By Junaid Aman (from Balochistan): No entity, group, nation or state whatever the basis for its creation or existence can have priority over the intrinsic rights of the people it integrates to itself for supposedly higher and noble aims. Impositions of languages, culture, ethics and values, however lofty in the eyes of the imposer, cannot…
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Category Archives: Independence
‘A More Perfect Union’
By Alan Cleveland: A Letter From America “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States…
Kurd independence referendum will go ahead despite US opposition, says Bakir
KT News: Foreign Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir said yesterday that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will go ahead with a referendum on independence even if the US government tries to stop them. “With all due respect”, he told PBS Newshour “it’s the people of Kurdistan who decide, and yes, we will go ahead.” On Tuesday,…
A Kurdistani from Halabja
By Paul Iddon – Digital Journalist This article first appeared on the Digital Journal The present ongoing crisis in Iraq has seen to the Iraqi Kurds assert their dominance in their region and even presented them with a chance for independence. But how much do we in fact know about the Kurds and their dreams…
The Time Has Come
By Rauf Naqishbendi: Soon after the American invasion of Iraq, Iraqi Kurds made their own bogus government representing a country that doesn’t exist on a world map. It is unrecognized outside its own boundaries and is internationally unrecognized. Moreover, this fictitious government isn’t what the Kurds have earned, but rather it was bestowed to them…
South of Kurdistan: Kurdish state history is waiting to be made
By Mufid Abdulla: If it wasn’t for Churchill’s UK election defeat in 1945, Indian independence would not have been realised two years later. As it was, at midnight on 14-15 August 1947, India gained its freedom and “the Union Jack, emblazoned with the Star of India, began its final journey down the flagstaff”*. If it…
Why an independent Kurdistan makes sense
By Mohammed Shareef and Janroj Yilmaz Keles: This article was first published by Open Democracy With the radical Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) taking over huge swathes of Iraq’s northern and western territory from the Shi’a dominated government of Nouri al-Maliki, the territorial integrity of Iraq is in question. These recent developments…
A Free Kurdistan
By Hawar Moradi: “The man is a bridge not a goal,” said Nietzsche. I say I am the bridge to my goal, a free Kurdistan. Neither do I feel like a nationalist nor a patriot at this very moment when I write down the word ‘Kurdistan’ but rather the feeling that there is something there, somewhat I have…
A great nation
By Alan Cleveland: A letter from America Dear Kurdistan, As an American I have been aware of you and your people for half of my life.Going back to at least 1988 and the notorious chemical attack launched by Sadamm Hussein against you.Sadly, at that moment in time, we were preoccupied with hating Iran for reasons…
At last, Iraq falls apart
By Mufid Abdulla: With the unfolding tragedy of Syria and the undermining of the opposition to the Assad regime by Islamist groups, it became plain that it was wishful thinking to think that ISIS, the strongest of the Islamist groups, would just fade away. In the past few days ISIS has made extraordinary advances within…
Is South Kurdistan ready for Independence? Global debate, 22nd June
By Karam Kurda & Hawzheen Babataher: We invite you to a forum, open to all the Kurdish community, asking the question, ‘Is South Kurdistan ready for independence?’ The export of Kurdish oil is the most recent act of defiance by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), largely applauded by the Kurdish people, in reaction to the…
Helly Luv ‘risks it all’ for an independent Kurdistan
KT Report: Kurdish singer Helen Abdulla – known as ‘Helly Luv’ – has received death threats from Islamist groups since the appearance of her debut video, Risk it All, which promotes independence for Kurdistan and shows her throwing a Molotov cocktail and dancing with female peshmergas. “‘Risk It All” means risking everything for your dreams…
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…
The obstacle to Kurdish Nationhood has been the Kurds themselves
By Dr Aland Mizell: With the PKK–Turkish government peace process once more sadly hanging by a thread, the Turkish media and especially the Gülenist media have already launched a pre–emptive blame game. We already know for a fact that Gülen and his followers never wanted the Turkish government to talk to the PKK or to…
