The recent tension in Baghdad between Nouri Al-Maliki’s Shiite Iraqi prime minister with both Iraqi president’s deputy Tariq Al-Hashimi, and his deputy for service affairs, Salih Mutlaq, which both are Sunnis is highly connected with the regional tension between Iran …
Posted in Democracy, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Middle East, Politics, Regional Issues, Turkey | Tagged Iraq | 1 CommentIstanbul, Turkey- Dawn on Tuesday brought an unfortunate wake up call to many Kurds and especially to journalists as a wave of arrests across Turkey picked up 40 people, most of whom are journalists. The arrests came under the premise …
Posted in Awareness, Censorship, Civil Rights, Demonstrations, Freedom of Speech, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Tagged kurdish rights, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | 4 CommentsBelow are updates of the recent coverage from the Alliance for Kurdish Rights detailing abuse against the Kurdish people: Mass Arrests of Kurdish Intellectuals in Istanbul: My father-in-law was one of fifty people arrested on Friday morning, and while the …
Posted in Awareness, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Iran, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Iran, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Leave a commentFor TIME magazine’s world-renowned recognition for most influential person of the year, the international publication has selected a variety of people from all walks of life and asked their readers to vote to help them make their choice. Among the …
Posted in Assholes, Awareness, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Tagged Kurd, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | 7 CommentsThe site of Ziyaret Tepe is an ancient Assyrian provincial capital on the river Tigris in southeastern Turkey, 60 km east of Diyarbakir. As an archaeological site it is of exceptional importance, as it is a provincial capital of the …
Posted in Assyrians, Turkey | Tagged assyrian, assyrian rights, Turkey | Leave a commentLast week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered an apology for the killings of 13.806 in the southeastern town of Dersim, Tunceli, between 1936 and 1939. The apology came after quarrel or a war of words between Erdogan …
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Tagged erdogan, Kurds, Turkey | Leave a comment“We are so sorry for what is happening in Van” “Donate a Penny, Safe the life of one person,” these quotations are the words of Kurds from Northern Iraq to show their sympathy to their neighbor city, Van, endangered because …
Posted in Current Events, Kurdistan, Kurds, Regional Issues, Turkey | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Leave a commentOnce upon a time someone booed at me, I looked incredulously at my heckler but then I had an epiphany and the epiphany was this: To live is to be booed at. A Tale of Two Worlds The booing and …
Posted in Kurdistan, Turkey | Tagged Kurds, Turkey | Leave a commentI remember how relations between the Turkish government and northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) used to be. Both sides were ambivalent about how to deal with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and had to wrangle over the matter. But …
Posted in Civil Rights, Countries/Regions, Kurdistan, Turkey | Tagged KRG, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | 2 CommentsAfter Turkish military jets bombed the Qandil Mountains in Iraqi Kurdistan on the night of August 17 and the days followed intermittently continued, the long-standing Kurdish question in Turkey once more raises. Turkish military bombard has started after PKK’s attacks …
Posted in Current Events, Demonstrations, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | 1 Comment