Kurdish Lives Matter, Shame on Trump, Israel Do It Now! (tags)
Free Kurdistan, Israel Do It Now!
With U.S. Backing, Turkey Invades Kurdish Syrian Afrin (tags)
U.S. and Turkish Troops Out of Syria!
Israel Must Recognize An Independent State of Kurdistan (tags)
This article surveys the historical mistreatment of the Kurds, and urges Israel to recognize Kurdish independence.
Large Scale Shootings in Kurdistan Autonous Zone Iraqi Kurdistan on Video (tags)
NPR and Kurdish speaking citizens with hand held cameras report offensive maneuvers by pro Iranian militias and Iragi government forces. Video report shows construction equipment burying dead in shallow graves
Demonstrations nation-wide Against Turkish Invasion of Iraq on Friday, Feb 29th (tags)
This week, several Kurdish-American communities and supporters across the United States are expected to demonstrate again in several cities in response to the recent invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan by the Turkish military. Kurdish-American communities in each city have coordinated with one another to launch demonstrations during the same week in order to express a unified opposition to months of bombings by the Turkish military and the recent invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan.
On the Turkish Armed Incursion into Northern Kurdistan (tags)
The Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP) condemns the Turkish authorities in bombing and incursions in Northern Kurdistan part of Iraq for the third straight days. We equally condemn the US and Iraqi authorities for providing the necessary data for such bombings and incursions against the Kurdish people in the border of Turkey and Northern Iraq. The same military incursions and bombings in the islands of Sulu in Southern Philippines where a division size forces of the AFP and undetermined numbers of US military special forces and advisers were deployed for more than a year.
PKK Guerrillas Have Crossed Into Iran: Ex-Leader (tags)
KOYA, (Southern Kurdistan), Nov 11, 2007 (AFP) Thousands of Kurdish guerrillas have crossed the border into Iranian-occupied Kurdistan to escape a threatened Turkish offensive against their mountain redoubts in Iraqi Kurdistan, a former guerrilla leader said.
Iranian Kurdistan: A simmering cauldron (tags)
Simmering discontent among Iran's ethnic Kurdish minority - aided by the government's conflict with a Turkish PKK offshoot - could spell major trouble for the Iranian government. The US government is fully aware of these tensions, and, according to published reports, is preparing several contingency plans to capitalize on mass discontent in these areas.
Ex-Mossad chief+German uberspy+top-dollar GOP lobbyists = Kurds snag 15 tons of $100 bills (tags)
During Saddam Hussein’s rein, the Oil-for-Food “revenue was spent in Arab parts of Iraq but not in Kurdistan,” according to the Los Angeles Times. “Kurdistan’s share of the fund was set at 13%. At least $4 billion accrued in Kurdistan’s name, Kurdish officials say, and some contend that the amount could be as much as $5.5 billion.” The paper reported that in late June 2004, just five days before he turned Iraq back over to domestic rule and flew out of Iraq, then-top US official in Iraq Paul Bremer ordered the transfer by three U.S. military helicopters of $1.4 billion in 100 dollar bills to Kurdistan—his calculation of the Kurds’ share of Oil-for-Food funds; but the Kurds and their advocates believe they are owed a few billion more. It was so much cash—15 tons’ worth—the paper further reported, that no bank could be found in which to deposit it.
ROLLING START: The Idiot Prince Will Have His War (tags)
There is a long struggle ahead, and it will become more terrible. But just as those before us fought slavery, apartheid, fascism, and colonialism, we will take up our historical task with confidence and determination, and assert our humanity against these gangsters.
Old Europe Gives the New World Colonists a Geo Political Lesson. (tags)
On Friday the 7th of February February 2003 it was reported in the New York Times that the U.S. in negotiations with Turkey was essentially offering the Turkish government a military foothold in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Kurdistan Region Surviving Attempts by Syrian Military Dictatorship to Destroy I (tags)
Kurds are ineligible for admission to public hospitals in Syria In the 1960's 120,000 Kurds were stripped of citizenship and unable to acquire birthcertificates. The law restricts written materials of all types not only those of, by or about Kurdistan topics.Many Kurds may not marry Syrians although they pay taxes to the same offices, work
Kurdistan News You Can Use+Week of October 11,2001+ (tags)
1). Voice of America reports on October 3rd, 2001 that the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan arrested 17 members of Jund al Islami a terrorist organization. 2.) Workers World party continues to supply intelligence and media aid to Ocalan the gang leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party a Maoist terror group responsible for 30,000 deaths in Turkey.
Kurdistan: History,Activity, Hopes,Appraisal, Horror and Analysis 1974-2001 (tags)
Kurdistan is an important region. With 25,000,000 recorded people, shaped much like the outline of the continent of Africa only much smaller an sliced by Turkey, the Islamic Republics of Iran and Iraq, Syria and a pocket of Armenia Kurdish men and women have endured uprisings, loss of 100,000's of thousands of lives, imported weapons used against them, strange alliances and bio/chem weapons.