The Wise Man of the Turks

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
  • 16/05/2013
A wise man is someone who knows and sees differences between good and evil, just and unjust, right and wrong, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral. View Article

Arab Spring, Kurdish Spring?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Sheri Laizer
  • 04/04/2013
It is Kurdish New Year, Newroz, and the birdsong in the mountains is intense. Frogs join in the chorus by the streams and the wild boar plunge deep into the forest of dwarf oak that cover the hills of Kurdistan between Iraq and Turkey. View Article

Why a third party is missing in the Turkish- Kurdish Peace Process

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
  • 03/04/2013
The conflict in Southeastern Turkey between the government of the Republic of Turkey and the Kurdish rebel group (specifically the PKK) has been going on for more than three decades. View Article

Updated: Halabja’s Wounds

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rashid Karadaghi
  • 23/03/2013
I wrote the following short piece twenty-two years ago under a pen name about the gassing of the people of the town of Halabja, the Kurdish Hiroshima, by the criminal Saddam regime. View Article

The full version of Mr Öcalan's Newroz statement: Let all the oppressed have a free and happy Newroz!

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 22/03/2013
Greetings to all peoples of Middle East and Central Asia who celebrate newroz, the day of revival and rejoice, with the greatest participation in the world… View Article

Salafist Jihad – The whirlwind of destruction in Syria

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Sheri Laizer
  • 22/03/2013
THE BLACKEST kind of war disembowels Syria. Its fitful beginnings two years ago are now a distant echo of long-suppressed aspirations for democratic change, overtaken by far less democratic forces including that of Salafist Jihad. View Article

Barzani’s foreign policy risks Kurdistan’s long term future

  • KurdishMedia.com - By B Mohammed
  • 03/02/2013
Kurdistan region president, Massoud Barzani’s, burgeoning ties with the Turkish republic risk isolating the Kurdistan region of Iraq, creating a dependent region and ultimately risks the region’s future. View Article

“You Cannot Occupy Arab Land”!

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rashid Karadaghi
  • 03/01/2013
And how is one to explain our being instrumental in rebuilding the army of the “new” Iraq, after being decimated in the 2003 Iraq liberation campaign, thereby giving Arab Iraq the tool to threaten us with, as it is doing now? View Article

Open letter to United Nations Secretary-General

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 25/12/2012
The United Nations as the guardian of universal human rights and peace can and should put an end to the Iraqi prime minister’s discourse of interethnic discord View Article

Cracking down on Kurds doesn’t solve any problem

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Hussein
  • 25/12/2012
Turkish governments have cracked down Kurdish people in modern Turkey from 1920s, and they have used any suppressive tools that could be helpful in order to end their demands for freedom and independency. View Article

And it has all come to this!!

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rashid Karadaghi
  • 09/12/2012
Something in the news caught my attention recently like no other, for it summed up, at least in my mind, the tragedy of our people not just today but throughout our history. View Article

Kurdish literary genius and giant, Shokrollah Baban

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Amir Sharifi
  • 01/12/2012
On November 18, 2012 Shokrollah Baban, the great Kurdish poet, author, mythologist, radio programmer, and lexicographer passed away he had been afflicted with alzhmeir’s disease. View Article

Notes from hunger strikers in Los Angeles

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Luqman Barwari
  • 15/11/2012
Our hunger strike group of four spent 48 hours around the clock camping in front of CNN-LA on Sunset blvd on the pavement View Article

Kurds are dying for their existence in Turkey: Hunger strike weapon of last resort

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Aland Mizell
  • 11/11/2012
I am not arguing or asking Turkey to give the Kurds rights, but I am asking who gave Turkey or Islamists the right to deny Kurdish basic rights, such as birth rights to a right to life View Article

Will Syria’s rebels face a Kurdish Front?

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Daniel Brode
  • 09/11/2012
Four decades of unabated Assad rule are testament to the Syrian regime’s mastery of sectarianism in the Middle East. View Article

KCK trial of Kurdish lawyers – Istanbul 6th November 2012

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Tony Fisher
  • 09/11/2012
In November 2011 mass arrests of some 46 Kurdish and Turkish lawyers took place in raids carried out simultaneously in many Turkish cities and provinces. View Article

The unbridled despotism in South Kurdistan!

  • KurdishMedia.com - By H. A Babo Barzani
  • 09/11/2012
The contingent effect on Kurdish society was short lived, due to the brutality of the Kurdish authority and the ambivalent attitude of the main opposition forces: Gorran, 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

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

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