- KurdishMedia.com - By Salam Zandi
- 02/09/2010
The outcome of a conflict is often perceived as either one wins or the other loses, both win or both lose. In conflicts, often enough, the feeling of zero-sum situation prevails; we are sharing one and the same pie; if I eat more you will eat less.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Omer Ousta
- 02/09/2010
Obama administration has fulfilled one of its electoral commitments to pull out of the war-weary Arab country. But has it made any difference for the Iraqis?
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- The Kongra-Gel Presidential Board and KCK Presidency of the Executive Council
- 01/09/2010
“A new chance for peace”, a detailed documentation cataloguing the repeated ceasefires initiated unilaterally by the Kurdish side over 1993-2010, the years that the conflict between Turkey and the Kurds has been waged.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
- 01/09/2010
The PKK has laid down their arms and declared a unilateral ceasefire. As part of the agreement, they will not use their weapons unless the Turkish government fires on them.
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The Metro Center to defend Journalists calls on the Kurdistan Democratic Party to drop a defamation lawsuit filed against an independent newspaper in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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- Dr. Aland Mizell
- 01/09/2010
The PKK has laid down their arms and declared a unilateral ceasefire. As part of the agreement, they will not use their weapons unless the Turkish government fires on them. However, the Turkish government has
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American troops are leaving a country that is still perilously weak, divided and violent. Little wonder that some Iraqis now don’t want them to go
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Violence expected to continue as US troops withdraw and as long as political stalemate remains unresolved.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Ahmad Eskandari
- 27/08/2010
Since the very beginning of the establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran, the tone and mode of opposition has been different in Kurdistan.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 27/08/2010
“The Freedom Umbrella”, demand legislating a special law, presumably by the Kurdistan Parliament, to bring those who were involved in into justices; compensate those who lost out as the result; and investigating the fate of those who disappeared.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 27/08/2010
arranged a talk followed by Q & A session on the psychiatric problems of the Kurdish community in the UK, under the title: Common mental health problems among members of the Kurdish community, causes and solutions
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- The National - By Thomas Seibert
- 25/08/2010
A former high-ranking official in the Turkish military has broken a long-held silence over the government’s suspected involvement in extrajudicial killings a move applauded by human rights activists.
The killings are believed to be a result
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Hataw Sarkawt
- 24/08/2010
If the opponents are right, and the purpose is to offend Americans, then the devoted Muslims could argue that the opposite is true. Nothing in New Work goes the way the Islamic prophet wanted.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Gerald A. Honigman
- 24/08/2010
Soon, Israel will once again be expected to give away the entire store because Arabs have merely agreed to discuss the giveaway.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 22/08/2010
CAMP UNITY is an award-winning documentary feature about a diverse group of Iraqi students who unite through hip-hop, jazz, orchestra, and Broadway at an American arts academy in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Sabah Salih
- 22/08/2010
America as the incubator of the cult of multiculturalism has inflicted a great deal of harm on itself: it can no longer defend its cultural values.
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After talking to several students and teachers, I learned that the problem was not just with the Islamic curricula: one of the main criticisms was that the curricula were biased toward the Shia sect of Islam.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 20/08/2010
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)-University of London offers a one-year course in beginners and advanced spoken and written Kurdish-Kurmanji, at SOAS Language Centre in London. If you are interested
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- ABC News - By Rachel Carbonell
- 20/08/2010
Victoria's Kurdish community has expressed shock and disbelief after a series of anti-terrorism raids in Melbourne yesterday morning.
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Norway-based oil company DNO International ASA (DNO.OL: Quote) is selling enough oil inside Iraqi Kurdistan to stay afloat even without the central government's permission to export, the company said on Wednesday.
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- Dr. Aland Mizell
- 18/08/2010
The Philippines’ ARMM has a population of more than three million in the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao Del Sur, Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and the City of Marawi. The ARMM region is headed by one regional governor, one regional vice-governor,
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- By Charles Glass-Taki's Magazine
- 17/08/2010
Denying freedom of expression to Kurds under the rule of Turks and Persians is criminal, but the repression of Kurdish journalists by the Kurds’ own government in northern Iraq is tragic. The Kurdistan Regional Government and the two political parties
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 17/08/2010
You are invited to this seminar/workshop which will report on the findings of a three-year ESRC research project conducted by Dr Jane Holgate, Janroj Keles and Leena Kumarappan, Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University
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- The Guardian - By Martin Chulov
- 16/08/2010
Tariq Aziz: ‘I will not speak against Saddam until I am a free man,’ said Aziz. ‘When I can write the truth I can even speak against my best friend’
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- Reporters without Borarders
- 15/08/2010
Security forces, police officers and members of the Asayesh intelligence service harassed a group of journalists on 11 August in Chamchamal
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- Committee to Protect Journalists
- 14/08/2010
The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by death threats made against journalists at the Sulaymaniyah-based Livin after the magazine published an interview that was critical of a 20th-century Kurdish leader.
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- By Daniel Steinvorth and Yassin Musharbash-Spiegel Online
- 13/08/2010
German experts have confirmed the authenticity of photographs that purport to show PKK fighters killed by chemical weapons. The evidence puts increasing pressure on the Turkish government,which has long been suspected of using such weapons against Kurdish
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- Reporters Without Borders
- 11/08/2010
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which is headed by the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Massoud Barzani, has been waging a hate campaign for the past week against Lvin Magazine, accusing it of besmirching
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- By Mustafa Akyol-Hurriyet Daily News
- 11/08/2010
About 10 days ago, Osman Baydemir, the Kurdish mayor of predominantly Kurdish Diyarbakir, said something that shocked most Turks. 'Why hasn’t the yellow-red-and-green-colored flag waved,'he asked in a public speech
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- Kurdish Human Rights Action Group (KHRAG)
- 10/08/2010
Not even during apartheid when we were fighting the racists and those who were oppressing black people in South Africa did our Embassy here in London or anywhere else in the world refuses to receive letters. The letter from Archbishop Tutu
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
- 09/08/2010
In May 2010 media outlets and blogs spots across the Internet discussed Bill Gates’ Ten million dollar donation to the Gulen Movement’s publically funded charter schools in Texas whose agenda is to spread his version of Islam
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Ousta
- 09/08/2010
America-based author, speaker and translator of Spanish and French descent, a long-time revert, the author speaks with erudition and authority, accessing authentic texts and sources on the ultimate goal of Islamic worship
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Kamal Chomani
- 09/08/2010
We declear that those people and groups (Lvin journalists and Qani Fard) either to apologise for Kurdistan’s sacred people or to give the price of their behaviors
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Lvin Magazine in 1st of August 2010 No 134 has published an interview with the PHD student (Irfan Qani’ Fard) at Harvard University. In his words, Mr.Fard is talking about his thesis, which is on Kurdish modern history
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Helene Sairany
- 08/08/2010
Will it ever be possible to follow my true desire of being part of home and also be assertive about the values I’ve learned in the West?
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mufid Abdulla
- 07/08/2010
From the very first day the idea of a multi-ethnic coalition government was the craft of America to fragment Iraq but they did not realise that a multi-ethnic coalition could not work in the long run.
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- KurdishMedia.com
- 06/08/2010
Art –in-Mind and Dilan Entertainment are proud to present the acclaimed Kurdish folksinger, Delil Dilanar, in concert on Saturday, August 14 at 7 PM. The concert will be held at Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center.
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- Human Rights Watch
- 06/08/2010
Two Kurdish writers amongst 42 writers who win Human Rights Watch Hellman/Hammett Grant this year. They are Parvin Ardalan, a Kurdish writer and woman activist from Iran and Mustafa Ismail, a Kurdish poet from Syria.
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- ANF News Agency
- 05/08/2010
Dersim public prosecutor office launched a criminal investigation against the mayor of Diyarbakir over his speech on Democratic Autonomy for Kurdistan. Osman Baydemir, the mayor of the biggest Kurdish city in Turkey, Diyarbakir
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mufid Abdulla
- 05/08/2010
On Monday, the local security police in Erbil, regional capital, attacked the local newspaper, Hawdam, and entered their premises on the pretext that they were inspecting the premises.
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- KNC - North America
- 05/08/2010
On July 31, 2010, a delegation from Kurdish National Congress of North America (KNC-NA) met with Professor Fertig, to discuss a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling titled "Holder vs. Humanitarian Law Project".
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mufid Abdulla
- 04/08/2010
The Gorran Movement needs to prepare and train a new young generation in politics, the economy and the art of negotiation for the sake of the future of our nation.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Prashant Bhatt
- 03/08/2010
Lebanese and Israeli troops have clashed in an exchanged of rocket and gunfire along the border between the two countries.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Gerald A. Honigman
- 03/08/2010
While there are other ways of describing one's nationality or ethnicity, the addition of the suffix "-ish" denotes this "peoplehood" as well. Indeed, that's how Webster's Collegiate Dictionary primarily defines it.
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- Owen Bowcott and Natalie Hanman-The Guardain
- 02/08/2010
The 27-year-old Iraqi Kurd, classified by the local refugee centre as a "destitute asylum-seeker" and in a fraying relationship with the mother of his two children, had lost the legal aid he needed to pursue his application to remain in the UK.
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- Bloomberg - By Obiko Pearson
- 02/08/2010
Reliance Industries Ltd., owner of the world’s largest refining complex, plans to advance exploration at two oil blocks in Kurdistan this year.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Ibrahim Salehrad
- 31/07/2010
In August and September of 1988 hundreds of political prisoners were put to death by firing squads of the Islamic Republic of Iran after undergoing years of torture in the prisons
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- Human Rights Watch
- 30/07/2010
The Iranian Judiciary should provide urgent medical care to Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand and free him from his unfair detention, Human Rights Watch said today.Kaboudvand, a leading advocate of Kurdish rights in Iran is serving an 11-year sentence
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Chirpa Mohamed
- 29/07/2010
In a world in which innocence is judged, How can there be justice? In a world where privacy is forbidden, How can we be sovereign?
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- time.com - By Charles McDermind
- 29/07/2010
Its origins are an archaeological riddle worthy of Indiana Jones, but it's also a beacon of an oil-rich future. Welcome to the at least 7,000-year-old Arbil citadel in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region
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