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By Hawkar Jabbar Kandinawy: After September 11th 2001, a war was declared against terrorism, in which al-Qaida represented terrorism. What al-Qaida in the past wanted to gain in the Middle East, ISIS is gaining today. It is establishing a caliphate in the Middle East. By having a ‘heaven’, it has ground from which to strengthen…
By Payraw Anwar: Nothing worth speaking of was achieved during the past ten years of Maliki’s rule. Nothing changed politically except for increased tensions and crises. Maliki was clever at causing crises and creating dilemmas for all sides in Iraq. Throughout his tenure there have always been bad relations between the Kurds and Arabs, and…
By Solin Hacador: The human tragedy in Southern Kurdistan is increasing and it demands more international help. Following Friday’s massacre of Yezidi Kurds in Kocho village of Shengal , there are reports of 300 more civilians killed yesterday by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists and many are still trapped on the mountain. This can be…
By Arian Mufid: This week Haider Abadi was endorsed by the Iraqi parliament as the new prime minister of Iraq. Mr Abadi is a Shia from the Dawa Party, the same party as the former premier, Nuri Maliki. He has an educated background and did most of his postgraduate studies in the UK. Kurds have…
By Arian Mufid: The night of 2nd-3rd August was one we should have anticipated: when the Kurdish nation suffered at the hands of people who have the same roots as the perpetrators of the Anfal of 1988, which was comparable to the Jewish Holocaust. On that dreadful, recent night when the Islamic State (IS) attacked Sinjar, no…
By Sen. Conrad Burns (Ret.): This article first appeared on CNN World In his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan laid out his vision for re-establishing the United States as an “exemplar of freedom and a beacon of hope for those who do not now have freedom.” This was hardly a new concept in 1981, yet as…
KT News: The ‘Islamic State’ group (IS, also known as ISIS) has been accused by senior United Nations (UN) representatives of systematic sexual violence and child abuse, among its other barbaric acts, in Iraq and Kurdistan.“We are gravely concerned by continued reports of acts of violence, including sexual violence against women and teenage girls and boys…
By the KCK Co-Presidency: On 14th August 2007, our Yazidi people in the Shiba and Shex Khidir villages of Shingal suffered a bloodthirsty massacre in which 450 Yazidi Kurds lost their lives. We vehemently condemn the perpetrators of this massacre and remember with respect the victims of the massacre. KCK declared as martyrs those who…
By Freeyad Ibrahim: The terror organization , so-called ISIS, undeniably has multifunctional missions and tasks to achieve in the Middle East. It began first in Iraq. First: to be involved in Iraqi interior affairs and to impose a government to their liking, and that is what has happened recently. Second: to put pressure on the…
By the Co-Presidency of the KCK: Prime Minister Erdogan won the Turkish presidential election by a low margin over the voting requirement of 50%. However, Salahattin Demirtas, co-president of HDP, has been the main winner of these elections. Despite unequal conditions, impossibilities, inhibitions and suppressions, he has managed to nearly double his votes. He has…
By the KNK (Kurdistan National Congress): Download the dossier Introduction In this dossier we wish to share with you important information about the ongoing war in Syria and Iraq. As you will gather from this information there is a great war happening in the Middle East and especially throughout Kurdistan. The report also shows that…
Press Release: Demonstration called by the Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group and Kurdish Community of Southern California Time: August 12 / 11:30-3:30 Place: 1000 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90024 The immense suffering of the Yazidi Kurds has reached such colossal and unprecedented levels of death, destruction, displacement, and despair that is now being appropriately…
By Amy L Beam, Ed.D: Today’s Zaman, on August 11, 2014, reported that 6 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members have escaped from the PKK and entered into Turkey at the Harbur border gate where they “turned themselves in”. One might reasonably infer that they were arrested when their identities where cross-referenced by Turkish Immigration authorities…
By Shakhawan Shorash: The Yezidi Kurds (1), who have their own religion and faith, have always suffered oppression. They were on the verge of annihilation under the Ottomans and faced ethnic cleansing from the Arabization policies under the Ba’ath regime. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, they have been a target for extreme Islamist terrorists…
