KT News: The YPG (Committees for the Protection of the Kurds) yesterday won another major victory against al-Qaeda linked forces in Western Kurdistan/Syria when it succeeded in pushing them out of Kurd-majority areas around Ras al-Ain, a key strategic town on the Syria/Turkey border. “The (YPG) have taken over the Manajeer area, scene of battles…
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Yearly Archives: 2013
A Few Days Life of Revolution in Halabja: Introduction
By Yasin Aziz: Preface When Iraq was founded by the British Empire in the 1920s and handed to the Saudi tribal Arabs, it was promised that Kurds’ cultural rights would be respected, that they would enjoy a kind of autonomy and their local rulers would come from among themselves to administer their affairs. As the…
Iran: Don’t be fooled by Rohani – PJAK leader
KT News: The leader of PJAK (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan), the east Kurdistan movement with links to the PKK, has warned that the new Iranian president Rohani is taking advantage of recent diplomatic openings with the West to increase pressure on minorities, including Kurds. Abdul Rahman Haji-Ahmadi, the Germany-based leader of PJAK told…
‘Translation is Science and Art combined’
Interview with Muhammad Fatih Ghareeb: Interviewed by Aras Ahmed Mhamad AAM: How would you define translation? What’s the importance of translation in this commercial and technological world? MF: There are various definitions. Most of them are known to students of translation and translators. Here, I would like to define it from a day-to-day life of…
Some memories and differences between now and then
By Adil Sallih: Translated by Muhammad Fatih Ghareeb There were problems before I got employed. But our employment was the first generation in the Kurdistan Regional Government. It was in the beginning of Kurdistan liberation. The villages were being re-inhabited. The compound residences were being evacuated and people were going back to the villages. This…
KDP leader raises the Catalan flag
By Solin Hacador: The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) head of foreign relations, Mr. Hawrami,has shown his sincere respect for Catalan flags. Mr. Hawrami with Solin Hacador raised both the Catalan national and Barça’s flags at his office, based in Erbil city of Kurdistan, on 28th October 2013. It is very important to show respect for…
On the Kurdish Question
Interview with Muhammad Waladbagi, PhD Candidate: Interviewed by Aras Ahmed Mhamad AAM: How do you look at the Kurdish Question both historically and politically? What do you think is the roadmap to independence? MW: Well, this is a broad topic to cover in a single question. It is not easy to cover Kurdish history, politics…
Kurdistani police and children: Policing for future good citizens, not criminals
By Ala Jaff: While the police services in Kurdistan are moving at groundbreaking speed in terms of police ‘reform’, there is still much progress needed in dealing with children offenders and children as victims and in upholding their basic human rights. Equally requiring police attention is the issue of children as witnesses. Whilst one article…
Lives of two death row Kurdish political inmates in Iran at risk amid surge in executions
Press Release by Amnesty International: Two death row prisoners from Iran’s Kurdish minority are at imminent risk of being executed after the Iranian authorities carried out 20 death sentences over the weekend, Amnesty International warned today. “This surge in executions shows that behind words and promises, the Iranian authorities continue to rely on state-sponsored killing,…
PUK seeks to join ‘broad based’ Kurdistan Regional Government
KT News: At a meeting today the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) politburo agreed in principle to participate in the next Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Following the party’s big electoral setback in last month’s general election, it is reported that most politburo members present were in favour of the formation of a broad-based coalition government,…
Literary Criticism and Literary Critics
An Interview with Soran Fadhil Ali: Interviewed by Aras Ahmed Mhamad Part -1- AAM: How would you define literary criticism? What is the significance of this movement for the genre of literature? SFA: Literary criticism is a disciplined activity that attempts to describe, study, analyze, justify, interpret, and evaluate works of art. This discipline tries…
Kurds capture Iraq border post from jihadists
KT News: Kurdish fighters from the YPG (Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People) have seized one of the main border crossing points between Syria and Iraq from jihadist forces. The Yarubiya border post was captured after three days of fierce fighting with al-Qaeda linked groups. An Iraqi official told the Associated Press that the Baghdad…
Reality and Influence: Hypocritical Nature
By Ausama Anwar: The title seems to be very grand, mixing such important topics in one article. So I start by explaining the title and the concept of this article. Reality: It’s what we live in, it’s what we can’t escape, Even if we try, by getting into dreams and Imagination, we are still in…
Why won’t the KDP allow Salih Muslim into KRG territory?
By Mufid Abdulla: The progress in west Kurdistan over the last two years has been an outstanding part of the history of the Kurdish struggle. The west of Kurdistan is now largely controlled by the Kurdish people with some resistance from al Qaeda-linked fundamentalists. All along the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and its leadership was…
Facebook double-standard: ‘Bans BDP – but not al Qaeda’
Report by bianet: “We must use alternative means of communication. Political groups must form their own channels,” said the Alternatif Bilişim Association Chair, Keleş, reacting to Facebook’s decision to close down the page of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Istanbul organization. Keleş claimed that Facebook had double standards in practice, considering that it was…
