Kani Xulam Saturday, October 19, 1996 The Turkish newspaper headlines read, “twelve,” a reference to the number of inmates who were dying due to hunger strikes over prison conditions in the days leading to the agreement of July 28, 1996. The night before,...
The Story – Tragedy – of a Turkish Soldier in the Mountains of Kurdistan
By Oktay Yildiz [First appeared in Ozgur Politika, September 1996] “On a rainy Saturday afternoon, we went shopping in the suburb of Ulus in Ankara. I unconsciously threw myself on the ground when I heard gun shots. When I got up off the ground, faces in the...
S.O.S. Pamphlet
Numbering some 35 million, the Kurds are the world’s largest stateless people. Inhabitants of the region of Mesopotamia in the Middle East, the very birthplace of civilization itself, the Kurds are a distinct people with a history, culture, and language all of...
A Washington Arrest
By David A. Korn June 1, 1996 First came the sound of shattering glass. Then the office door burst open and a dozen beefy men, several with shotguns at the ready, charged through it. As he turned from his desk to learn what was happening a command rang out:...
Mrs. Clinton at Topkapi Palace
By Kani Xulam March 26, 1996 Hillary Rodham Clinton is on a tour of five countries for ten days. Among the places she is scheduled to visit is Turkey. While in that country, she is going to give a speech on the coexistence of secular governments and religious...
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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