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Memo to President Obama

From Rudaw.net June 15, 2015 There is a statue of Woodrow Wilson in Prague, Czech Republic. There is a statue of Bill Clinton in Pristina, Republic of Kosovo. There should be one of you, in Hawler, Kurdistan. Before telling you why,...

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A Turkish Trojan-Horse Election?

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...

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A Kurdish Mosque and an American Church

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...

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How Should Kurds Address Armenian Genocide?

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...

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The “Other Kurds” of Kurdistan

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...

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