By Rescue4Children: Rescue4Children charity auction event will be raising funds towards humanitarian aid for refugee children and internally displaced families living in the various camps of Iraqi-Kurdistan and Syria Thursday 20 November Saint Mary’s Church – Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 9ES Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it…
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Category Archives: Syria
The Importance of the Rojava Experiment for West Asia
By Dr. Jan Best de Vries: The social and administrative structure in the three cantons of the secular, democratic state of Rojava in North Syria is based upon the participation of all its inhabitants, Muslim, Christian, Zoroastrian (Yezidi), Kurds and Arabs alike. The difference with Mr. Erdogan’s nearby Turkey is that the latter is an Islamic…
Turkey’s Double Standard Policy Toward the Kurds
By Shakhawan Shorash: Under the rule of the AKP and Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s leadership, Turkey shows itself to be a democratic state, a supporter of human rights, and a protector of oppressed Muslim minorities. Turkey has previously hosted the international peace conferences and the conferences of the Islamic Cooperation Organization (ICO). Erdogan supports the Palestine people…
A Forgotten Proportion: The Child War Victims
By Hanar Marouf: Whereas children must get worried about which toy shall they buy or which book shall they read, whereas parents should be busy with offering warm and safe couches, whereas winter and raining must be greeted optimistically without worrying, the Islamic State has led to people being perturbed and concerned for every second…
Forum on Kurds & the Political & Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq & Syria: CA, Dec 3
Location: CSULB University Student Union, Beach Auditorium, California December 3, 12 NOON – 3 PM The Syria-Iraqi crises are deepening every day as the Islamic State continues to expand its reign of terror in the changing political landscape of the Middle East, threatening ancient Mesopotamian religious and ethnic minorities with extinction. Humanitarian tragedies like that…
Correcting the Contradiction of the Obama Administration
By Rauf Naqishbendi: Just like individuals, governments are to be judged for their virtues and vices, for governments are a consortium of people. To this end, decent individuals are in the company of good societies, while corrupted individuals are settled in the company of perverted societies. In a sense, one can judge an individual by…
Democracies or Islamic States in West Asia?
Dr. Jan Best de Vries: Democracy is neither a guarantee for individual happiness nor is it perfect. However, as a polity it may bring political stability, long-lasting peace and economical prosperity to a country, because all its inhabitants have equal rights and, being certain of their constitutional rights, can freely choose their own representatives in…
Oil and Gas in West Asia
By Dr. Jan Best de Vries: The wars in Syria and Iraq are in reality just being waged for oil and gas. In 2011 Sunni Turkey and Qatar had agreed to build a gas pipeline which would bring natural gas from Qatar through Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Turkey to Europe. However, Shiite Iran and the Alawite…
Kurdistan: Why International Support is Crucial (Panel discussion with PYD & KRG reps, London 15th Nov)
By SOAS Kurdish Society: Saturday 15th November 2014 5:30pm – 7:30pm SOAS, University of London, Lecture Theatre G2 (details below) Guest panellists taking part in the debate include: Dr Alan Semo – UK Representative of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) Bayan Sami Rahman – KRG High Representative to the UK Michael Stephens – Deputy Director of RUSI Think Tank in Qatar…
What’s Life Like for Those Fleeing the Islamic State?
By Aras Ahmed Mhamad: An inside look at the lives of refugees and internally displaced persons in Iraqi Kurdistan. This article was first published by Fair Observer Iraq’s Kurdistan region is thought to be hosting approximately 1.4 million internally displaced persons (IDP) and refugees. This number is expected to rise due to ongoing instability in Syrian Kurdistan and Iraq’s Nineveh province, especially…
The Birth of West Asia
Dr. Jan Best de Vries: The terms Near East, Middle East and Far East are all European notions, coined from the perspective of the geographical position of Europe in colonial times. So let us, to begin with, henceforward speak of West Asia, Central Asia and East Asia. As for the borders of contemporary states in…
The Turkish Maneuver in the Kobane Crisis
By Ayoub Barzani: In a move that pleased the Kurdish nation on October 19th, 2014, the US military delivered military and medical assistance to the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the besieged city of Kobani via transport planes. The development caught many political analysts by surprise, especially after more than two years of American reservation…
International Day of Action (Nov 1): Save Kobani! Don’t forget Sinjar and the Nineveh plains!
Society for Threatened Peoples Press Release: The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) supports calls of the exiled Kurds and their friends in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia for an international Day of Action on November 1, as a sign of solidarity for the citizens of the northern Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani. On this…
After IS, Syria and Iraq
By Dr. Jan Best de Vries: What the month October 2014 has taught us is that, in the future, the three cantons of autonomous Rojava should not look for military or political support from or cooperation with their geographical neighbor Turkey. However, it is not unthinkable that (like the autonomous Kurds in North Iraq) they…
Turkey: The Cradle of Lies, Atrocities and Enmity
By Rebwar Rashed: The lying machine of Turkey has become an enterprise that is almost impossible to answer. It is enormous, professional and highly experienced. The conspirators theories against the Jews, Kurds, Armenians, Europe and all the “others” are not just polemics, but rather a method of work, a consciously chosen method, aimed primarily to…
