By KANI XULAM 6/7/2014 June was a good month for the Kurds. That is if you subscribe to the Hollywood adage: “There's no such...
Of Kurds and Those Who Observe Them
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Adultery (New Definition): See “The Kurds”
By KANI XULAM 1/6/2014 “Mother,” said little Pearl, “the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it...
Dr. Ismail Besikci Will Lecture at American University
Don’t dare miss this extraordinarily insightful probe into the thorny Mid-East “Kurdish Question” by renowned Turkish scholar Ismail Besikci.
Who Speaks for Kurds?
By KANI XULAM 5/18/2013 “Beware, lest you lose the substance, By grasping at the shadow.” --Aesop If a car is white when it...
An Open Letter to the President of the United States
March 17, 2013 “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” Barack Hussein Obama Dear President Obama, Like the sudden fall of...
A Cry For Freedom
They viciously snatched his body from the hospital and cruelly dumped it in the dirt road of the village where he was born—as if he were a filthy bag of rotten potatoes.
‘Innocence’ or ‘Schadenfreude’
In its reports, don’t expect to find a reference to Ismail Besikci who first “discovered” Kurds in Turkey and was awarded 17 years behind bars for his “treasonous” efforts nor a mention of Giuseppe Mazzini who had the likes of Kurds in mind when he said, “without [a] country … you are the bastards of humanity,” nor an acknowledgement of Tacitus who had the likes of Turks in mind when he said, “Master race and liberty do not go together.”
Instead bigoted Turks define the Kurds and turncoat Kurds act as exhibits of why Kurds should never enjoy a place of their own under the sun.