- 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. However, the Turkish government has
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American troops are leaving a country that is still perilously weak, divided and violent. Little wonder that some Iraqis now don’t want them to go
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 20/08/2010
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)-University of London offers a one-year course in beginners and advanced spoken and written Kurdish-Kurmanji, at SOAS Language Centre in London. If you are interested
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- ABC News - By Rachel Carbonell
- 20/08/2010
Victoria's Kurdish community has expressed shock and disbelief after a series of anti-terrorism raids in Melbourne yesterday morning.
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Norway-based oil company DNO International ASA (DNO.OL: Quote) is selling enough oil inside Iraqi Kurdistan to stay afloat even without the central government's permission to export, the company said on Wednesday.
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- By Daniel Steinvorth and Yassin Musharbash-Spiegel Online
- 13/08/2010
German experts have confirmed the authenticity of photographs that purport to show PKK fighters killed by chemical weapons. The evidence puts increasing pressure on the Turkish government,which has long been suspected of using such weapons against Kurdish
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- Kurdish Human Rights Action Group (KHRAG)
- 10/08/2010
Not even during apartheid when we were fighting the racists and those who were oppressing black people in South Africa did our Embassy here in London or anywhere else in the world refuses to receive letters. The letter from Archbishop Tutu
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- ANF News Agency
- 05/08/2010
Dersim public prosecutor office launched a criminal investigation against the mayor of Diyarbakir over his speech on Democratic Autonomy for Kurdistan. Osman Baydemir, the mayor of the biggest Kurdish city in Turkey, Diyarbakir
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- Owen Bowcott and Natalie Hanman-The Guardain
- 02/08/2010
The 27-year-old Iraqi Kurd, classified by the local refugee centre as a "destitute asylum-seeker" and in a fraying relationship with the mother of his two children, had lost the legal aid he needed to pursue his application to remain in the UK.
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- Bloomberg - By Obiko Pearson
- 02/08/2010
Reliance Industries Ltd., owner of the world’s largest refining complex, plans to advance exploration at two oil blocks in Kurdistan this year.
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- Human Rights Watch
- 30/07/2010
The Iranian Judiciary should provide urgent medical care to Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand and free him from his unfair detention, Human Rights Watch said today.Kaboudvand, a leading advocate of Kurdish rights in Iran is serving an 11-year sentence
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- Los Angeles Times-By Asso Ahmed and Ned Parker
- 28/07/2010
The deaths of two Kurdish reporters in northern Iraq in the last two years has prompted charges that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdistan region, long hailed as the country's success story, are complicit in the intimidation of journalists.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Maya Ehmed
- 22/07/2010
Alawites are accused of many things; for example, some Shiites describe Alawism as being excessive while some Sunnis accuse it of being an esoteric sect that conceals its true beliefs.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By David Shemoil
- 22/07/2010
Just like their Kurdish cousins in Iraq, Kurds in Syria, Turkey and Iran are entitled to enjoy some degree of autonomy or self-determination.
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Government officials have said that the fault was electrical, and that some 14 foreigners lost their lives in the occurrence, whilst it is believed that some 40 people were badly wounded and injured as the fire spread through the five-star Soma Hotel.
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- Committee to Protect Journalists
- 15/07/2010
Shwan Ahmed, a freelance Iraqi journalist, is facing criminal defamation charges based on a series of articles he wrote alleging corruption in Sulaimaniyah, in northeastern Iraq. Ahmed told CPJ he was threatened by one of the parties in the case.
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- Human Rights Organisation of Kurdistan
- 15/07/2010
This morning (15 July 2010) Muhamad Sediq Kaboudvan, the head of Human Rights Organisation of Kurdistan, was taken to the medical facility at Evin Prison after he passed out in section 350 of this prison.
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- Working Lives Research Institute
- 12/07/2010
Images of working lives is an exhibition held as part of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project conducted by Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 12/07/2010
Kurdish American Education Society (KAES) is deeply saddened by the death of Dr. Vera Saeedpour on May 30 in New York.
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- The New York Times
- 09/07/2010
A senior Kurdish government official said that the benefits from a business he described as “elaborate” and “huge” went to the region’s two governing parties and affiliated companies, and that officials and politicians in Baghdad were involved as well.
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