Few people truly believe that states conduct their foreign and domestic affairs based on the ideals they pretend to espouse. For example, as the United States preaches about how lovely freedom and democracy are and how important they are to …
Posted in Assholes, Awareness, Civil Rights, Foreign Affairs, Kurdistan, Kurds, Palestine, Turkey | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, Palestine, Turkey | 5 CommentsBy Pia Sigmund Translated to English by Shilan Saidi Do you know the history of the Kurdish people? Here you can get a crash course! In April 2011 I visited the Kurdish region of Turkey. Here I met two spectacular …
Posted in Civil Rights, Foreign Affairs, History, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | 5 CommentsOnce upon a time, there was a strange town where everyone agreed to punish those who had dirty houses. A family just arrived at the town without having any knowledge of the rules and mores. At night, when someone came …
Posted in Current Events, Iraq, Kurdistan | Tagged Iraq, kirkuk | 1 CommentContrary 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 | 2 CommentsLet 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 …
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