- the Guardian - By Fazel Hawramy
- 13/05/2012
Kurdish president Masoud Barzani has won international recognition for the region but has forgotten about reform at home
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Heyrsh Abdulrhman
- 12/05/2012
Corruption has greatly increased in Kurdistan for the past few years posing as a very serious problem. The governmental authority has not had a serious strategy to combat corruption and this has made the circumstances
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 10/05/2012
Kurdish question in Turkey
Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 6.30-8.30pm
Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 08/05/2012
Date and Time: 17 May 2012 at 18:00
Venue: KLT, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 03/05/2012
Kurdish National Congress of North America invites friends of Kurdistan to its 24th annual meeting
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
- 28/04/2012
In 1996, a coalition government was formed in Turkey between Necmettin Erbakan’s Islamic Welfare Party and another center right group, the True Path Party, led by former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Amin Erbil
- 15/04/2012
The KRG must put aside a percentage of the Kurdistan’s yearly revenue to equip Kurdistan’s defence forces with advanced weaponry, while the rest of Iraq was still lagging behind militarily.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Dlshad Amin
- 15/04/2012
The mayor of Sulaymanyah City, Mr Zana Hama Salih, dies in a Sulaymanyah Assaysh Prison as he was investigated for corruption and nepotism charges against him.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Sahînê Bekirê Soreklî
- 11/04/2012
The Syrian Republic that gained independence in 1946 did not offer the Kurds any rights as a non-Arab ethnic group but no major atrocities were committed against the Kurdish population
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Society for Threatened Peoples
- 10/04/2012
The situation in Syria was discussed with Mrs. Graf. So far, about 8,000 people were killed during the conflict which has now lasted for one year.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Daniel Brode
- 29/03/2012
As a conservative Muslim nation, Iraq is by and large opposed to Western ideals and movements deemed contrary or heretical to Islam.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 29/03/2012
Venue: Room B102, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 23/03/2012
To celebrate Nowruz is to celebrate life, is to motivate us to continue with our struggle for the freedom of the Nation, for the liberation of land and the people of Kurdistan from the invaders and foreign, as well as internal oppressors.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 22/03/2012
Kurdish nation has lived and still live a harsh and bloody history, the affect of that is seen in denial of essential political, cultural and humanitarian rights of our nation.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur
- 18/03/2012
This March 20th marks the celebration of Nu Roj, the Kurdish New Year, it also happens to concur with World Water Day as was designated by the United Nations during a 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Tilman Zülch
- 16/03/2012
Presentation of the eighth annual Steiger Award is scheduled for March 17, 2012. This international award is intended to honor one who has shown remarkable straightforwardness, openness, humanity and tolerance.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
- 16/03/2012
I was not surprised to see Erdogan’s and Gülen’s relation has turned sour. Gülen and his followers are opportunistic. They know how to use people and systems for their purpose.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 08/03/2012
Kurdish poet Nazand Begikhani has been selected among 42 poets in France to win the French Feminine Simone Landry Prize of 2012
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Sido
- 23/02/2012
During my trip to Iraq in late January / early February of 2012, I talked to representatives of the Christian population in the autonomous Kurdish regions of Iraq and the Nineveh Plains.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Kurdish American Education Society
- 23/02/2012
This year, on June 20-22, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), will be held in Rio-De Janeiro, Brazil. Referred to also, as Earth Summit II, it is a follow-up meeting to 2002 Johannesburg Summit in South Africa
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Sido
- 22/02/2012
A total of 11 Kurdish political parties and many independent representatives are organized in the KNCS. It is the councils goal to show the unity of the Kurdish population in Syria.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Sido
- 21/02/2012
I visited the cemetery where the Barzani are buried. There are neither names nor birth or death dates on the gravestones.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 21/02/2012
The WHAM Project (standing for Wisdom, Humanity, Academic, Movement) is a volunteer run, non-profit organisation set-up in aid of enriching the education of children living in Kurdistan
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 18/02/2012
The white car was stopped forcefully in the middle of the road and the man was taken out by three PUK men and brought towards the square
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
- 16/02/2012
Is Kurdish a language of Civilization? Is Turkey’s tolerance hypocritical?
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- 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.
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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Lately, Iraqi Kurdistan has seen a surge in political activity, from the visit of Burhan Ghalioun, chairman of the Syrian National Council (SNC)
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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