KT News and Comment: Karzan Karim, an independent journalist who was working as a security officer at Erbil airport, was charged last year with divulging sensitive information to a third party and sentenced to two years imprisonment. Karim was jailed after the Kurdistan Post published articles in which he accused security agency authorities of corruption….
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Yearly Archives: 2013
Is it a trap? Playing political football with fuel subsidies in the Kurdistan Region
By Shwan Zulal: First published on Niqash High fuel prices and long gas station queues in Iraqi Kurdistan have led to calls for a government subsidy on fuel. But one industry analyst thinks that’s a terrible idea: And it seems as though not a day goes by when oil in the semi-autonomous state of Iraqi…
Erdoğan to brief Obama on Exxon’s latest play!
By Shwan Zulal: At the airport moment before boarding the plane bound to the US, the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced that Turkey has agreed a deal with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Exxonmobil for oil and gas exploration in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The PM only made a brief statement…
Mem û Zîn Analytical Study*: IV – Analytical reading of Mem û Zîn as a Tragedy
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ PART IV: Introduction As already mentioned, the drama of Mem û Zîn starts with a prologue in which Khani critically depicts his consciously-constructed literary-national-philosophical enterprise. He is aware of his project, asserts its innovative character, being first a text…
First PKK group completes withdrawal, everyone excited
By Çiçek TAHAOĞLU, bianet: The first group of PKK guerrillas – 7 men and 6 women – arrived at South Kurdistan Media Defense Area along with journalists Hasan Cemal and Erdal Er. 13 PKK guerrillas who headed from Turkey’s Beytüşşebap district arrived at Heror in Metina region, South Kurdistan at 6:25 am local time. The…
8th London Kurdish Film Festival: Call for submissions
By LKFF: We are happy to announce that the 8th London Kurdish Film Festival will be held this year from 15th-24th November. The main venue for the festival will be the state-of-the-art PictureHouse Hackney. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Parwaz Hussain – ambassador for the Kurds
By Mufid Abdullah: It is some achievement when Parwaz Hussain, from the south of Kurdistan, can attract 3.5 million people from the Arab world to listen to her wonderful singing – even though she sings in Kurdish. With the support of just her husband, this young woman has reached the semi-final of the Arab Idol…
Ocalan v. Barzani: Two contradictory worlds
By Kamal Chomani: The Changes in the PKK’s Policies towards the KRG The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its legendary leader, Abdulla Ocalan, pose a strong challenge to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and its leader, Masoud Barzani. The PKK is no longer a party just for northern Kurdistan: Today it also impacts significantly on…
Lullaby
A Short Story by Ava Homa: Farzad Kamangar was an elementary school teacher, nonviolent civil liberties advocate and poet from Eastern Kurdistan who was detained by Iranian security forces in 2006 and accused of collaborating with Kurdish opposition groups. Charged with being a mohareb or “enemy of God,” Kamangar refused to confess in spite of…
Former adviser to President Talabani arrested on arrival in Turkey
KT News: Hatice Yaşar, a Kurdish politician who was forced to leave Turkey following the 1980 military coup, was arrested yesterday on her arrival at Ankara’s Esenboğa Airport and taken to Sincan Prison. Yaşar had moved to Sulaymani where she taught at the university and was also an advisor to PKK leader and Iraq president…
Mem û Zîn Analytical Study*: III, 4 – Mem û Zîn’s dramatic plot
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part III, Chapter 4: Mem û Zîn’s dramatic plot The most important primary element of tragedy as explained by Aristotle is its plot – with complex plots having a better chance, space and scope to create a more successful…
‘Western Kurdistan could be a model for a free and democratic Syria’, PYD co-president tells London audience
Press Release Salih Muslim, co-president of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) addressed a well-attended seminar entitled The Kurds and the conflict in Syria at the London School of Economics last Friday.[1] The LSE Middle East Centre hosted the seminar, which was chaired the Centre’s manager, Robert Lowe. Providing an overview of the latest…
With Abdullah Ocalan from Athens to Nairobi
EXCLUSIVE interview with former Greek intelligence officer Savvas Kalenteridis Interview by Noreldin Waisy: Savvas Kalenteridis is a blogger, columnist, and a former Greek intelligence officer. In this exclusive interview he talks for the first time about his travels with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned founder of the PKK. Kalenteridis accompanied Ocalan from Athens to Russia, and…
