Turkish Protests, Kurdish Indifference
By KANI XULAM 6/10/2013 For centuries, the old Ottoman Turkish Empire ruled half the world. Is it rising again? Does the “Arab Spring” naïvely nurture the tyrannical seeds of a Kurdish winter of nightmarish despair? The old Turkish imperialism was finally checked at...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 enters a tunnel—and comes out black on the other end, you can be pretty sure something happened inside the tunnel. It’s probably the same...
Jeladet Ali Bedir Xan: The Story of A Kurdish Prince in Exile
By KANI XULAM 5/12/2013 “He that once enters at a tyrant’s door becomes a slave, though he were free before.” Sophocles To be sure, Jeladet Ali Bedir Xan (hereafter Jeladet) was not the one who entered the tyrant’s door. His grandfather Mir Bedir Xan...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 Berlin Wall you showed up unannounced in my life. Like most Americans, I was not prepared for your spectacular entrance— exploding upon the...Kani Xulam
A native of Kurdistan, Kani Xulam is a commentator on the history and politics of Kurdistan, and advocates for the right of the Kurdish people to self-determination.
He is the director of the American Kurdish Information Network.
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