You could say that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan played with fire—and got burned. Even better—it was Kurds who lit the flame. It started when Mr. Erdogan noticed his handpicked candidate for mayor of Istanbul, Binali Yildirim, was losing in the polls. In...
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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...
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...

