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Dear Mr. Manuel Valls: We members of the Kurdish Communities in Southern California are outraged, appalled, and anguished by the barbaric assassination of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan, and Leyla Solyemez, three Kurdish women activists in a Paris based Kurdish Center. The office by press accounts is called Kurdistan Information Center. The Kurdish media note their…
Press release: Saleh Muslim, co-president of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), addressed a packed room in Westminster on 3 December, at a meeting hosted by Jeremy Corbyn MP and sponsored by Liberation and Peace in Kurdistan campaign. The meeting brought together members of the British parliament, representatives of the National Coordinating Body for…
Dr Kamal Mirawdeli’s Memorandum to the British Prime Minister: His Excellency David Cameron, the Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, City of Westminster, SW1A 8th November 2012 Dear Prime Minister, Kurds in Turkey and Syria I am writing to express my grave concerns about the fate of Kurdish hunger strikers in Turkey’s prisons, the general deterioration of…
By Michael Rubin: On the evening of August 4, Kurdistan Workers Party [PKK] fighters attacked three military outposts in southeastern Turkey, killing six soldiers. The attack culminates a series of successful PKK operations. The Turkish military, its morale low after years of having its officers targeted by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his allies…
Call for support and protection of the peaceful establishment of the self-governed Syrian Kurdish region: The Kurdish areas in Syria, except from the city of Qamishli, have recently been liberated from the brutal Assad’s regime and are under Kurdish control. Consequently, we, the Democratic Union Party ( PYD), with other Kurdish political parties in the…
Kurdistan National Congress (KNK): Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has been forced to endure strict isolation and torture since February 15th 1999. The government of Turkey deliberately constructed a unique and elaborate prison on the island of Imrali to contain Ocalan. While the world is turning a blind eye to this cruelty, every kind of unlawful…
By ROZH AHMAD: This article first appeared on rudaw.net ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Organizers of the online e-petition campaign, “Support An Independent Kurdish State”, which called on British MPs to debate and support Kurdish statehood at the Westminster, told Rudaw that London-based representatives of Kurdish political parties and Kurdish businessmen had failed them in their…
PRESS RELEASE: The Hague / Slemani June 11, 2012 The silence on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the Middle East needs to be broken. To end this brutal violation of human rights that is systematically applied in the region, NGOs Wadi and Hivos are expanding their pioneering work in Iraq to eleven countries. FGM was…
PEACE IN KURDISTAN CAMPAIGN: Press statement, 25 May 2012 Peace in Kurdistan deplores the decision by the court in Diyarbakir on 24 May to sentence Leyla Zana to ten years in prison on charges of “spreading propaganda” on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). In our view the action exposes the utter hollowness of…
Michael Rubin was interviewed by Halgurd Samad for Lvin Magazine: HS: Could you tell readers the reasons for your first visiting Kurdistan and why did you leave? MR: I was invited to Kurdistan to teach in the region’s universities for the academic year 2000-2001. It was Barham Salih’s idea to bring an American to teach at the…
By Dr F R Hilmi: Only a few days ago I used the official public records to prove that British Democracy, if it ever existed, has been assassinated by the political elite and the establishment. Today I will show that this crime is international and has been the hallmark of the political gamesmanship passing for…
By Shwan Zulal: This article first appeared on Niqash The battle for Iraq’s oil goes on. Iraqi Kurdistan is intent on controlling its own oil, Baghdad is intent on wresting that control from them. Will the impasse ever be solved? Only if both sides see reason, one commentator argues. Ever since oil was found in…
PRESS RELEASE: Twenty Kurdish activists in London have begun a hunger strike today, Wednesday 14 March at 8am. Fedbir, the Kurdish Federation UK, will be staging the hunger strike on the northern terrace of Trafalgar Square until the 17th of March, in parallel with similar actions which have been taking place within Turkey and across…
FINAL DECLARATION We, the speakers and participants of the conference on the 8th of March 2012 on REMEMBERING THE HALABJA GENOCIDE AND THE USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST KURDS have decided on the following as our final declaration: Our conference was held on International Women’s Day (8th of March). All participants celebrated International Women’s day…
By Meer Ako Ali: From reports about the incident by his students, I gather that the pupil insulted Jeremiah and then shot him multiple times in the classroom after the teacher’s daily prayer. The pupil then shot himself in the head and died after three hours in the ER. This event came after a heated…
