: In Focus :

  • Ahmadi Khani’s Theory of Kurdish Nationalism in Mem û Zin
  • Turkey: A midwife for a Kurdish state?
  • The Kurds and Turkey
  • Corruption scandals threaten to destabilise Iraqi Kurdistan
  • In support of hunger strikers of Strasburg - France
  • Open Letter from Nawshirwan Mustafa to Gorran’s Parliamentarians in Kurdistan Parliament
  • Nawshirwan Mustafa: The Kurdish House Will Not Be Put in Order Through Social Niceties
  • The 7th London Kurdish Film Festival
  • To fight corruption, Barzani needs to clean house
  • "My struggle of decades was in vain" – An objection to and an obituary for an old Austrian Kurd
  • Bechtyar Ali in a Seminar in London
  • About the Crisis in Kurdistan
  • Dr. Shaho Saeed: The ruling parties of the region have frankly declared that they have no proposals for reforms in Kurdistan
  • Nawshirwan Mustafa: “The political language that this lot have used on this occasion indeed betrays regressive political thinking"
  • Statement by Gorran Movement about the Current Situation in Kurdistan – Iraq
  • What did the Kurdistan Regional President say?
  • Remarks to Lvin magazine seminar
  • Free Habibollah Latifi! Solidarity with students in Iran!
  • Kurdish student's execution halted in Iran: lawyer
  • Talabani: China’s “Special” Friend

Seminar: Democratization in Syria, Perspectives and prospects, Syria and Kurds at the Crossroads of Change

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 25/09/2012
Hosted by the Kurdish American Education Society-LA and co-sponsored by various departments and programs at California State University, Long Beach and Kurdish Community of Southern California View Article

Steps to democratise and prosper Kurdistan

  • The Kurdistan Democratic Alliance
  • 25/09/2012
For Kurdish political leadership to be able to grasp such historical opportunity, it needs to take courageous steps in modernising all aspects of the society for which, no doubts, they are not ready or capable. View Article

Trials and Tribulations in Turkey

  • KurdishMedia.com - By David Morgan
  • 25/09/2012
Turkey’s lamentable human rights record and, in particular its attempts to intimidate independent Kurdish organisations through mass show trials, was the theme of an important seminar held by Peace in Kurdistan on 18 September in Garden Court Chambers. View Article

Public meeting: Mass Political show trials in Turkey

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 16/09/2012
Obsessively sensitive about its image, Turkey seeks to present a modern, liberal and democratic face to the outside world, but the reality for people involved in public life inside the country is far different. View Article

Behind the Veil of Turkey’s “Zero Problem” Policy

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Ardishir Rashidi Kalhur
  • 13/09/2012
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. We humans often learn from the devastating effects of natural disasters and come back to rebuild stronger, so we may be better prepared to survive in the wake of the next disaster View Article

Eradicate the spirit of the 31st August, 1996

  • Kurdistan Democratic Alliance
  • 30/08/2012
Baath regime realized very soon, the deep hatred shared by both men, Mr. Jalal Talebani, who was considered to be close to Teheran, and Mr Massoud Barzani, who was judged as eagerly inclined to Baghdad. View Article

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Ahmadi Khani’s Theory of Kurdish Nationalism in Mem û Zin

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
  • 29/08/2012
Mem u Zin which is a marvellous dramatization of Kurdish country, culture and way of life, the character of Kurdish men and women and Kurdish issues and aspirations. View Article

Kurdish Autonomy in Syria, Political Opportunity or Peril

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Amir Sharifi
  • 02/08/2012
While terrifying news of Syria hover over the globe and eyes are transfixed on the gruesome news, Kurds have liberated some towns in north east Syria in the void left by the Syrian security forces View Article

KNC-North America: We encourage a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue in Turkey

  • KNC-North America
  • 23/07/2012
We urge the US President Obama’s administration, Congress and Senate, and the American civil society and media not to stand idly by in regards to Turkey's gross human rights violations against the Kurdish people in Turkey. View Article

Open Letter to human rights organisation regarding Kurdish rights activists censored

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Jihan Muhamad
  • 21/07/2012
Both Kurds and non-Kurds use social media as an active base to raise awareness about the Kurdish cause. View Article

Kemalism Replaced by Gülenism in Turkey

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
  • 12/07/2012
A man-made system or revolution lasts as long as its master lives; when the man dies, the system dies with the man. View Article

Iraqi Media Monitoring project coverage of Gender and Human rights Issues

  • Kurdish Institute for Elections
  • 06/07/2012
This report addresses the media coverage of the gender and violations against human rights comes at a juncture of history that all attentions are paid to the smooth progress of the political process in the country. View Article

An evening of Jewish Kurdish music featuring singer Ilana Eliya and Daphna Sadeh & the Voyagers

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 25/06/2012
A concert at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Road, London N15 4RX View Article

The Jews of Kurdistan: Lecture by Professor Yona Sabar

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 24/06/2012
Lecture by Professor Yona Sabar, Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic, UCLA and Ariel Sabar, author of My Father's Paradise View Article

Turkey: Ex-president's death suspicious

  • AP - Via News24
  • 14/06/2012
The 1993 death of Turkey's then-president Turgut Ozal is suspicious and should be investigated, a report by the presidential palace said on Wednesday View Article

Turkey: A midwife for a Kurdish state?

  • The Juresalem Post - By OFRA BENGIO
  • 13/06/2012
Ankara has willy-nilly helped the Kurdish genie escape from the bottle and it will be very difficult for Turkey to push it back inside. View Article

The Kurds and Turkey

  • The Economist
  • 09/06/2012
Massacre at Uludere The political aftershocks of a killing of Kurds still reverberate View Article

Iraq Kurds indefinitely postpone provincial elections

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 05/06/2012
Election authorities in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Tuesday indefinitely postponed provincial polls scheduled for September because of laws that restrict minority voting rights. View Article

Sale of Iraqi oil in May reached nearly 2.5 million Barrels

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 03/06/2012
The Iraqi Oil Ministry stated that during May of this year, Iraq exported 2,452,000 barrels of oil a day. The average cost of a barrels was US$105. The total income of oil in May was US$8B. View Article

Corruption scandals threaten to destabilise Iraqi Kurdistan

  • the Guardian - By Fazel Hawramy
  • 13/05/2012
Kurdish president Masoud Barzani has won international recognition for the region but has forgotten about reform at home View Article

How to end corruption in Kurdistan

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Heyrsh Abdulrhman
  • 12/05/2012
Corruption has greatly increased in Kurdistan for the past few years posing as a very serious problem. The governmental authority has not had a serious strategy to combat corruption and this has made the circumstances View Article

Open discussion on the “road map to negotiations”: towards a political solution to the Kurdish question in Turkey

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 10/05/2012
Kurdish question in Turkey Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 6.30-8.30pm Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3 View Article

Seminar: The Five Stages of American Foreign Policy toward the Kurds

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 08/05/2012
Date and Time: 17 May 2012 at 18:00 Venue: KLT, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG View Article

KNC-NA 24th annual conference

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 03/05/2012
Kurdish National Congress of North America invites friends of Kurdistan to its 24th annual meeting View Article

Will Gülen and Gülenists testify before the Prosecutor for Supporting the Case of the Military Coup in 1997?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
  • 28/04/2012
In 1996, a coalition government was formed in Turkey between Necmettin Erbakan’s Islamic Welfare Party and another center right group, the True Path Party, led by former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller. View Article

Iraq must share the F-16s with Kurdistan

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Amin Erbil
  • 15/04/2012
The KRG must put aside a percentage of the Kurdistan’s yearly revenue to equip Kurdistan’s defence forces with advanced weaponry, while the rest of Iraq was still lagging behind militarily. View Article

The Mayor of Sulaymanyah’s City dies in a security detention centre

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dlshad Amin
  • 15/04/2012
The mayor of Sulaymanyah City, Mr Zana Hama Salih, dies in a Sulaymanyah Assaysh Prison as he was investigated for corruption and nepotism charges against him. View Article

The future of Syria can be bright only with the Kurds in it

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Sahînê Bekirê Soreklî
  • 11/04/2012
The Syrian Republic that gained independence in 1946 did not offer the Kurds any rights as a non-Arab ethnic group but no major atrocities were committed against the Kurdish population View Article

Meeting with SPD group on the situation of Syria

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Society for Threatened Peoples
  • 10/04/2012
The situation in Syria was discussed with Mrs. Graf. So far, about 8,000 people were killed during the conflict which has now lasted for one year. View Article

Iraq: The next Shiite Islamic Republic?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Daniel Brode
  • 29/03/2012
As a conservative Muslim nation, Iraq is by and large opposed to Western ideals and movements deemed contrary or heretical to Islam. View Article

The new Turkey and Middle East: How to change and how to conserve?

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 29/03/2012
Venue: Room B102, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG View Article

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Nawshirwan Mstafa’s Nowruz message

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 23/03/2012
To celebrate Nowruz is to celebrate life, is to motivate us to continue with our struggle for the freedom of the Nation, for the liberation of land and the people of Kurdistan from the invaders and foreign, as well as internal oppressors. View Article

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In support of hunger strikers of Strasburg - France

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 22/03/2012
Kurdish nation has lived and still live a harsh and bloody history, the affect of that is seen in denial of essential political, cultural and humanitarian rights of our nation. View Article

Honoring World Water Day and the Arrival of New Year by the Kurdish American Education Society

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur
  • 18/03/2012
This March 20th marks the celebration of Nu Roj, the Kurdish New Year, it also happens to concur with World Water Day as was designated by the United Nations during a 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro View Article

Erdogan runs roughshod over human rights: He does not deserve the Steiger Award!

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Tilman Zülch
  • 16/03/2012
Presentation of the eighth annual Steiger Award is scheduled for March 17, 2012. This international award is intended to honor one who has shown remarkable straightforwardness, openness, humanity and tolerance. View Article

Why Did Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan Not Listen to Gülen?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
  • 16/03/2012
I was not surprised to see Erdogan’s and Gülen’s relation has turned sour. Gülen and his followers are opportunistic. They know how to use people and systems for their purpose. View Article

Nazand Begikhani wins the 2012 French Feminine Price of Simone Landry

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 08/03/2012
Kurdish poet Nazand Begikhani has been selected among 42 poets in France to win the French Feminine Simone Landry Prize of 2012 View Article

A visit to the Christians and other minorities in Iraq

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Sido
  • 23/02/2012
During my trip to Iraq in late January / early February of 2012, I talked to representatives of the Christian population in the autonomous Kurdish regions of Iraq and the Nineveh Plains. View Article

Rio+20, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Kurdish American Education Society
  • 23/02/2012
This year, on June 20-22, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), will be held in Rio-De Janeiro, Brazil. Referred to also, as Earth Summit II, it is a follow-up meeting to 2002 Johannesburg Summit in South Africa View Article

Conference of Syrian Kurds in Arbil

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Sido
  • 22/02/2012
A total of 11 Kurdish political parties and many independent representatives are organized in the KNCS. It is the councils goal to show the unity of the Kurdish population in Syria. View Article

A visit to the Barzan valley

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Sido
  • 21/02/2012
I visited the cemetery where the Barzani are buried. There are neither names nor birth or death dates on the gravestones. View Article

Pre-Newroz party in aid of the WHAM project

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 21/02/2012
The WHAM Project (standing for Wisdom, Humanity, Academic, Movement) is a volunteer run, non-profit organisation set-up in aid of enriching the education of children living in Kurdistan View Article
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