By Dr M. Koohzad: “Our movement and people are being destroyed in an unbelievable way, with silence from everyone. We feel, your Excellency, that the United States has a moral and political responsibility towards our people, who have committed themselves to your country’s policy.” Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani’s message to Kissinger, 1975. “Promise them anything,…
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Yearly Archives: 2013
PKK calls ceasefire
KT News and Comment: The PKK has officially announced a ceasefire. This move is a positive response to Abdullah Öcalan’s historic Newroz message calling for the conflict between Kurds and the Turkish state to be resolved by peaceful, political means. In a statement today, the KCK said that PKK forces will retain the right to…
Abdullah Gül – do we owe your state anything in the north of Kurdistan?
By Mufid Abdulla: Abdullah Gül, the President of Turkey, told reporters yesterday that he is concerned that Kurdish citizens in the north of Kurdistan aren’t carrying the Turkish flag during their Newroz celebrations. “We have sacrificed a lot for the sake of this flag”, he said, adding that Kurds’ disregard for the Turkish flag could…
An historic moment for the Peace Process
By Shivan Fazil Kurdi: Yesterday, Abdullah Ocalan made an historic call for a truce with Turkey and for a new era of politics between the Kurds and Turks. My take on the peace process in Turkey is that peace-making by its nature is not easy at all. The peace process cannot be achieved between politicians…
Öcalan’s historical Newroz 2013 Statement
By Abdullah Öcalan: I SALUTE THE FREEDOM NEWROZ OF THE OPPRESSED I salute the people of the Middle East and Central Asia celebrating this awakening, revival and resurgence day of Newroz with extraordinary participation and unity… I salute all the peoples celebrating Newroz, which is the daylight and turning point of a new era, with great…
Mem û Zîn Analytical Study*: 4. The form and genre of Khani’s literary work
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Chapter Four: The form and genre of Khani’s literary work Chyet describes Mem û Zîn in terms of form as “a long epic poem (2655 lines) in the Persian Masnawi style, characterized by strict symmetrical structure, each line…
Öcalan makes Newroz call for PKK ceasefire and withdrawal
KT News and Comment: As expected, a highly significant statement by the jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan was released today, as millions of Kurds celebrate Newroz. Calling for a PKK ceasefire, Öcalan declared that: “It is time for arms to be silenced and ideas to speak. The bloodshed is going on, giving harm to all…
Mistakes Turkey made in the post-Saddam era should not be repeated in Syria
By Kamal Chomani: After a long period of enmity by Turkey towards the Kurdistan Region’s de facto state, today they are best friends in the region. President Masoud Barzani was once just a tribal leader from Turkey’s political perspective, but recently Barzani made a speech at the ruling AKP congress and he was well received…
Objectionable words, acts of genocide: The hypocrisy of Liberal Red Lines in the Kurdish Case
By Melissa Seelye: Right wing conspiracists in the West pegged Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan as the ‘next Hitler’ some years ago but, with the PM’s ‘objectionable’ statement at the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Vienna on February 28 condemning Islamophobia as a crime against humanity ‘just like Zionism or anti-Semitism or fascism’, now Western policy-makers…
PKK should only surrender to lasting peace
By Mufid Abdulla: The big news is that jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is about to issue an historic message to the Kurdish people, which will probably call for the disarmament of the PKK. Although there is still no transparent and detailed agenda for the peace process – such as the one outlined in Ocalan’s…
Corrupt politicians have caused banking crisis, says PUK leader
KT Comment: Three days ago, PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) politburo member Mula Bakhtiar wrote an article, for his website and newspaper Chawder, identifying the main cause of the shortage of money affecting Kurdish banks and the crisis facing the Bank of Kurdistan. He blamed corrupt politicians who have been “hiding tons of dollars in their…
For Newroz
By Amir Sharifi: Rise, rise, rise, rekindle the Newroz fire on with the Newroz dance! “Dance, dance, dance” with your fast flying feet on the shaking ground On with the Newroz song! Sing, sing, sing till the Sornas of freedom resound Piercing the stark darkness of the night No ceasing till the tyrants’ defeat Bookmark on…
An Open Letter to the President of the United States
By Kani Xulam: “We are the ones we have been waiting for”, Barack Hussein Obama Dear President Obama, Like the sudden fall of Berlin Wall you showed up unannounced in my life. Like most Americans, I was not prepared for your spectacular entrance— exploding upon the national scene as the star-studded keynote speaker at the…
PUK will stand on its own in the next elections
KT News: At the latest meeting between the PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) and KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) politburos, these two ruling parties decided to abandon their electoral alliance and stand against each other in the general elections to the Kurdistan parliament. The decision followed recent speeches and criticisms, raised especially within the PUK, whose…
Mem û Zîn Analytical Study*: 3. Mem û Zîn editions
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Chapter Three: Mem û Zîn editions Although Khani’s Mem û Zîn was written at the close of the seventeenth century, it was not until the end of the World War 1 that it was first published. The first…
