by Kani | Jul 5, 2017 | Commentary, Featured, Main Feature, Oped Feature
Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) didn’t live long enough to see a free Italy, but wrote some of the most moving verses to lament his homeland’s subjugation by France under Napoleon Bonaparte. In a poem titled, To Italy, he mourns the loss of Italian soldiers...
by Kani | Jun 5, 2017 | Commentary, Featured, Main Feature, Oped Feature
Sofia, Bulgaria is not a popular destination for travelling Kurds, but if you find yourself in the Bulgarian capital, make sure you visit the monument of Vasil Levski outside the National Cultural Center. Greeting you will be the words of the selfless and fearless...
by Kani | May 19, 2017 | Commentary, Featured, Main Feature, Oped Feature
Turkish Embassy statement regarding Sheridan Circle attacks on May 16, 2017 and a Kurdish Response Turkish Claim: Groups affiliated with the PKK, which the U.S. and Turkey have designated as a terrorist organization, gathered yesterday without permit in Sheridan...
by Kani | May 16, 2017 | Commentary, Featured, Main Feature, Oped Feature
This is the heartwarming story of how some football players classily poked their fingers into the eye of Turkish authoritarianism. Their daring act of solidarity—worthy of the political pages of our daily newspapers—took place in a football stadium in Hamburg, Germany...
by Kani | Apr 30, 2017 | Commentary, Featured, Main Feature, Oped Feature
He was already world-famous living in Paris, France. She was hardly known outside the circle of her friends living in Mardin, Turkey. He was not in Guernica, Spain when Nazis and fascists bombed it from the air and turned it into a ghost town. She was inside Nusaybin,...