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Is Gandhi Relevant to Kurds?
To be sure, nonviolent resistance is not exempt from deaths, but when it is waged, its disciples are its first casualties and not the defenseless civilians who are often first tortured and then murdered on the flimsiest of charges. As Kurds, to persist on a path that is to our disadvantage is not only wrong, but also reckless.
Maliki is in Kirkuk, But Where Are the Kurds?
The Kurdish side has been treating the disputed territories -- that make up 43 percent of Kurdish land -- as if they belong to Baghdad. Yet the Iraqi constitution considers those areas “disputed territories.”...
British Ambassador’s Notebook: A Week in Kurdistan Region
Iraq over the last few decades has been broadly inward looking; Kurdistan which has had more than its fair share of isolation is now determinedly outward looking....
My Father’s Story: from Halabja to Nugra Salman
With all the hardship that he endured in Halabja and the massacre in the Anfal prisons that he witnessed, my father had hundreds of stories to tell. If he opened his mouth, terrifying stories of the lives of Kurds would come out. But he decided to remain mostly silent and died that way. He took the unheard stories of Halabja and Anfal to the grave with him. However, he always had hope about the future of his people....
Who is Denise Natali?
If you are scratching your head and wondering why on earth I would make such a claim, don’t. Just read her recent piece, “Coddling Iraqi Kurds,” in Foreign Policy. Though a bit convoluted, a careful reading of the diatribe makes this professional researcher a darling of the bigots in Ankara, Baghdad, Damascus, and Teheran. She says in English what they have been telling us in Turkish, Arabic and Persian ad nauseam....
The Minority’s Spring
We learn this to be an illusion, especially following the Arab Spring. Iraq’s liberation from the hands of Saddam Hussein provides the most telling example. The de-facto division of Iraq into different minorities—Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds—exemplifies the myth of the regions homogeneity. Especially in northern Iraq, the long-standing Kurdish minority sprung forward and demands its historical rights in the renewed wave of self-determination....
In Memory of Du’a Khalil
Women’s organizations around the world must not only encourage regimes and government entities to ban this practice, but force these bodies of law to implement an end to such a horrifying act of violence....
An Encounter with Barzani
There were other tidbits about little Kurdistan, but I am going to be picky for the purposes of this report. In America, he said, he was happy to meet with the likes of President Obama and conveyed to him our people’s unswerving commitment to the constitution of Iraq, which recognizes Kurdistan as a federal state....
We Remember Mustafa Barzani with Affection
Will America do anything good for Kurds? It may or may not. But if anything good is going to happen to Kurds, it may come through the US. I think it was Mustafa Barzani who formed this understanding for the first time? The important thing is to understand that by fighting the world’s leading power, Kurds will not get anywhere. ...
US Consulate in Erbil Lives In Ivory Tower
Passing by the U.S. Consulate’s compound in Erbil’s Ainkawa district, one only notices a highly sophisticated attempt at self-isolation. The consulate staff in Erbil seem to like living in their ivory tower, surrounded by anti-blast concrete walls and gates that would better suit a maximum-security prison than a diplomatic mission supposed to win hearts and minds. ...
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- Kurds Open Zoroastrian Temple in Sweden
- Plan B On Kirkuk for President Barzani
- Is The End Beginning?
- Iraqi Religious Cleric Says Women Not Allowed to Watch TV
Jay
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16/05/2012 17:07:07
This increase may look positive, but, according to sharia Laws of the country's constitution,Women are considered minors needing the permission of their male relative guardian ...
Jenny
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16/05/2012 16:45:22
Kurds in Iraq are treated better
halabja
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16/05/2012 15:22:09
Kurdistan's army is pashmarga forces. PKK is a self-centered militant organization working for itself only (not the Kurdish nation) and PKK does not hesitate killing ...
No-One
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16/05/2012 14:11:28
Only two points:
1. The article does not really "illustrate" how this relation has grown...very flashy title.
2. More importantly, why the heck opening ...
Mamo
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16/05/2012 12:49:48
No doubt, Kurdistanis and Israelis in the middle-east share the exact same pain.
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