If you glance at the English newspapers on any given day, you will hardly come across the word martyr. If you do the same with the Turkish ones, the word will leap out at you and sometimes in bold letters. Turkish soldiers are dying in Syria, Libya and Kurdistan....
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What is Up with President Erdogan?
French president Emmanuel Macron isn’t sure of how to deal with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A French magazine writer...
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...








