If you take a walk in downtown Hawler and ask random Kurds if they know of Ben Rhodes, you will likely get blank stares and, “Nope, never heard of him.” If you were to do the same thing in Shengal, the Yezidi town in Kurdistan-Iraq, you should get grateful...
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And the Killing Continues…
September 18, 2016 “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” –Mother Teresa Acclaimed...
Richard Engel and the Kurds
August 21, 2016 Mr. Engel is chief foreign correspondent for NBC News. He has become a household name in America regarding news...
Turkey’s Fatally Flawed Democracy
Nov 30, 2015 We’ve heard the old saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” We can now add: “Don’t judge a book by a quote in...
Kürtler, Kadınlar ve Abdullah Gül
Nov 29, 2015 Şu özlü sözü hepimiz duymuşuzdur: “Bir kitabı kapağına bakarak değerlendirmeyin.” Şimdi bu söze, şunu da...
When a Kurdish Boy Meets a German Girl
Letters to the Kurdish Patriots — 2 —
Unlike the Red Sea that parts to accommodate another emergency for another people, the Kurdish mountains remain impervious to the larger drama of its children. In the words of one character, they devour especially “children under three years old and [the] elderly.”
Prison No. 5: Eleven Years in the Turkish Jail
A New Publication by Blue Crane Books February 2, 2002 Watertown, Massachusetts - Blue Crane Books has announced the publication...