Swansea University View Article

Ismet Sherif Vanli passed away in Switzerland

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 09/11/2011
Ismet Sherif Vanli, the outstanding Kurdish activist, thinker and intellect, has passed away in a Swiss hospital where he has been under medical care for weeks. View Article

Gulen’s new strategy for solving the Kurdish problem: Why Gülen was silent about the Kurdish froblems for decades

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
  • 08/11/2011
Fethullah Gülen, in a recent decree on how to solve the Kurdish problem published on the website Herkul.org, thinks he knows the best solution. Especially when it comes to how to resolve the Kurdish problem View Article

Turkish behaviour against case-less Kurdish victims

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Shakhawan Shorash
  • 08/11/2011
An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude hit Wan, a Kurdish city in southeast Turkey. The earthquake caused hundreds of deaths, injured thousands, destroyed countless homes, and made thousands of people homeless. View Article

A Palestinian State may Mean Eventual Freedom for the Kurds

  • Huffington Post - By Dan Ehrlich
  • 02/11/2011
Turkey's strong support for a Palestinian state is a hypocritical irony that may come back to haunt it in the distant future. View Article

Kurds May Be Barometers of Obama’s Iraq Defeat

  • Commentary Magazine - By Michael Rubin
  • 01/11/2011
The Iraqi Kurds have prided themselves on being America’s allies throughout the Iraq war and its aftermath. View Article

Should the U.S. sell Turkey weapons to use against the PKK?

  • CNN
  • 30/10/2011
CNN’s Security Clearance blog reported yesterday that according to the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Obama administration may transfer combat helicopters from existing Marine inventory to Turkey. View Article

Turkey and the Kurds: Deadly tremors

  • The Economist
  • 29/10/2011
The earthquake that struck Turkey’s mainly Kurdish province of Van on October 23rd, killing at least 481 people, triggered an outpouring of solidarity. Millions of Turks donated to relief campaigns. View Article

Turkey Bombs Kurdish Rebels in Iraq After Deadly Attack

  • VOA News
  • 19/10/2011
Turkey has launched a military operation against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, hours after the militants killed at least 24 soldiers and wounded 18 in attacks in southeastern Turkey near the Iraqi border. View Article

Kurdish flag dispute stirs Iraqi tensions

  • Reuters - By Aseel Kami
  • 19/10/2011
Kurds protested in an Iraqi city on Sunday against an order to lower Kurdish flags from official buildings in a disagreement fanning tensions between Iraqi Arabs and the country's Kurdish population. View Article

Turkey's Kurds long for "Kurdish Spring"

  • Reuters - By Seyhmus Cakan
  • 19/10/2011
With its booming economy, secular democracy and growing clout, Turkey is often cited as a role model for Middle East nations gripped by popular revolt. View Article

Uprisings in the Middle East and the “Battle for Kurdistan”

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Deniz Kurdali Altundal
  • 16/10/2011
Widespread protests in the Middle East have ruptured out of a burgeoning civil society that want extended the things which most of the world has; civil, political, and social rights View Article

Mourning for Syrian-Kurdish Human Rights Activist: The Murder of Maschaal Tamo

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Sido
  • 16/10/2011
According to Tamo, approximately 1,500 Kurds had peacefully demonstrated for human rights on the streets of Kamischli in 2006. View Article

Iraqi Kurdish scholars put gender theory to the test

  • TSL Education - By Mattew Reisz
  • 13/10/2011
Matthew Reisz on a UK-supported research centre helping tackle violence against women in Kurdistan. The term "gender" does not exist in Kurdish and is sometimes seen as a synonym for homosexuality. View Article

Can Kurds rely on the Turkish state?

  • Today's Zaman - By Orhand Kemal Cengiz
  • 11/10/2011
The Kurdish question and the positions of political parties with regard to the conflict are becoming increasingly confusing and complex with every passing day. View Article