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By Mohammad Pervez Bilgrami: Egypt’s first ever, democratically elected President Mohammad Morsi was ousted in a military coup on Wednesday, almost a year after his empowerment. The Head of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) and Defense Minister, General Abdul Fatah Khalil el-Sisi, who was appointed by Morsi, last year, overthrew the President. It is pertinent to add that…
By Dr. M. Koohzad: With a little knowledge about the Middle East, Iraq, and the Kurds, Robert Baer, the infamous CIA field officer and TIME Magazine’s online intelligence columnist, wrote a brief, dry, and unacceptable essay entitled “How to Handle the Kurds,” published in the October 2007 issue of this magazine. His column is anything…
KT News and Comment: Iran’s newly-elected President Hassan Rohani has defied reality by telling the Voice of Iran news agency that Iran is “not a multi-ethnic state”. “Iran is one nation and one region and we are all Muslim”, he announced, dashing any hopes that his new ‘moderate’ presidency will make concessions to Kurds and…
By Mehmet DOZ: According to several sources the term ‘citizenship’ is about the link between a person and a state or an association of states. It is a legal status in a political institution, such as a city or a state. The term nationality is often used as a synonym for citizenship but, in international…
By Kirmanj Gundi: The purpose of writing this letter to President Obama is not play a role of the Kurdish Ambassador. I have written to him before. However, this time is about the US policy towards the Kurdistan Democratic party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). The US government still has blacklisted the KDP and…
By Aras Ahmad Mhamad: Abstract This article aims to give a glimpse into the relation between translation and interpretation, with their similarities and differences. It will examine how a translated text faces problems in finding the exact equivalence in the target language. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe…
KT News and Comment: UPDATE: Later today the KDP and PUK MPs carried a vote to extend President Barzani’s term by two years until July 2015. Fights broke out inside the Kurdistan parliament today when the Speaker tried to introduce a motion – backed by the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union…
Book Review: ‘Dum Dum Castle’ is a novel by Yasin Aziz based on a well-documented account of a long battle in 1609–10 between Kurds and the Safavid Empire. The battle took place around a fortress called Dimdim, located in the Beradost region, near Lake Urmia in north-western Iran. In 1609, the ruined structure was rebuilt by…
By Dr. M Koohzad: Orientalism-Determinism: In this section both concepts of Orientalism and determinism will be discussed and criticized. Tribalism and Nomadism fall under a broader concept formulated in the previous century. Geographical location and being landlocked fall under a much older Greek notion of environmental determinism. Being a mountainous landlocked nation is not a…
By Aziz Sheikhani: The Arab world started to change and faced a new era on 18 December 2010. In some Arab countries, the people began to demonstrate and riot against their rulers. It was both violent and nonviolent and came to near to a civil war. This unique event was gradually named, by the media,…
By Solin Hacador: It is 88 years since Sheik Said (1860-1925), leader of the 1925 Kurdish Rebellion and his 46 adherents were executed by the Turkish state on 29 June 1925. 88 years have passed but we Kurds still do not know where is Sheik Said and his adherents’ burial place! This is considered a…
