KT Special Report: The regional Iraqi Kurdish authorities have called on all the small Iranian Kurdish parties’ militias to withdraw from the peshmerga frontlines, reportedly at Tehran’s request. However, an Iranian Kurd volunteer-based united front militia, the YRK, has indirectly refused to obey the order. and is still fighting alongside the peshmergas against Islamic State (IS) terrorists….
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Petition: FIFA must strip terror-backing Qatar of its right to host World Cup 2022
By Mama Yara: Millions of soccer fans were dismayed by FIFA’s decision to hold the World Cup 2022 in Qatar. Kurds are also furious at FIFA’s backing for a state that has financed deadly terrorism in Syria and Iraq. We urge FIFA to immediately strip Qatar of its right to host the World Cup 2022…
What does IS want from Kurdistan and Iraq?
By Arian Mufid: As the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (IS) built up its strength, critically it sought to accommodate the Sunnis of Iraq. It found an increasingly receptive audience because the Sunnis were being repressed to the point where many of their leaders were being jailed or expelled from Iraq, as happened to Tariq…
Meeting between Yezidi leaders and representatives of the KRG
By Telim Tolan: On behalf of General Qasim Shesho, commander of the Yezidi Defense Forces at sanctuary Sherfedin and accompanied by Hasim Mir Tashin Beg, son of the secular leader of all Yezidis, Mir Tashin Beg, Telim Tolan, leader of the Central Council of Yezidis in Germany, has met today with representatives of the Kurdistan…
Kamal Mirawdeli to British Prime Minister: There is no crisis because it is our ISIS
By Kamal Mirawdeli: Kurdish writer Kamal Mirawdeli has written a strongly-worded letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron: In his letter Mirawdeli says: I write in these strong words because I have nothing but words and know that words weigh up to nothing in your wonderful civilized world. I am proud to be Kurdish and…
Yezidi Task Force reports dramatic situation in refugee camps: humanitarian disaster and ‘potential for mass suicides’
Press statement by the Central Council of Yezidis in Germany: Leader of the Central Council of Yezidis in Germany, Telim Tolan formed a task force with a delegation of doctors from the association “Kurdish Doctors in Germany” and a ZDF (German public TV station) camera team, travelling through the refugee camps in South Kurdistan since…
Hoping and Waiting Away from Home
By Shenah Abdullah: These days, one’s identity is of great significance and, wherever you go, people’s ethnic and religious backgrounds are emphasized. “We are Arab-Shabak and Shi’a from Telkif,” “We are Kurdish-Shabak and Shi’a from Bartilla,” “We are Yezidis from Shexan,” “They are Yezidis from Shangal” , etc. Each group and each family tries to…
Yazidi (in Kurdish Ezadi) Relief Fund
Press Release by Kurdish American Yazidi Relief Fund: Although Kurdish and international humanitarian organizations are ceaselessly continuing to provide food, clean water, sanitation and shelter for the tens of thousands of Yazidi (in Kurdish Ezadi; followers of one of the most ancient pre-Islamic religions in the world) refugees, the enormity of the calamity is too overwhelming…
YPJ Kurdish Women Fighters: A Day in Syria
Film by Rozh Ahmad: Women fighters of the pro-Kurdish Yekineyen Parastina Jin (Women Protection Units: YPJ) tell their stories about why they joined up, the experience of combat and what they are fighting for in this women-only militia amidst the civil war in Syria. KT Comment: This is Rozh Ahmad’s remarkable and moving short documentary about…
Wall Street Journal Distorting Facts Again about Kurds and PKK
By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D: On August 20, 2014, The Wall Street Journal carried a photo of the outlawed (in Turkey) Kurdistan flag atop Mosul Dam which was recaptured from the Islamic State (IS or ISIS). The WSJ has been reporting on a near daily basis on Kurds and Kurdistan in Iraq, more frequently in…
No reconciliation is possible with Saddam’s henchmen
By Yasin Aziz: Former Iraq premier Ayad Allawi has suggested (in an interview with The Times on 21st August) that at least one of Saddam’s old henchmen be given a place in the new Iraqi government as a gesture of reconciliation and an attempt to restore the discredited unity of a state torn apart by…
The Drug Abuse Threatening Kurdistan
By Mohammed Ismail: In recent history, the Kurdish revolution and involvement with the KCK (Koma Civaken Kurdistan – Group of Communities in Kurdistan) was the main reason that the Kurdish youth were sent to prison; now they face a new enemy that sends them to prison: drug abuse. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share…
Tragedy of Yazidis: Challenges and Directions of International Relief Aid in Kurdistan
By Dr Amir Sharifi: We still remember the ubiquitously ghastly images of tens of thousands of tired, traumatized, sunburned, bedraggled, de-hydrated, and beaten Yazidi refugees. The images are too haunting to forget: a mother still clinging to her dead child, tears streaming down the cheeks of a young daughter, a woman telling the shocking tale…
PKK Refugees Arrested at Turkish Border while Roboski Kurds Welcome Refugees
By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D: On August 11, 2014, Today’s Zaman reported that 6 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members “escaped” from the PKK and entered into Turkey at the Harbur border gate, south of Silopi, where they “turned themselves in”. According to an unnamed security officer interviewed on August 15, the six men are being…
Current Affairs in Kurdistan
By Dr. Sherzad Al-Khalifa: There are a great deal of events happening in the whole region and very fast. Of course most people from the Middle East unfortunately believe in conspiracy theories and read about the events that they face either as fate (God’s doing!) – therefore, nothing can be done about it – or…
