A coup may erupt in Turkey, where half of Middle Eastern Kurds live. At least that’s the prediction of the RAND Corporation, an American think tank. That should alarm those who believe, as I do, that the worst of civilian governments are better than the best of...
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An Open Letter to Bafil Talabani
Dear Mr. Talabani, As someone who is sometimes asked to comment on the affairs of our hapless Kurds, I have been confronted with...
Making Diamonds Out of Kurdish Ashes
An ancient Kurdish love song came alive by way of a beautiful movie in New York City last month. A Kurdish grandmother sang it...
Strangling the Spirit of Freedom
I recently attended a rally in Washington, DC to express my support for the Kurdish referendum in Kurdistan/Iraq. We enjoyed...
Crisis Group Tells Kurds To Cancel Our Referendum! Should We Even Care?
From all the international hysteria, you would think that Kurds—one of the most brutally oppressed people on earth—were trying...
Can Kurds Learn Freedom From Israelis?
First our commonalities: we are both the children of the soil. Jews fondly call the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael) their...
Can Long-Subjugated Poles Teach Kurds About Freedom?
The Poles have a state of their own now, but were stateless, like us Kurds, for 123 years at one time. How they got their...
Greek Quest for Freedom and Its Lessons for Kurds
Many Kurds may not know who Lord Byron is. Those who do are richer for it; those who don’t, poorer. George Gordon Byron...