The residents of Istanbul are getting ready to vote again next Sunday. Turks are divided, making Kurds the most critical voting block in the history of Turkish elections. The city supports 15 million souls, 3 million of whom hail from Kurdistan. The Kurds hold the...
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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...
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...
The War in Gaza and the Kurds
By KANI XULAM 8/3/2014 Tons of printer’s ink—as well as barrels of precious blood—have been shed over the bitter war raging in...
The “Red Scarf” of Socialism, the “Black Flag” of Islam
By KANI XULAM 07/16/2014 Before the black flag of Islamic State (IS) flew over Mosul, the “red scarf of socialism” was dangled...
A Kurd Has an Antidote for Evil
By KANI XULAM 23/6/2014 Do you know Mahmut Alinak? If I strolled down a street in Hawler, Kurdistan, and asked people that very...
Gold, Iron and Spirit
By KANI XULAM 14/6/2014 The email came via Facebook. It was written in impeccable Kurdish. A person calling himself Raperin...
Of Kurds and Those Who Observe Them
By KANI XULAM 6/7/2014 June was a good month for the Kurds. That is if you subscribe to the Hollywood adage: “There's no such...