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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...
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...
By KANI XULAM 1/6/2014 “Mother,” said little Pearl, “the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it...
Don’t dare miss this extraordinarily insightful probe into the thorny Mid-East “Kurdish Question” by renowned Turkish scholar Ismail Besikci.
By KANI XULAM 2/3/2014 The year was 1985. In America, President Ronald Reagan began a peaceful second term. In Turkey, seething...
By KANI XULAM 16/2/2014 It’s as if Charles Martin had the Turkish foreign minister in mind when he wrote in his novel, Chasing...
By KANI XULAM 27/1/2014 After CIA-trained Cuban exiles seeking to overthrow Fidel Castro’s government were crushed in the 1961...
By KANI XULAM 20/1/2014 “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” ---Mark Twain, What Is Man? Turkish President...
