A Turkish Trojan-Horse Election?

by | Jun 6, 2015 | Commentary, Featured, Oped Feature

Jun 6, 2015 It has been more than 3,000 years since the Greeks gave the world a new word: “Trojan Horse,” which has come to mean cagy deception. That’s because the Greeks—after failing to defeat Troy during a ten-year siege—left a huge wooden horse, as if they were...

A Kurdish Mosque and an American Church

by | May 17, 2015 | Commentary

The city of Washington is chockfull of monuments honoring famous generals and politicians. Anyone living in the city is used to seeing them. But we are not used to a large banner unfurled at a major intersection inviting us to “An Evening with David Brooks.” Mr....

Kürtler’in Ermeni soykırımına yaklaşımı nasıl olmalı?

by | May 8, 2015 | Türkçe

Vicdan sahibi çoğu insan, 1915’te başlayan ve en az 1 milyon Ermeni’nin Osmanlı Türk Devleti tarafından korkunç bir şekilde katledildiği, tarif edilmesi çok zor, dehşetli bir suç işlediğini düşünüyor. O zamanlar biz yoktuk elbette ki -bu gerçeği kabul etmek beni de...

How Should Kurds Address Armenian Genocide?

by | May 5, 2015 | Commentary

Most people of conscience feel a frightful crime of unspeakable brutality was executed against more than a million Armenians when they were horrifically slaughtered by the old Turkish Ottoman Empire beginning especially in 1915. We weren’t around then, of course, but...

The “Other Kurds” of Kurdistan

by | Aug 28, 2014 | Commentary

By KANI XULAM 8/25/2014 These have been extremely sad days for me. When the fanatics of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) made a dash for Mosul in June, the Kurdish forces of the KRG did the same for Kirkuk and other Kurdish populated regions inside Iraq,...