Kurdistan issues in press interviews: Kurdistan Region PM Nechirvan Barzani
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 05/07/2008 00:00:00
In his press conference after his return from Baghdad head of Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) talked about important issues.
PUK anti-terror force detained a former peshmarga, his teenage daughter committed suicide
- KurdishMedia.com - By Muhammed Ali
- 04/07/2008 00:00:00
Kadir Zirek was a PUK peshmarga and has been detained by PUK without any trial since 18 February 2006. His teenage daughter, who was at the third year secondary school committed suicide suffering from the trauma of missing his father.
Keween, PAT, and human rights, 1001 words
- KurdishMedia.com
- 04/07/2008 00:00:00
A good human, skilled surgeon, but athletically clumsy friend of mine with an injured right hand invited me to a human rights conference.
3 shepherded became victims of Iranian mines in Haji Homaran
- KurdishMedia.com - By Kamal Chomani
- 04/07/2008 00:00:00
Three people on the KRG border with the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Berdunaze Mont, became victims of mines, one of them was killed and the other two seriously wounded, reported a police source in Haji Homaran.
Kamkar Australian tour, Sydney
- KurdishMedia.com
- 04/07/2008 00:00:00
Kurdish Music group, will have an Australian Tour soon. You have the opportunity to experience the most prominent classical Kurdish music in Sydney.
Nine Turkish military and intelligence bases operating in KRG
- KurdishMedia.com
- 03/07/2008 00:00:00
The Kurdistan Parliament, the Kurdistan Government, the Kurdistan President, the Kurdish bloc in Iraqi Parliament, the Kurdish ministers and the Iraqi President in Baghdad are all accepting, or keeping quiet to, the Turkish atrocities
Head of Newroz TV kidnapped and assaulted in Arbil
- KurdishMedia.com
- 03/07/2008 00:00:00
Argushi was handcuffed from his home and kidnapped to unknown location where he is badly assaulted and left to die, but he did not.
Hand grenade thrown into local judge's home, Awene
- KurdishMedia.com
- 03/07/2008 00:00:00
Judge Sarkewt Awni Omer, a resident of the Fermanberan Quarter of Qeladize was attack with a hand grenade, which was thrown by a number of unidentified people.
Iraqi Kurds: Leadership’s disconnect with people
- KurdishMedia.com - By Rauf Naqishbendi
- 03/07/2008 00:00:00
Kurdish history is one of the most disheartening stories because of the suppression and repression that has continued for centuries.
Ayoub Barzani: Modern concepts, such as nation, civil society and democracy must replace party, tribe and family rules
- KurdishMedia.com
- 02/07/2008 00:00:00
They have created KRG in order to take back the authority, but in reality the two parties are more influential than KRG.
Iran: The Last Executioner of Children and Women in the Modern World
- KNC-NA
- 30/06/2008 00:00:00
In the past decade, the Iranian regime sentenced 177 child offenders to death, of which 34 executions have already taken place. Their ages ranged from 12 to 17 years.
Kurdish language issue and a divisive approach
- KNC - North America
- 29/06/2008 00:00:00
Recently, a group of 53 Kurdish intellectuals proposed to the Kurdistan Parliament to make the “central dialect” the official language of Kurdistan.
Reading President Barzani: The President and the people
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 29/06/2008 00:00:00
In Kurdistan region there is nothing that can be described as people’s discourse or human rights discourse. It is seldom to hear from so-called Kurdish leaders any statement talking about people.
Wounded Ansar al-Islam militant died in Iranian hospital
- KurdishMedia.com
- 29/06/2008 00:00:00
The militant was wounded last Thursday when a group of Ansar al-Islam attempted to mine the border town of Penjwen.
American Kurdish Summer Concert, NJ
- KurdishMedia.com
- 28/06/2008 00:00:00
American Kurdish Association Presents: Summer Concert Featuring
South Kurdistan’s absence of economic strategy hampering growth and prosperity – part 2
- KurdishMedia.com - By Mufid Abdulla
- 27/06/2008 00:00:00
In the interview conducted on the 8th June 2008 by the Kurdish website Digital Gulan, the Mayor of Hawler, Nawzad Hadi, was asked many questions regarding the current economic state of the South of Kurdistan.
Islamic security forces killed a Kurd and detained a Kurdish activist, website
- KurdishMedia.com
- 27/06/2008 00:00:00
The Iranian security forces killed Sheikh Gharib Hamahasani, 55, a former activist of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iran or KDPI in the Kurdistani city of Saghez.
70 year old man and 3 sons taken away 8 years ago by PUK, Hawlati
- KurdishMedia.com
- 26/06/2008 00:00:00
Their siblings reported to Hawlati, stating that they still have no awareness of their whereabouts. Ahmed’s wife wishes to know whether she is widow or not. She is not sure.
Iraq: Flourishing corruption under American occupation
- KurdishMedia.com - By Rauf Naqishbendi
- 26/06/2008 00:00:00
In the life of any nation, there is no substitute for effective, positive leadership. Good leaders can lift a nation from despair and disappointment to hope and a re-kindling of what is possible.
Remarks by President Bush and President Talabani of Iraq in Photo Opportunity
- KurdishMedia.com
- 26/06/2008 00:00:00
I think we have - we were able to go the steps towards reaching to finalize this agreement. And we continue our struggle to - our efforts to reach - Inshallah - very soon this agreement.
Carlin, the holiness
- KurdishMedia.com
- 25/06/2008 00:00:00
People honor their spiritual leaders with the title of holiness for unclear reasons.
Reading President Barzani: The president and the party
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 24/06/2008 00:00:00
Barzani would have tried to present a new role model as national leader acting according to the standards of accountability, legality, equality and civil society
KHRP publishes latest issue of its legal review and trial observation report on freedom of expression in Turkey
KHRP is pleased to announce the publication of issue 13 of its biannual Legal Review, and its latest Trial Observation Report, ‘Persecuting Publishers, Stifling Debate: Freedom of Expression in Turkey’.
Lessons from Hezbollah
- KurdishMedia.com - By Bilind Amedi
- 22/06/2008 00:00:00
Recent events in Lebanon have proven that the country’s government is unable to effectively rule the state and make independent decisions under the presence of armed militias.
Turkish attitude towards the Kurds: No limit to irrationality
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rashid Karadaghi
- 21/06/2008 00:00:00
Sometimes one wonders how far man and the institutions he has created can go with their ridiculous and irrational behavior.
Reading President Barzani
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 20/06/2008 00:00:00
This June exactly three years have passed since Masu'd Barzani was elected President of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq by the Kurdistan National Assembly in June 2005.
South Kurdistan’s absence of economic strategy hampering growth and prosperity
- KurdishMedia.com - By Mufid Abdulla
- 20/06/2008 00:00:00
As recession spreads all over the world the main rich industrial countries are laying out their strategy to hamper these crises and are exploring ways to sustain their business in their market economy.
Kurdistan issues in press interviews: Dr Fuad Omar
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 19/06/2008 00:00:00
Syrian Kurdish leader: US cannot succeed in the Middle East without the support of Kurds.
Two kings no solution for Kurdistan
- KurdishMedia.com - By Rauf Naqishbendi
- 19/06/2008 00:00:00
Liberation from the grip of occupation is one of the most arduous tasks facing any nation. At times, its bloody struggle can stretch over decades, as is the case with the Kurds.
Kurdistan issues in press interviews: Sheikh Qambar Al-Bayati
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 19/06/2008 00:00:00
The Turkomans need to know their destiny is bound by the destiny of the people of Kurdistan
Interview with head of Iraqi Turkoman tribes Sheikh Qambar Al-Bayati
Meeting on genocide to be held in London
- KurdishMedia.com
- 18/06/2008 00:00:00
The new co-operation between Armenian, Assyrian and Kurdish groups has facilitated this event
52 Iraqi Kurdish Asylum Seekers forcibly deported to Sulaimania Airport, refugee org
- KurdishMedia.com
- 18/06/2008 00:00:00
52 Iraqi Kurdish Asylum Seekers forcibly deported to Sulaimania Airport on Tuesday
European Court of Human Rights finds Armenia in violation of Article 10 for refusal of broadcasting licence
- KurdishMedia.com
- 18/06/2008 00:00:00
The European Court of Human Rights yesterday found Armenia in breach of Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Right
At last after 85 days the cabinet of Kurdistan Region Government meets!
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 18/06/2008 00:00:00
After failing to hold a single meeting for 85 days, the cabinet of Kurdistan Region Government met on 6 June 2008.
Turkey: Three children on trial in case over freedom of expression
- Amnesty International
- 17/06/2008 00:00:00
Three boys, aged 15, 15 and 17 at the time that the alleged offence was committed, will go on trial in Diyarbakir in the south east of Turkey accused of violating Article 7/2
A letter to the PM of Kurdistan
- KurdishMedia.com - By Habib Atarodi
- 17/06/2008 00:00:00
We are not living in the 19th century Sir, when the Kings made all the decisions and the masses followed them sheepishly.
Semi-autonomous region of Muslim of Mindanao in the Philippines: Can it be the solution for the Kurdish ethnic conflict in Turkey?
- KurdishMedia.com - By Aland Mizell
- 16/06/2008 00:00:00
Turkey could create an autonomous, federally recognized political, ethnic and economic region within its borders.
Lesbia ahead of Kurdia
- KurdishMedia.com - By Hataw Sarkawt
- 16/06/2008 00:00:00
Because of persistence of citizen of Lesbia, even the founders and the registrars of the marriage, the church and the state, are giving up their traditional and conservative views.
Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa: Is it reform or sharing wealth and privileges?
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 15/06/2008 00:00:00
The present head of Wisha Company and the former founder of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and deputy Secretary General of PUK Nawshirwan Mustafa chose for the first time to make a response to two members of the political bureau of PUK.
Hawlati: Inmates are pressured to change stories after report
- KurdishMedia.com
- 14/06/2008 00:00:00
In Destgayi Zaniyari, I was stripped naked and was told if I do not confess, I would be sexually assaulted. Alternatively, I was told, my relatives would be brought in and I would be sexually assaulted in their presence.
23 people injured in a suicide attack Qeretepe
- KurdishMedia.com
- 14/06/2008 00:00:00
a suicide bomber blow herself up which caused wounding of 23 people, some seriously
Social fascism: the tragedy of women killings and deaths in Kurdistan Region: reality, reasons, solutions
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 14/06/2008 00:00:00
Looking for individual cases: Women live in hell, die in violence and are buried in silence.
Love and unity in 1001 words
- KurdishMedia.com
- 14/06/2008 00:00:00
Love has the power to unite and free people at the same time. The idea that people could be loved and yet allowed to freely determine their own way of life might be foreign to some of us.
Kirkuk region, Article 140 and recommendations of UN envoy Steffan De Mistura
- KurdishMedia.com - By Mufid Abdulla
- 13/06/2008 00:00:00
Article 140 is perhaps the most integral part of the Iraqi permanent constitution with regards to Kurdish nationalism and the continuing struggle to reclaim the Kurdish region of Kirkuk as well as for the overall security situation of Iraq.
UNAMI fails to address the constitutional commitments of Article 140, says WKI President
UNAMI has elected not to release the complete text of its report and has merely released a brief press release, available on its website.
Women deaths and killings in Kurdistan Region: 28 May to 11 June 2008
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 13/06/2008 00:00:00
This newspaper publishes news of women killings and deals with issues specific to the sub-district towns of Ranya and Qaladiza.
Close the doors of the Parliament!
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 12/06/2008 00:00:00
After 85 days of failure of the cabinet to hold a single meeting and instead of talking about the accumulated problems of Kurdistan Region.
We are waiting for the answer to the question: Isn’t Kurdish free in this country?
- Human Rights Association
- 12/06/2008 00:00:00
Although Anatolia is a multi-linguistic, multi-cultural, and multi-religious community, practices in Turkey reject multi-culturalism and multi-linguist and every passing day…
Kurdish leaders: Lack of credibility
- KurdishMedia.com - By Rauf Naqishbendi
- 12/06/2008 00:00:00
Saddam Hussein’s genocidal campaign against Kurdish civilians is one of the most atrocious and cruelest crimes recorded against humanity.
Social fascism: the tragedy of women killings and deaths in Kurdistan Region: reality, reasons, solutions, ii
- KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
- 11/06/2008 00:00:00
In the context of the reality described above it is impossible to answer this question as it is impossible to answer: how much is Kurdistan’s budget and how is it spent?