“If Turkey is not able to solve the Kurdish problem, it cannot be the star of the region.”

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Kamal Chomani
  • 25/05/2011 00:00:00
Erdogan is not going to lose the majority. He is going to have the majority. He will survive. He will form the government. Lvin Magazine interview with Mehmet Ali Birand View Article

An Arab Spring ... for the Kurds?

  • The Christian Science Monitor- By Dan Murphy
  • 25/05/2011 00:00:00
Kurdistan's leaders behave much like the autocrats of the Arab world, and their own people have been chafing at their restraints amid the uprisings from Tunisia to Syria. The Kurdish government has met local protests with violence and repression. View Article

International redress strategies

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Barry A. Fisher, JD
  • 25/05/2011 00:00:00
It’s a great pleasure to discuss international strategies and introduce myself to the North America Kurdish National Congress having just returned from 10 days of North Kurdistan related meetings View Article

History of Southeastern Kurdistan and its impact on kurdish movement

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Aliashraf Mordai
  • 25/05/2011 00:00:00
Kurdistan is located in the Middle East with 2/3 of world energy which is one of the most important geopolitical regions. With more than 500’000 Km2 and a over 40 million population it has very rich in natural resources View Article

The prospect of democracy in the south of Kurdistan

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mufid Abdulla
  • 25/05/2010 00:00:00
The leadership of the KDP may not wish to change, but the people at the grassroots must be willing to change their leadership, if they see it as obstacle in surviving the KDP. View Article

Video: Kurdish children jailed in Turkey under anti-terror law

  • BBC
  • 25/05/2010 00:00:00
More than 340 children in the Kurdish south-east of Turkey have been given long prison sentences in the past three years. Most of them were detained for taking part in anti-government protests, View Article

Journalists and political prisoners face death in Iran

  • Press Gazette-By Fazel Hawramy
  • 25/05/2010 00:00:00
I have been asked to write 500 words about the plight of Kurdish political prisoners in Iran. The truth is I need 5,000 words only to describe the pain I felt when I listened to the wailing of Farzad Kamangar's mother when she realised her son View Article

Turkish and US Governments share crimes against Kurds

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dana Berzinjy
  • 25/05/2009 00:00:00
The Turkish and the US Governments share crimes, atrocities and genocide that were committed against the Kurdish people in Turkey in 1990, and at present. View Article

Why I would vote for Ahmadinejad!

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Hussein Tahiri
  • 25/05/2009 00:00:00
If I was an Iranian and I was against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and I wished for regime change in Iran, I would vote for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. View Article

PUK leader: Peshmerga will be sacked if not vote PUK-KDP

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 25/05/2009 00:00:00
Any military personnel who is in the [PUK] General Commander and vote outside [electoral] lists [not the joined PUK-KDP list] will automatically lose all their links with PUK.” View Article

PUK leader: The PUK leadership lost legitimacy

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 25/05/2009 00:00:00
Osman Banimarani, the member of the PUK leadership, told Hawlati on Sunday, that the decision of eliminating the reformist leaders is a teenager-decision. View Article

Kurdistan issues in press interviews: KRG riddled with corruption and parochial party politics

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
  • 25/05/2008 00:00:00
In an interview with Aso, member of the political bureau of Kurdistan Communist party (KCP) Subhi Mahdi talks about a number of important party and political issues concerning KCP and reveals some hidden aspects of the recent conference of the party. View Article

Kurdish lawmaker defends corruption in Kurdistan administration

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 25/05/2008 00:00:00
Masum relates corruption in the Kurdish administration for having centralised political groups. View Article

UN assistance mission for Iraq - Human rights report 1 March -30 April 2006

  • United Nations
  • 25/05/2006 00:00:00
In its Human Rights bimonthly report for March / April, 2006, the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) stated its serious concern at the scale of death and injuries in Iraq caused by ongoing violence. View Article

Iraq will take over full security within 18 months

  • AP
  • 25/05/2006 00:00:00
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Wednesday that Iraqi forces are capable of taking control of security in all of Iraq within 18 months, but still need more recruits, training and equipment. View Article

The ongoing racist attacks in Turkey

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Brahim-Xelil Siruci
  • 25/05/2006 00:00:00
Last month there was another fight amongst the students at Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ). View Article

About census conducted in US and Canada

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Anwar Soltani
  • 25/05/2006 00:00:00
Clearly, such a description denies the integrity of the nation of the Kurds and the reality of the existence of a land called Kurdistan. View Article

KRG appointed its first spokesman: Press Release

  • KRG
  • 25/05/2006 00:00:00
Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani announced that Kurdistan Regional Government has decided to establish a new post called KRG Spokesman in order to create an effective mechanism for communicating with the people of the Kurdistan Region. View Article

British MPs prevail in Football for Unity match

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 25/05/2006 00:00:00
Regent’s Park in London, the UK Parliamentary Football Club took on the Football for Unity FC in a friendly and exciting football match. View Article

Iraqis already frarustrated with government

  • IWPR
  • 25/05/2006 00:00:00
In the new prime minister's home province, people will await results before judging the government a success. View Article

Kurdish militants 'set fire to airport'

  • The Independent - by Benjamin Harvey
  • 25/05/2006 00:00:00
A Kurdish separatist group claimed responsibility for a large fire at Istanbul's Ataturk airport that injured three people, delayed international flights and destroyed the main cargo-handling building. View Article

New Iraqi passport has Kurdish script

  • IWPR
  • 25/05/2006 00:00:00
After a long discussion with the Iraqi council of ministries, it has been decided that the new Iraqi passport will have the Kurdish script. View Article

Iraqis already frustrated with government

  • IWPR
  • 25/05/2006 00:00:00
In the new prime minister's home province, people will await results before judging the government a success. View Article

The paradox of death volunteers

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Hawar Sarani
  • 25/05/2005 00:00:00
Magnifying the atrocity of suicide bombers, Arab Media pays no attention to the greatness of Iraqi security and police forces who risk their lives for saving the life of others. View Article

Keeping Sulaimaniyah safe

  • IWPR - By Frman Abdul-Rahman
  • 25/05/2005 00:00:00
Eagle-eyed residents get on the phone the moment they spot anything they think might be insurgent activity. View Article

Kirkuk disputes centre on oil

  • IWPR - By Samah Samad
  • 25/05/2005 00:00:00
The Kurds are accused of trying to wrest control of the city’s political affairs so as to win leverage over its oil. View Article

Turkish law to curb Kurdish rebel leader’s contacts with lawyers

  • AFP
  • 25/05/2005 00:00:00
The Turkish parliament passed a legal ammendment paving the way for authorities to restrict contacts between Ocalan and his lawyers. View Article

U.S. leads global attack on human rights - Amnesty

  • Reuters - By Jeremy Lovell
  • 25/05/2005 00:00:00
Four years after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, human rights are in retreat worldwide and the United States bears most responsibility. View Article

Oil route under constant threat

  • IWPR - By Nawal Athneel
  • 25/05/2005 00:00:00
The 1,500 strong team guarding Iraq’s oil northern pipeline say lack of manpower, equipment and training puts their lives in danger. View Article

IWPR’s Iraqi Press Monitor [24.05.05]

  • IWPR
  • 25/05/2005 00:00:00
The Iraqi Islamic Party has denounced killings of Iraqi civilians and security forces, in a response to a call made by government. View Article

Dissident conference on Armenian massacres halted in Turkey

  • AFP
  • 25/05/2005 00:00:00
A conference aimed at questioning Turkey’s official position on the mass killings of Armenians has been postponed. View Article

Proposal to divide Iraq into semi-autonomous states gains ground

  • Knight Ridder Newspapers - By Nancy A. Youssef
  • 25/05/2005 00:00:00
Iraqi leaders in the country’s southern regions are pushing aggressively to unite their three provinces into an oil-rich, semi-autonomous state. View Article

Mustafa Pasha Yamolki: his life and role in the Kurdish nationalist movement

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rebwar Fatah
  • 25/05/2005 00:00:00
69 years ago today Mustafa Pasha Yamolki passed away and was buried in the city of Sulemani, southern Kurdistan. He was a Kurdish patriot who led a court that sentenced Ataturk to death. View Article

Kurds sacked from Kirkuk TV by Arab settler

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 25/05/2004 00:00:00
Ghazi Fayisal, responsible for Kirkuk TV, started sacking the Kurdish employees of the station. View Article

The Kurds’ Angel

  • FrontPageMagazine - By Jennifer Verner
  • 25/05/2004 00:00:00
Ms. Jamieson began her special relationship with the Kurds in 1991, when thousands of Kurdish refugees poured into Nashville after the first Gulf War. The city`s 7,000 Kurds now make up the largest Kurdish community in the United States. View Article


Australian held by Kurds in Iraq

  • Ninemsn
  • 25/05/2004 00:00:00
The 26-year-old Melbourne man, of Iraqi descent, has been held without charge by Kurdish authorities in Iraq since February. View Article

Kak Naser: I would ask the Kurdish leaders to resign

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Ayar Ata
  • 25/05/2003 00:00:00
I do not think one can predict Iraq`s future. It is very messy and unclear at the moment. However, there is a chance for different View Article

Revealing the facts about the Kurdish Genocide: All part of the US occupation-package

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rebwar Fatah
  • 25/05/2003 00:00:00
Anfal was one of the methods under which the genocide against the Kurds and their identity was conducted. In seeking to erase the Kurdish identity by an Arab regime, Anfal became the identity of the Kurds itself View Article

Kurdish conditions for helping America to change Iraq’s regime

  • The Economist
  • 25/05/2002 00:00:00
FROM his compound overlooking Arbil, Massoud Barzani, leader of the stronger of the two Kurdish factions running northern Iraq View Article

Stop Turkish nationalism

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Nusret Ronai
  • 25/05/2002 00:00:00
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Local Municipality Elections in Iraqi Kurdistan Starts Tomorrow

  • KurdishMedia.com - By R. M. Ahmad
  • 25/05/2001 00:00:00
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BOOK REVIEWS: Holding the Zero

  • BANGKOK POS - By Gerald Seymour
  • 25/05/2001 00:00:00
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Why not an Independent Kurdish State?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rashid Karadaghi
  • 25/05/2001 00:00:00
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