Book review: Kirkuk by Dr Kamal Mudhir Ahmed

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Derek Pinnock
  • 07/09/2010
This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in studying Kurdish history. For English readers this new edition has been clearly translated and succinctly introduced by Mufid Abdulla. View Article

Who is losing Turkey and to whom

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Salam Zand
  • 07/09/2010
Mindsets, behavioral patterns and value systems of a group of people (including religious beliefs), I would argue, are ultra structures created and boosted by existing socio-economic and political circumstances during a defined period of time. View Article

The power of words...

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Gerald A. Honigman
  • 07/09/2010
So, Israel and the Arabs are back in Washington for another round of one-sided Jew-arm twisting (aka "negotiations) by all the parties involved...not only Arabs. View Article

After a year of its rise, what the Change Movement has changed in political landscape

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Aso Ali
  • 02/09/2010
One year ago and as an outcome the elections of July 2009 of Kurdistan region a new political movement came to existence as the first publicly announced political movement to play the role of opposition. View Article

Iraqi politicians: splitting hairs or splitting the differences

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Salam Zandi
  • 02/09/2010
The outcome of a conflict is often perceived as either one wins or the other loses, both win or both lose. In conflicts, often enough, the feeling of zero-sum situation prevails; we are sharing one and the same pie; if I eat more you will eat less. View Article

Rethinking on a new Iraq

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Omer Ousta
  • 02/09/2010
Obama administration has fulfilled one of its electoral commitments to pull out of the war-weary Arab country. But has it made any difference for the Iraqis? View Article

The PKK laid down their arms: What will the Turkish government give the Kurds in response?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
  • 01/09/2010
The PKK has laid down their arms and declared a unilateral ceasefire. As part of the agreement, they will not use their weapons unless the Turkish government fires on them. View Article

Iraq attacks highlight fragile security

  • IWPR
  • 29/08/2010
Violence expected to continue as US troops withdraw and as long as political stalemate remains unresolved. View Article

Islamic Republic of Iran’s atrocities against civilian disobedience in Kurdistan

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Ahmad Eskandari
  • 27/08/2010
Since the very beginning of the establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran, the tone and mode of opposition has been different in Kurdistan. View Article

Turkish military officer confirms Kurd killings

  • The National - By Thomas Seibert
  • 25/08/2010
A former high-ranking official in the Turkish military has broken a long-held silence over the government’s suspected involvement in extrajudicial killings a move applauded by human rights activists. The killings are believed to be a result View Article

Mosque and strip bar side by side

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Hataw Sarkawt
  • 24/08/2010
If the opponents are right, and the purpose is to offend Americans, then the devoted Muslims could argue that the opposite is true. Nothing in New Work goes the way the Islamic prophet wanted. View Article

Arabs and the Mastery of modern Algebra

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Gerald A. Honigman
  • 24/08/2010
Soon, Israel will once again be expected to give away the entire store because Arabs have merely agreed to discuss the giveaway. View Article

How Islamism uses America against America

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Sabah Salih
  • 22/08/2010
America as the incubator of the cult of multiculturalism has inflicted a great deal of harm on itself: it can no longer defend its cultural values. View Article

Iraqi school books criticised for sectarian bias

  • IWPR
  • 22/08/2010
After talking to several students and teachers, I learned that the problem was not just with the Islamic curricula: one of the main criticisms was that the curricula were biased toward the Shia sect of Islam. View Article

A Kurdish Autonomous Region in Turkey Modelled on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)

  • Dr. Aland Mizell
  • 18/08/2010
The Philippines’ ARMM has a population of more than three million in the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao Del Sur, Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and the City of Marawi. The ARMM region is headed by one regional governor, one regional vice-governor, View Article

Who Killed Kurdish Journalist Sardasht Osman?

  • By Charles Glass-Taki's Magazine
  • 17/08/2010
Denying freedom of expression to Kurds under the rule of Turks and Persians is criminal, but the repression of Kurdish journalists by the Kurds’ own government in northern Iraq is tragic. The Kurdistan Regional Government and the two political parties View Article

Tariq Aziz: "Britain and the US killed Iraq. I wish I was martyred"

  • The Guardian - By Martin Chulov
  • 16/08/2010
Tariq Aziz: ‘I will not speak against Saddam until I am a free man,’ said Aziz. ‘When I can write the truth I can even speak against my best friend’ View Article

A Kurdish flag in Turkish skies?

  • By Mustafa Akyol-Hurriyet Daily News
  • 11/08/2010
About 10 days ago, Osman Baydemir, the Kurdish mayor of predominantly Kurdish Diyarbakir, said something that shocked most Turks. 'Why hasn’t the yellow-red-and-green-colored flag waved,'he asked in a public speech View Article

Does terrorism help Gülen’s Muslim missionaries? A first class revolution from the bottom up

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
  • 09/08/2010
In May 2010 media outlets and blogs spots across the Internet discussed Bill Gates’ Ten million dollar donation to the Gulen Movement’s publically funded charter schools in Texas whose agenda is to spread his version of Islam View Article

Happy Ramadan! Reading deeper into Ramadan

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Ousta
  • 09/08/2010
America-based author, speaker and translator of Spanish and French descent, a long-time revert, the author speaks with erudition and authority, accessing authentic texts and sources on the ultimate goal of Islamic worship View Article