By Rauf Naqishbendi: The current political, social, and economic state of Iraqi Kurdistan is disheartening, largely due to the corruption of the Talabani and Barzani tribes, who have monopolized power like despotic kings. Envisioning the future of Kurdistan, there is little hope left, as the Barzani and Talabani clans have not only looted the nation’s…
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What the US Should Do in the South of Kurdistan
By Arian Mufid: The situation in the South of Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) has reached a point where predicting Turkey’s next move is increasing difficult – if not impossible. It also raises a glaring question: why is there no intervention? Recent events have exacerbated the crisis: Turkey’s military actions, including an errant attack on Southern Kurdistan…
The Close-out of Ekurd.Net
By Rauf Naqishbendi: My dear friends, I write you this email regarding Ekurd.net. If you have visited this site recently, you would have noticed the headline “Ekurd Daily acquired by another Kurdish group from Erbil”. Let me say this is a meaningless acquisition for Ekurd.net which didn’t have an attractive value or revenue to warrant takeover…
Turkey’s Futile Aggression to Eliminate Kurdish Nation
By Arian Mufid: Earlier this month, on 15th August 2024, the Iraqi government and Turkey signed an agreement as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen collaboration. The agreement involves establishing coordination centers in Baghdad and Bashiqa near Mosul to improve efforts against the PKK. These centers will enable the two countries to work together more…
Kobani Trial Sentences: Democracy Slaughtered in Turkey
By Arian Mufid: On Thursday, May 15th, 2024, the North of Kurdistan woke up to the news that their leaders of peaceful democratic movements had been sentenced to years in jail, effectively condemning them to die in prison. The Supreme Criminal Court in Ankara issued several rulings against 108 politicians, including former HDP leaders Selahattin…
Paris Assassination .. of Kurdish Leaders
By Arian Mufid: France has been notorious for political assassinations since the 1970s. In January 2013 Turkish Intelligence plotted the political assassination of PKK leaders Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez in Paris. The three women are described by their comrades as remarkable woman who were incredible models for the woman’s movement in Kurdistan…
Erdogan Stands in the Shadow of Adolf Hitler
By Arian Mufid: Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, was in power from 1933 to 1945. He dictated Germany into the Second World War, during which he invaded Poland and committed the atrocity of the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were murdered. Before assuming his position as leader of Germany he attempted a…
Mazlum Kobane Speaks Out on Migrant Tragedy
KT News: A statement was issued by Mazlum Kobane, commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces, following the death of fifteen people from Rojava in the Algerian sea on their way to take refuge in Europe. He asked the international community to protect and help the self-ruled Rojava area in Syria, in order to ensure such…
The Influence of the Human Being on the Pollution of the Environment
KT Book Review: In the light of recent pollution and environmental disasters in the Kurdistan region, it is useful to visit a highly esteemed book on these issues by prominent Kurdish scientist and environmentalist Dr Sadiq Shex Muhaidin Barzingy. The book was published in 2021 and since, Dr Barzingy has been awarded an honours PhD…
Chemical Weapons: Kurds Demand the OPCW Investigates Turkey
KT News: Thousands joined a protest in The Hague yesterday, calling on the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), headquartered in the city, to investigate the mounting evidence that Turkey has used chemical weapons against Kurdish guerillas and civilians in South Kurdistan / northern Iraq. The evidence includes compelling video and photographs from…
Iranian Mullahs Should Face Justice for Atrocities Against Their Own People
By Arian Mufid: During the Second World War, Hitler’s atrocities were carried out by tens of thousands of war criminals and in the end some of them were brought to the Nuremberg court in 1945 and sentenced according to their crimes. The Israeli state later captured some who escaped justice at Nuremberg, bringing them to…
Iran United and Mullahs Falling
By Arian Mufid: The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) represents an Islamic model of totalitarianism and torture. Its history is littered with criminal activities such as assassinations and kidnappings of its opponents both inside and outside Iran since 1979. There has been little regard internationally for the regime’s persistent human rights violations identified by outside…
Turkish State Seeks to Annihilate Kurdish Aspirations
By Arian Mufid: As the PKK enters its 42nd year of guerrilla warfare against the Turkish state, Erdogan continues to use their resistance as an excuse to install the Turkish military junta in the Kurdistan Regional Government. 1984, 1986 and 1987 saw several attacks made against the PKK by the Turkish military. However, the PKK…
AKP Party and Kurdish Issue in Turkey
By Arian Mufid: During Erdogan’s recent US visit he addressed Turkish media outlets stating that there isn’t any problem in Turkey regarding the Kurds; “I’ve said this dozens of times before and will say it again: There is no Kurdish issue in Turkey. We are here to defeat terrorism in all forms.” Expanding upon the…
HDP MP Gergerlioğlu Still Detained, Despite Constitutional Court Ruling – Now His Son Arrested Too
KT News: Despite the 1 July ruling by the Constitutional Court of Turkey that HDP MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu should be released from jail, the MP is still being detained and today his son was arrested when police attacked a Justice Watch vigil outside the Ankara Sincan Prison where his father is being held. HDP…
