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By Evin Cheikosman: Join the fight or lose the battle. This is the mindset that many Kurdish fighters in countries like Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and even Europe share. According to various news sources, hundreds upon thousands of Kurdish fighters are flocking to northern Syria in efforts to help battle jihadists besieging the Kurdish city of…
By Dilshad Hama: The recent American rejection of the Kurdish efforts towards independence from Iraq are mostly based on the vague idea that ‘a unified Iraq is a stronger Iraq’. The American justification has been spelled out recently by more than one person working at the State Department. I was wondering, did the Americans and…
By Dr Hawar Moradi: Through one moment to the next, through the darkness of the night, slowly but surely, the light of the day reaches it’s own beginning. The sun far away in the horizon rises after a full night’s sleep. The sun’s rays begin to shine softly on our faces, as if we were…
KT Special Report from Rojava: Local doctors and officials have confirmed that the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS) used some sorts of chemical weapon that instantly killed Kurdish fighters during clashes in Kobanê of Rojava northeast Syria. Kobanê Canton Health Minister Dr. Na’san Ahmed told KT in a telephone interview that seven local…
By Dr Sherko Abdulla: Translated by Kamal Chomani Economist: In 53 years the earth will have no more oil. A Kurd: OMG, that means for the next 53 years Ashti Hawrami will remain as Minister.
By Rahy Rahber: The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its president are advising for an independent Kurdish state. The dream Kurdish history has longed for. Nevertheless, as times passes, the unity of the Kurds passes too. Undoubtedly, all the Kurds long for an independent state. Yet, according to the politics played by the political parties…
By Alan Cleveland: A Letter from America History is full of unifying moments. People with whom we might disagree on nearly everything from politics to religion, can, and occasionally do become allies where the more imminent threat comes from a single source that is more villainous than either of the others involved. One example of…
By Kaziwa Salih: The Middle East, particularly Iraq and Syria, has turned into a triangle battlefield, amongst fanatical groups with diverse titles and similar aims: creating an Islamic state with Stone Age approaches. There are two tyrannical Governments completing this dimension which are Iraq and Syria. The Peshmarga of Kurdistan is the only force defending…
By the KCK Co-Presidency: To Our Peoples and the Public Opinion The Rojava revolution is the revolution of the entire Kurdistan. Kobani is the heart of the Rojava revolution. The attack on Kobani by ISIS gangs and forces behind it is in fact an attack on the whole people of Kurdistan. These attacks can be…
By Zakarya Khezeryan: Heralded as the ‘prophet of peace and freedom,’ Adbul Rahman Ghassemlou (A.R.G) was a man of words, action and wisdom far beyond his years. His message, persona and name resonate with every peace and freedom-loving individual that has come to know him. Many know of Ghassemlou the man, the leader, but very…
By Shakhawan Shorash: As I have pointed out in several articles, the rebuilding process of the Iraqi state has failed because it did not address critical questions and key problems, and because the reconstruction program was imposed on the Iraqis without including the right to choose alternatives. The element of imposition, and the arrogance of…
By Rebwar Rashed: President Carter spent New Year’s Eve in 1977 with the Shah and toasted Iran as “an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world”. Less than two years later came the so-called Iranian Revolution. Iran was not as stable as the Carter administration thought. On 4th November,…
KT report from Rojava: ISIS militants are suspected of using a “chemical weapon” in yesterday’s onslaught on the besieged Kurdish city of Kobanê in Rojava, northeast Syria. Wedat Muhammad, a Kurdish journalist now in Kobanê, told KT in a telephone interview that ISIS killed 6 Kurdish fighters of the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) yesterday, but post-mortem examinations…
KT News: Since 2nd July Kurd forces have fiercely resisted an offensive waged by ISIS jihadists in the canton of Kobanê, the central of three autonomous Rojava cantons, targeting the strategically important Kobanê city. According to a statement by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), yesterday 16 Kurdish fighters were killed in the northeastern part…
