Gareth Stansfield, Chatham House and Exeter University, Robert Lowe, Chatham House and Hashem Ahmadzadeh, Exeter University Kurds have struggled for decades to mobilize and gain international attention. Now, for the first time, some Kurdish interests are converging with the regional designs of prominent members of the international community. Read the rest of this entry »
Violation of human rights in Kurdistan is an unchanged policy of Islamic Republic in Iran
A report of human rights violation by Islamic Republic of Iran in Kurdistan on the 60th Anniversary of International Convention of Human Rights.
The Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan, PJAK) is a militant Kurdish nationalist group based in northern Iraq[2] that has been carrying out attacks in the Kurdistan Province of Iran and other Kurdish-inhabited areas.
Ancient History
Origin: Kurds are reported to be the descendants of many settlers in their current homeland. Their ancestors include Guti, Kurti, Mede, Mard, Carduchi, Gordyene, Adianbene, Zila and Khaldi.BC: Ancient written historical tablets indicates that along other smaller kingdoms and city states the Guti’s kingdoms began around 2300 BC and the Medes kingdom around 1100 BC.
7th century: First record of Kurdish writing.
NuRuj, as is pronounced in parts of Kurdistan, and Newroz, as it is known in Iran and other parts of the Middle East, is just around the corner, arriving on vernal equinox, which occurs on a certain precise moment usually on March 21. For year 2008, it occurs on March 20, at 05:48 UT. This occurs when Earth completes its journey around the Sun with vernal equinox as a reference point.
Anatomy of a political Assassination
Since the success of the Islamic Revolution, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to exporting its revolution abroad. One aspect of this campaign has been a commitment to silencing critical voices in the Iranian exile community around the world. Since December 1979 Iranian intelligence agents have assassinated monarchist, nationalist and democratic activists in countries as diverse as the United States, Austria, Dubai, France and Turkey.
1. Potential utility of a text corpus for Kurdish language
1.1. General Preamble
Any study in the Kurdish field immediately meets important difficulties. One of the greatest is, no need to tell, of political nature. To build a text corpus for Kurdish language cannot be seen as a neutral action : doing this is first to assert the existence of a language, of a territory, of a nation ; it is also to confront oneself with the division of this nation and of this language, a division which is as well imposed and suffered than perpetuated by Kurds themselves.
The Americans are sinking into a quagmire of their own making in Iraq, but still fantasise about re-drawing the map of the whole Middle East more to their liking. One startling example is this map, produced by the Armed Forces Journal, who in their June issue portray a region that is further balkanized, and basically split up along ethnic lines,
Peshmerga, Peshmerga or peshmerge (Kurdish: pêşmerge) is the term used by Kurds to refer to armed Kurdish fighters. Literally meaning “those who face death” (Pesh front + marg death) the Peshmerga forces of Kurdistan have been around since the advent of the Kurdish independence movement in the early 1920s, following the collapse of the Ottoman and Qajar empires which had jointly ruled over the area. Peshmerga forces do make use of female fighters, making Kurdistan one of only three entities in the Middle East that actively uses female soldiers (others being Israel and Iran).
Kurdish Music (Kurdish: Muzîk û strana kurdî) refers to music performed in Kurdish language.
Traditionally, there are three types of Kurdish Classical performers – storytellers (çîrokbêj), minstrels (stranbêj) and bards (dengbêj). There was no specific music related to the Kurdish princely courts, and instead, music performed in night gatherings (şevbihêrk) is considered classical.