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

  • 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 View Article

Iraq's uncertain future: The reckoning

  • The Economist
  • 01/09/2010
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 View Article

Kurmanji dialect course at SOAS

  • 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 View Article

Kurdish community denies terrorism links

  • 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. View Article

Kurdish sales ease DNO's pain as it waits to export

  • Reuters
  • 19/08/2010
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. View Article

Shocking Images of Dead Kurdish Fighters: Turkey Accused of Using Chemical Weapons against PKK

  • 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 View Article

Press release: Turkish embassy refuses letter from Archbishop Tutu

  • 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 View Article

Kurdish Mayor prosecuted over his speech on Autonomy in Turkey

  • 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 View Article

Asylum seeker takes his own life after losing legal aid

  • 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. View Article

Reliance Plans to Advance Kurdistan Oil Exploration This Year

  • 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. View Article

Iran: Release and Provide Urgent Medical Care to Jailed Activist

  • 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 View Article

Journalists complain of intimidation in Iraqi Kurdistan

  • 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. View Article

Alawite Kurds in Syria: Ethnic discrimination and dectarian privileges

  • 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. View Article

Kurds in Syria deserve self-determination

  • 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. View Article

A hotel in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya caught fire

  • Prashant Bhatt
  • 16/07/2010
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. View Article

Freelance journalist sued and allegedly threatened in Iraq

  • 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. View Article

Kaboudvan in critical condition in Evin Prison in Tehran

  • 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. View Article

Images of working lives: Experiences of Kurdish migrants in London

  • 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 View Article

Memorial Celebration in Honor of Dr. Vera Seedpour

  • 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. View Article

Smugglers in Iraq Blunt Sanctions Against Tehran

  • 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. View Article