A fiery sermon after Friday prayers in Iraq’s Kurdistan region sparked two days of violence as about 100 Kurdish youth burned businesses belonging mainly to Assyrians and Yezidis. The sermon given by Ismael Osman reportedly called on worshipers to attack a Chinese massage parlor, which was …
Posted in Assyrians, Civil Rights, Kurdistan, Yezidis | Tagged assyrians, Kurdistan, yezidis | Leave a commentI have recently posted another article from BBC about missing bodies that were found in acid wells. Those bodies belong to people who lost their life during the conflict that took place in the 90s between Kurdistan Workers Party (aka …
Posted in Democracy, Freedom of Speech, General, Human Rights, Kurdistan, Kurds, Nationalism, Yezidis | 1 CommentA new website and campaign, Alliance for Kurdish Rights (AKR) is an independent and self-funded project started by a group of students and youth activists who wish to campaign for change and address the issue of Kurdish rights in the …
Posted in Activism, Announcements, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Media, Turkey, Yezidis | 1 CommentFirst, thanks to Esra’a for inviting me to join this website. The Yezidis (“yuh-ZEE-deez”) are a Kurdish sect living in the Nineveh province of modern-day Iraq. Their religion is pre-Islamic and pre-Christian, yet it has absorbed certain qualities of both …
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