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...
As for the future of the wider Middle East, things increasingly seem to revolve around the geopolitical behaviour of the Syrian Kurds. Whether through skillful realpolitik or by sheer happenstance, they are becoming kingmakers. With...
According to the report on the Kurdistan Human Rights Association, “Asma poorsalimi” from the city of Orumieh in East Kurdistan, in 2016 , and in the return flow from the south Kurdistan by the Islamic...
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 Turkish state obligates the Kurds on the Turkish land to go out for demonstrations against the Kurdish people in Syria and northern Syria. Moreover, anyone who does not participate in the demonstrations would go...
PKK Executive Committee member, Murat Karayilan, told the PKK’s media wing on Wednesday that PKK fighters are completely prepared for any fight against Turkish forces in the Qandil Mountains. “The Turkish government and army failed in the...
Kani Xulam writes a letter to Mr. Ahmadinejad. As a native of Kurdistan, I hate seeing you provide grist for late-night comedians to demean our image! You should be as sick and tired as I...
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...
I am a member of a very old people, the Jewish people, one of the oldest on the planet: a people that founded one of the youngest states, Israel—an experience that you Kurds are now...
According to a source in farsi media, Syria ambassador to China is claimed that 5000 Chinese muslim have been moved to Syria and fight under ISIS ideology. This is first time of jihadis from muslim...