Rt. Hon. Dominic Raab MP Foreign Secretary Foreign and Commonwealth Office King Charles Street Whitehall London SW1A 2AH 7 August 2019 Dear Foreign Secretary, The Ilisu Dam: a critical juncture Over the past two decades, we have written to your predecessors on numerous occasions (most recently on 10 June 2019) to express our grave concerns…
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Category Archives: Environment
Call For a Global Hasankeyf Action Day on 20 September 2015
By Ercan Ayboga, Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive & the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement: We call activists, social movements and NGOs in the world to join an action day for the conservation of Hasankeyf and the Tigris River on 20th September 2015! Let’s protest together against the Ilisu Dam Project; one of most controversial ones in the world! On Sunday,…
‘HDP can help solve Kurdish problem in a democratic way’: Green campaigner Sevil Turan
By a KT Correspondent in Istanbul: While the pro-Kurd Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) hopes to make big gains in Sunday’s local elections in the region Kurds call north Kurdistan, in western Turkey BDP supporters are backing a new party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which aims to unite Kurds and other oppressed nationalities and…
Fuel prices prove what, if anything?
By Osamah Golpy: The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has reduced the price of oil by half, from 1000 IQD to 500 IQD (approx. 0.60 USD) per litre. This cut came just four weeks before the parliamentarian elections, set for September 21st. It has come under attack from the opposition parties, not on environmental grounds, but…
Kurdistan’s water goes to waste
By Mohammed Hussein: Iraqi Kurdistan is considered a rich region in the Middle East in terms of its water resources, but it does not have enough fish and local fresh food, due to a lack of investment in water and strategic agricultural projects. Kurdistan’s water has been wasted in many ways. The lack of strategic…
KRG to use water consumption meters to cut water wastage
By Nagham Haidar (Awat): The Water and Sewage Directorate of Kurdistan Region is planning to set up water consumption meters in Kurdish households to regulate water usage. “Due to the large amount of water wastage in the region, the KRG has dedicated a part of its master plan for 2014 to set up water consumption meters…
Public Health at risk due to toxic substances
By Harem Karem: KT Exclusive Today in Iraq, as result of oil extracting, 700 million cubic feet of gas is burnt each day without being put to good use. Recently Shell has entered into an agreement with the Iraqi government to trap the gas and use it either for domestic consumption or export. This project,…
Circle of Death: Water, land, food
By Mohammed Hussein: BARLOOT—Sitting on a plastic crate in his small wooden shop behind his vegetable stand of watermelons and tomatoes, Mohammed Osman Mamali lets out a deep sigh. Though he comes from five generations of farmers, none of the vegetables in his shop are his. They all come from Iran. Mamali was the last…
The Fragrance of Love in our Home: A story of a dreamful child and a tree
By Abdullah Mezar: The year is insignificant, but childhood memories of the wilderness in the vicinity of Amoudah, or Chul, as we call it in the Kurdish language, are still lingering in our minds. They will stay with us even though some memories are terribly painful, but even that pain has a different effect. Our…
‘From the Amazons to Hasankeyf: Damocracy’ – new documentary
KT News: A new documentary, out next month, makes the case against huge dam projects, such as the one in north Kurdistan which threatens to destroy the 10,000 year old town of Hansankeyf, one of the oldest continually inhabited places on earth. Film maker Todd Southgate travelled from the deepest corners of the vast Amazon…
A message for the caretakers of Kurdistan
By Bakhtiar Zuhdi: The clock is ticking. Kurdistan is on the map. The eyes of the largest corporations in the world are on us. Kurdistan is emerging fast. We must be ready for it. A decade of brutal repression and genocide may have left us with a culture of fear, uncertainty and lack of confidence, especially…
