Contrary to what the Turkish government would like you to believe, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, was not born out of thirst for baby’s blood. No, the Kurdish guerrillas in the mountains of Turkey are not all callous sociopaths …
Posted in Kurdistan, Kurds, News and Politics, Terrorism, Turkey, USA, War | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, PKK, Turkey | Leave a commentLet us from the very beginning of this article state and ascertain that we live in the age of free information, where the Internet has connected billions of people to each other, making it possible for the individual to exchange …
Posted in Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Kurdistan, Kurds | Tagged internet, Kurdistan, Kurds | Leave a commentFrom the Kurdish Youth Festival Committee: Kurdish youth across the United States and from all over the world gathered in Washington, DC from January 6-8, 2012 to attend the highly anticipated third annual Kurdish Youth Festival. The three-day event offered …
Posted in Events, Kurdistan, Kurds | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds | 1 CommentDear those who celebrate the censorship of RojTV, When an entire people are systematically oppressed and marginalized, small actions to make their story heard can have dramatic consequences. Similarly, small actions to silence their voice can have dramatic and tragic …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, Iran, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | 1 CommentOnce upon a time there was a troll, Hans Christian Andersen wrote. This troll was the worst of the trolls, he was the Devil and the Devil had a mirror. It was a wicked invention; everything good and beautiful became …
Posted in Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Tagged Censorship, Kurdistan, Kurds, rojtv, Turkey | 2 CommentsThroughout history the kurds have been forgotten and stigmatized as having a high record of unemployment, lack of human rights and primitive education. To treat this misperception as Kurdish professionals we have a ethical & moral duty to represent Kurdistan …
Posted in Activism, Afghanistan, Awareness, Civil Rights, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Middle East, Youth | Tagged clean technology, Education, Green Prophet, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Middle East | 1 CommentA mere ten days into the new year the Kurds celebrated a victory outside a courthouse in Copenhagen. I was in school that day when I learned that the Kurdish TV-channel, Roj TV, had won its trial and retained its …
Posted in Kurdistan | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, rojtv, Turkey | Leave a commentThe death of a Kurdish youth in Harasta on Thursday morning and the injury of three protesters in Qamişlo were a result of the sniper fire of the Syrian regime, which has killed over 5,000 civilians since the start of …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Civil Rights, Demonstrations, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria | Tagged Alliance for Kurdish Rights, kurdish rights, Kurds, Syria | Leave a commentWhile we hear about the achievements of Turkey’s AKP government especially in the Middle East after the Arab Spring, AKP’s government internally is facing a real challenge after the further detonation recently in ties with the minority Kurds that are …
Posted in Democracy, Kurdistan, Kurds, Middle East, Turkey | Tagged AKP, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | 1 CommentLast year concluded just a few days ago and probably with a lot of joyous smiles on shining faces, champagne-bottles waiting to be emptied, fireworks in multitudes and some traditional new year promises each and one of us silently utter …
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