Interview by HAWAR ABDULRAZZAQ - In this interview with Rudaw, former U.S diplomat and adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government Peter Galbraith says the time is ripe for Kurdish independence thanks to the thriving oil industry, international investment and the fact that Kurds are America’s only reliable ally in the volatile region. Galbraith says Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is not following the constitution or respecting the...
Rûdaw: ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Around 34 percent of women in the ethnically diverse city of Kirkuk have been circumcised and most of them are Kurdish, according to a new joint survey by the German WADI organization and the Iraqi Pana Center. The survey on female genital mutilation found that the practice has declined in Kirkuk; however, 15 percent of girls in the community under 20 have been circumcised. Awezan Nuri, a women’s...
Since the 2003 war the Kurds have become the US ally and the most credible partner in post-Saddam Iraq Masud Barzani, president of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), is in the habit of dangling from time to time the idea of independence for Kurdistan. For example in an interview with Judith Miller in 2006 he insisted: “Having an independent state is the natural legitimate right of our people.” In another interview with the BBC in...
TheGuadian: Bashar al-Assad took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule, according to a cache of what appear to be several thousand emails received and sent by the Syrian leader and his wife. The Syrian leader was also briefed in detail about the presence of western journalists in the Baba Amr district of Homs and urged to "tighten the security grip" on the opposition-held city in November. The revelations are...
Open letter to the Mayor of Bochum Dear Dr. Scholz, Presentation of the eighth annual Steiger Award is scheduled for March 17, 2012. This international award is intended to honor one who has shown remarkable straightforwardness, openness, humanity and tolerance. You have chosen to bestow this award on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. In the name of the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), I urge you to reconsider this decision....
Interview by HAWAR ABDULRAZZAQ - In this interview with Rudaw, former U.S diplomat and adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government Peter Galbraith says the time is ripe for Kurdish independence thanks to the thriving oil industry, international investment and the fact that Kurds are America’s only reliable ally in the volatile region. Galbraith says Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is...
Rûdaw: ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Around 34 percent of women in the ethnically diverse city of Kirkuk have been circumcised and most of them are Kurdish, according to a new joint survey by the...
Since the 2003 war the Kurds have become the US ally and the most credible partner in post-Saddam Iraq Masud Barzani, president of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), is in the habit of dangling...
TheGuadian: Bashar al-Assad took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule, according to a cache of what appear to be several thousand emails received and sent by the Syrian...
Open letter to the Mayor of Bochum Dear Dr. Scholz, Presentation of the eighth annual Steiger Award is scheduled for March 17, 2012. This international award is intended to honor one who has shown...
By Robert M. Danin - Friday marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s brutal chemical gassing of Halabja, a northern Iraqi Kurdish town. The Halabja attack is the only documented...
Rudaw.net - A powerful earthquake shook the Kurdish city of Van in eastern Turkey on Sunday and around 138 people are confirmed dead and hundreds more injured. The earthquake that was of 7.2 magnitude destroyed scores of buildings in the close vicinities of Van. Officials expect the death toll to rise as a nighttime search is under way to find survivors. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib...
Rudaw.net, Iraqi Kurdistan -- Prostitution has become a hot topic of debate for legislators and activists in Iraqi Kurdistan, with some arguing that the sex trade should be legalized and regulated....
Dayilystar.com: Over 200 Iraqi Kurdish families have been forced from their homes by weeks of Iranian shelling of rebel bases in northern Iraq, local officials and an NGO said Tuesday. The shelling...
The unilateral declaration of Kurdish autonomy in Turkey was greeted with deadly silence. The world couldn’t care less. Few of us may realize it, but 850 delegates from North Kurdistan recently...
Kurdistan has deployed 12,000 forces to an area along the Iran-Iraq border as ongoing fighting between Kurdish rebels and the Iranian military has killed civilians and raised concerns that Iranian...
The Kurds are a lazy, non-working people, and this is no slander, no story that I am making up about my own people. I am a Kurd and I love Kurds. But just go out there and ask around to find out for...
Erbil, Sept. 2 (AKnews) – The first German school in Kurdistan was opened today in Erbil, and will accept students for this academic year. The school is supported by both German and Kurdish governments. Speaking to reporters during the inaugural ceremony, Stefan Bantle, the German Consul general in Erbil, said the school fees will be inexpensive so that more people can afford to send their...
Since the 2003 war the Kurds have become the US ally and the most credible partner in post-Saddam Iraq
Masud Barzani, president of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), is in the habit of dangling...
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The Kurdistan Cultural Institute is established to assist the Kurdish community and get them acquainted to America ’s way of living and to help them to settle in Middle and other parts of...
The Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, research and educational organization that was established in September 1996 WKI is committed to the following objectives: *...
CAMP UNITY was constructed from over 100 hours of footage shot during the Summer and Fall of 2008, when filmmaker Ryan White spent a total of 9 weeks filming in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Primary...
It was in Paris, in 1983, that I fi rst met Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou. We were introduced at the Kurdish Institute, where I was attending an art exhibition with the fi lmmaker Yilmaz Güney and his wife, Fatosh. I had met Güney at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982. Th at year he had won the Golden Palm Award, and the publicity that followed brought worldwide attention to the plight of the...
2011
Sep
25
Germany, Wiesbaden
