September 21, 1999 Ambassador Baki Ilkin Turkish Embassy 2525 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20005 message sent via facsimile: 202.612.6744 Dear Ambassador Ilkin, Four weeks ago, I wrote you a letter announcing our intention to collect donations for the...
Help Quake Victims!
August 22, 1999 Dear Friend, As you know, a major earthquake has hit the industrial heart of Turkey causing the death of thousands and the destruction of property worth billions of dollars. The infrastructure of the region has broken down and basics such as food,...
Open Letter to the Turkish Ambassador
August 21, 1999 Ambassador Baki Ilkin Turkish Embassy 1714 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20005 message sent via facsimile: 202.612.6744 Dear Ambassador Ilkin, It is with a heart filled with sorrow that I write you to express my sadness over the death of...
Iraqi Kurdistan — Stillborn From a Distance
By Kani Xulam August 18, 1999 When the news of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait reached the exiled Kurdish communities in America on August 2, 1990, an air of uneasiness was palpable on their faces. If Saddam Hussein got away with the annexation of his so called 19th...
Turkey and the Charge of Genocide, July 31, 1999
A Submission to the Independent Commission for International War Crimes Tribunal Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, New York By Kani Xulam July 31, 1999 The ancient Greeks would define a man who immersed himself solely in his own private affairs as an idiot. ...
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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