By Yara Kamaran Ismael: ‘Help Akre Refugee Camp’ is a fundraising campaign that seeks to provide the needy families of Akre camp in Kurdistan with hygiene kits that will last them for two months. Each kit costs approximately $6. This campaign is based in California and conducted by Kurds living outside of the country. Kurdistan…
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Rojan, Live in Concert, LA, August 2
By Dr Amir Sharifi: Rojan, Live in Concert, August 2, 2015, 7:00 PM Wilshire Ebell Theater 4401 W 8th St, Los Angeles, CA 90005 Rojan, the folk diva of Kurdish music, an impassioned singer, and explorer of different styles and genres of Kurdish and classical Persian music, and an advocate for women’s rights returns to Los…
What Yezidi Sex Slaves Need: Money, Immigration, Revenge
By Dr. Amy L. Beam: MONEY Many people want to help the Yezidi people who were viciously attacked, slaughtered, and kidnapped last August in Shingal, Iraq, but they do not know who to trust with a donation. I have sat in the tents and one-room container homes of many Yezidi women who have escaped from…
Domestic Workers in South Kurdistan
By Biryar Bahhaalddin: There are many different views about the domestic workers in Kurdistan. Are they workers or slaves? Is it process of hiring or of purchasing like commodities? Is it an ordinary matter or like going back to the slavery era of the Roman Empire? Some people claim that bringing domestic workers into Kurdistan…
Genel Energy Demands $375 Million From KRG
By Aland Mahwy: Ten days after the London court ruling against the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in its long standing dispute with Dana Gas, the Anglo-Turkish exploration and production company, Genel Energy, is demanding the KRG pays it, within one month, $375 million. On 13 July 2015, Genel Energy’s chairman, Tony Hayward, said his company…
The Case for a United States of Kurdistan, USK: Part 2
By Dr. M. Koohzad: PART 2 OF 2 Part 1 3. Kurdish-Centered Calls Kurdish nationalism predates Europeans organizing themselves into modern nation states. The uprisings for independence have their roots in the Ottoman Empire of the late 1820s. However, modern rebellions for independence began shortly after Ataturk founded his Turkish Republic and replaced the Ottoman dynasty….
Kurdistan’s Youth Are Migrating
By Meer Ako Ali: To migrate or not to migrate? This is the question more and more of the youth of the Kurdistan Region are asking themselves. Every month 3,000 people migrate illegally from the Kurdistan Region – mostly to Europe through Turkey – according to Iraqi federal estimates. Last week 12 young Kurds died…
Kurdistan Genocide Office Prepares Cases for Prosecutions
By Dr. Amy L. Beam: The Genocide Office to Identify Crimes Against Kurdish People Outside of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was established in Duhok, Kurdistan, in September 2014, under the Kurdistan Ministry of Interior. It serves Kurds, Yezidis, Christians and other minorities who suffered at the hands of the Islamic State jihadists (also referred…
‘Girls Should Not Shout!’
By Tania Mirza: “I am dead but nobody is searching for my murderer” “Who and what do I defend … For this dead body?” These are some of the sentences from a Persian movie that I watched recently called ‘Shhhh Girls Should Not Shout’. This amazing movie reveals the enormity of the many hidden social…
Yezidi Mass Exodus from Turkey Fails
By Dr. Amy L. Beam: On June 26, 2015, Shengal Yezidis from refugee camps in southeast Turkey, began a mass exodus to the Bulgarian border. They were hopeful of leaving Turkey and entering Bulgaria or camping out between borders to gain the attention of the international community. They are pleading with countries to open their…
Kurdistan’s Independence: From 4 to 1-State Solution – The Case for a United States of Kurdistan, USK
By Dr. M. Koohzad: PART 1 of 2 Introduction: The Kurdish political leadership in Erbil, the capital city of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, KRG, in Northern Iraq, was about to carry out a referendum to declare independence when Daesh, meaning Donkeys in Arabic, Jihadist terrorists – the so-called ISIS, showed up at their doorsteps….
Eyewitness: The Liberation of Tel Abyad
By John Hunt: Introduction Last week’s ISIS raid on Kobane, with the murder of more than 240 civilians, was a fiendish reprisal for the humiliating defeat the jihadists had suffered the previous week when they were driven from Tel Abyad by the YPG, supported by US air strikes. The Kobane raid began, probably from inside…
International Mobilisation to Rebuild Kobanê: Conference at European Parliament
KT News: Following the ISIS genocidal attack on Kobane last week, today’s conference at the European Parliament to discuss the rebuildng of the city assumes added signifcance. As Kobane’s deputy foreign minister Idriss Nassan has put it: “Rebuilding is another form of resistance to terrorism”. The conference is being live-streamed at: http://helpkobane.com/ The event will be…
Open Letter to President Obama on Turkish Complicity in ISIS’s Second Assault on Kobani
By Dr. Amir Sharifi: The following letter was sent to President Barack Obama; another version of it to to Vice President Joseph Biden: Dear Mr. President: We write to urge you to denounce the Turkish complicity in the recent attack launched by the Islamic State on the town of Kobani. Islamic State in its twin attack…
$7.3 billion on KRG fuel imports could have been saved with affordable gas: Luay al-Khatteeb
Interview by Harem Karem: Luay al-Khatteeb is a nonresident fellow in the Brookings Doha Center and founder of Iraq Energy Institute, focusing on the geopolitics and political economy of the GCC and Iraq. His experiences in the private sector span more than 20 years, and he is a frequent commentator on issues related to energy…
