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By Sabir Hasan Birot: This article was first published in ‘The Linguist’ A Kurdish interpreter faces many challenges; if they are working with asylum-seekers, they are confronted with many more. One of the first issues is likely to be that Kurdish is a multidialectal language. Kurmanji, Sorani, Bahdini and Zazaki are the four major dialects….
KT News: Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş condemned Turkey’s AKP government on two key issues at a press conference on Friday, reports Radikal and bianet. First, he denounced the AKP’s continued refusal to allow Kurds to be educated in Kurdish: “The Constitution Resolution Commission took 1982 Constitution as basis for its new…
By Aras Ahmed Mhamad: August 28th marked the first day of the election campaign in South Kurdistan for 111 parliament seats, which will continue until 48 hours before the election on September 21st. There are 2,803,000 eligible voters in all the three cities of Hawler, Slemani, and Duhok. Additionally, the provincial election is to be…
By Eric Bruneau: The Syrian crisis has seen two opposite forces competing for the country’s Kurdish-populated provinces. The Syrian branch of the PKK, the PYD, established itself as the only power there, using its armed wing to quell dissent; and the Kurdish National Congress, a coalition of the other Syrian Kurd political parties, created in…
By Wayne Lavender, Ph.D: Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. With a combined population of 30 – 40 million persons, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group on the planet without their own nation. Persecuted for centuries, their dream of an independent nation was shattered in the chaotic period following WWI when British-drawn boundaries split the Kurdish people between…
Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim: In 1945 . USA dropped A-bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And he won the war. And the international community had condemned it Indifferently. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: This is the text of a – still very relevant – letter on Syria sent by Kurdish writer Dr Kamal Mirawdeli to the British Prime Minister David Cameron on 8th February 2013. Dear Sir, Kurdish People in Syria and Turkey I am writing to express my deep concern about the continued…
By Mufid Abdulla: The political campaign for seats in the Kurdistan parliament has begun. For the second time since 2009, Kurdistan will go thorough the most intense competition between three main rivals – the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and Gorran (a breakaway from the PUK). But this election…
KT News: PKK leader Cemil Bayık has told the BBC Turkish service that the PKK will suspend its withdrawal of guerrilla forces across the Turkish border unless the AKP government begins by Sunday to take the steps that were promised as part of the second phase of the peace process. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook…
Poem by Abdullah Pasheew: Translation from Arabic by Freeyad Ibrahim When a delegation goes… to a certain place… He places a wreath of flowers… On the monument of the unknown soldier… If a certain delegation would visit my homeland… And would ask me… Where is the Tomb of your Unknown Soldier…!? Bookmark on Delicious Recommend…
Interview with Pshtiwan Faraj*: Interviewed by Aras Ahmed Mhamad AA: Why do you think that the secular parties accuse the religious parties of being unpatriotic in national matters – and the religious parties accuse the secular parties of being enemies of God? PF: Last year I read ‘Iraq, The Borrowed Kettle’, a book by the…
By Saladdin Ahmed Kajarvzadî, PhD: On July 17, 2013 the New Yorker published on their website a misleading commentary piece by renowned Middle East correspondent Dexter Filkins (formerly of the New York Times) entitled, “From Kurdistan to New York” . The fundamental problem in Filkins’s account is the frame of mind in which he approached it,…
By Amjed Rasheed: This article discusses the current Kurdish domestic politics in Başur (South Kurdistan), the self ruled region, which has been influenced by regional politics, mainly Syrian and Egyptian politics. It discusses the negative effects that Kurdistan may get from the so-called Arab Spring, which has in my view become an Arab winter. Bookmark…
By Yasin Aziz: An extract from Yasin’s forthcoming book, ‘A Few Days Life of Revolution in Halabja’ Hawraman, Ballanbow & Shnrwie When Sajid was in secondary school, he wrote this: When the window of life was wide open before me in Halabja in mid fifties, I found myself on the high ground, standing before three…
By Ibrahim Anwar: Every state has been established by a power which can be called ‘Political Power’, but there is another power – Social Power – based on the citizens. Social Power often stands against Political Power so that, if at any time Political Power wants to move alone and develop an authoritarian regime, Social…
