The use of the word “Kurdistan” has once again become a matter of heated discussion in Turkey as the Kurdish people are increasingly targeted by leading Turkish political figures and the Turkish legal system. Most...
The world never talks about what Iranian regime does to Kurds in East Kurdistan, Iranian regime killed 175 Kurds in last 3 weeks in East Kurdistan, and threw 15 of them to lakes and deep...
October 22, 2019 The Vice President Old Executive Office Building Washington, DC 20501 Dear Mr. Vice President, I consider it my duty and my honor to serve my people through my writing as a poet...
Mazloum Abdi The world first heard of us, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), amid the chaos of our country’s civil war. I serve as our commander in chief. The SDF has 70,000 soldiers who have...
Kani Xulam Text remarks delivered on February 18, 2016 at the Woman’s Club of Roland Park, Baltimore, Maryland. We are all gathered here today, in safety and comfort. That is good, and we owe the privilege to...
Turkey claims that she does not hate Kurds but hate terrorists. This for many Kurds in Turkey would not be a true statement as they experience otherwise in everyday life. Turkey has used anti-terror measures...
The US will withdraw her troops from Syria. Will they really? – Let’s take Trump at his word, just for argument’s sake. Though in the meantime, RT reports that the withdrawal may be slower than...
More than 12,000 Kurds live in the camp, located on a slope of the Qarachokh Mountains. How they ended up there is a long and tragic story, which began in the ’90s, when Turkey emptied...
Matt Broomfield reports from Rojava Last night I slept in a Kurdish friend’s house here in Rojava. His daughter, brash and confident at 6, stood on a table and performed the songs she has been...
Ayse Celik, a teacher living in the city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey, will go to prison on April 20 with the accusation of “terrorist propaganda” for saying, “don’t let children die,” on a popular...