If you glance at the English newspapers on any given day, you will hardly come across the word martyr. If you do the same with the Turkish ones, the word will leap out at you and sometimes in bold letters. Turkish soldiers are dying in Syria, Libya and Kurdistan....
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Beleaguered Kurds As Saviors of Democracy in Istanbul
First a little bit of digression: When a Roman general conquered a new land; he was authorized to have a parade through the...
Should Freed Yezidi Women Keep Their Children?
Long before the controversy of whether or not the freed Yezidi women of Islamic State should hold on to their children became a...
One Kurd’s Incredible Audacity To Make Australia a Land of Liberty
To be fair to him, this was not what Behrouz Boochani wanted to do when he was growing up in Kurdistan, Iran. But that is pretty...
A Biopsy of Iraq
If Kurds are your business and their neighbors your concerns, this book is your meat. What some Kurds do in several of his stories will infuriate you. You won’t be wrong to call them the incipient cancer cells of Kurdistan.
Glowing Bush Tributes Ignore Dark Genocide
Your average Iraqi is 19 years old—so many were not even born when two devastating earthquakes ravaged their country in 1991....
World Order Without Kurdistan, Oops America!
Fortune magazine annually prints the names of 500 American companies that are envied around the world. If there were a magazine...
Is Erdogan Like Malcolm X?
Something strange happened in New York last month. President Erdogan of Turkey met with two daughters of Malcom X, Ilyasha and...