Category: Minorities

Who Is The Terrorist?

Posted on by Xende Biradosti

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 …

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Why Kurds must defend the Internet

Posted on by The Zagrosian (Kurdistan)

Let 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 …

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Third Annual Kurdish Youth Festival Meets New Levels of Success

Posted on by Nuha Serrac (Kurdistan)

From 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 …

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Dear Those Who Celebrate the Censorship of RojTV: An Open Letter

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Dear 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 …

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ROJ TV in the Land of the Snow Queen

Posted on by Naila Bozo

Once 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 …

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Can you help Kurds to have a remembrance day for the Genocide?

Posted on by Laween Atroshi

Dear Friends of Kurdistan, I have set up an e-petition urging the British Government to recognize the Genocide inflicted upon the Kurdish population by the former regime of Saddam Hussein. If we get 100,000 signatures than they will debate this …

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First time in History the invisible nation: Iraqi Kurdistan nominated for UN Public Service Award

Posted on by Laween Atroshi

Throughout 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 , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

One Kurdish boy dead, mass arrests, and more massive protests in Syria

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

The 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 …

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AKP’s silent revolution has a blemish

Posted on by Abdulla Hawez (Kurdistan)

While 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 …

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Wave of Condemnation as Turkey Arrests Yet More Journalists

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Istanbul, 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 …

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