We enter this world with certain predetermined facts—such as our sex, parents, and nationality. What we do with those facts can chart the course of our lives. A baby born to Kurdish parents in Turkey faces life-altering obstacles. A baby born to black couples in...
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When Evil Devoured a Good Man
August 30, 2019 Wedat Aydin didn’t have a say in why he was born a Kurd in an international colony called Kurdistan part of...
An Open Letter to Paulo Coelho
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”—Voltaire Dear Mr. Coelho, You are hot news in...
Democrats of the World Lift Up Your Heads: Kurds Have Arrived!
You could say that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan played with fire—and got burned. Even better—it was Kurds who lit the...
Farting in a Turkish Mosque
The residents of Istanbul are getting ready to vote again next Sunday. Turks are divided, making Kurds the most critical voting...
“President-Elect” Biden and Kurds
Americans are gearing up to elect their president in November 2020, for a four-year term beginning in January 2021. The choice...
A Saint, a German and the Kurdish Quest for Freedom
First about a shop that serves falafels at Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, DC. On one of its walls hangs a sign with a...
Drone Strikes and Hunger Strikes
Turks everywhere solemnly honor November 10, 1938 and its anniversaries, as a day of mourning. That’s when the founder of their...