Blogs1 - 10 of 447 recent posts for tag:"kurds"
25
Nov
2009
The First Kurdish Signs

17 hours ago by Jenny White

Under Ankara’s “Kurdish Opening”, Kurdish place names are to be restored. Here is the first of the new street signs: Photo from Radikal (click here)

Kamil Pasha - kamilpasha.com · Rank: 83,831 · 28 references

Turkey and UN quarrel over Makhmour camp

23 hours ago by ingridlouisekost

The return of Turkish citizens of Kurdish descent from the Makhmour refugee camp — built by the United Nations for refugees in 1998 — who went to Iraq in 1996 due to increasing acts of terrorism in southeastern Turkey, has placed the UN and Turkey at loggerheads once again, as the United Nations Hig ...

Peace Palace Library news - peacepalacelibrary.wordpress.com · 3 references

January election in doubt

1 day ago by Ben Lando

Stalled law governing the vote delays electoral commissions efforts to prepare, making Jan. 18 date more and more unlikely, as political tensions heat up.

Iraq Oil Report - iraqoilreport.com · Rank: 64,362 · 70 references

22
Nov
2009
Kurdish MP Challenges Turkish Parliament on Armenian Genocide

3 days ago by auntsherisays

Asbarez | November 13, 2009 Posted in Armenian Genocide, Armenian News Tagged: 1915, Democratic Society Party, DSP, Kurds, Ottoman Empire, Protocols, Selahattin Demirtas, TGNA, Turkish Grand National Assembly, Turkish Parliment

Armenian Genocide - armeniangenocideblog.wordpress.com

Amateur Diplomat Urges Congress to Just Say No to the Armenian Genocide ...

3 days ago by Walter Russell Mead

My recent trip to Turkey was an adventure in public diplomacy; I was in the country at the request of the State Department. US diplomats abroad invite a variety of Americans to appear before foreign audiences for anything from jazz concerts and poetry readings to scientific presentations and talks o ...

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How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In 2003

3 days ago by Joel Wing

The Pre-War Situation As recent events have shown, Kirkuk remains one of the outstanding issues in Iraqi politics. Not only does it have a national dynamic between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Baghdad, but a local one between Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, and Christians who live there and ar ...

The Ground Truth in Iraq - thegroundtruth.blogspot.com · Rank: 86,672 · 19 references

21
Nov
2009
Profile | Seyyit Rıza

4 days ago by M.A.M

Mavi Boncuk Seyyit Rıza (Dersim, 1862? - 1937) (in Zazaki: Sey Rıza, in Kurmanji: "Seyîd Riza") was a member of the Abbasan branch of the Sheikh Hasanan [1][2] tribe in Dersim [3]. He was the son of Seyid Ibrahim Agha, from an Alevi sacred family descended from Sheikh Ahmed Dede. Despite being his y ...

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20
Nov
2009
Kurderna bara ockuperar

5 days ago by akkadia

Kurdiska styret i Assyrien (Norra Irak) ockuperar mer och mer mark och hävdar det tillhöra deras så kallade “Kurdistan”. Vi assyrier har försökt att få svensk media att öppna ögonen på vad som görs i vårt område, att kurdernas representanter inte är de offer våra svenska naiva ögon ser, att de är ma ...

Akkadia's Blog - akkadia.wordpress.com · 3 references

CREW Calls On State Dept. To Probe Galbraith Over Kurdish Oil Dealings

5 days ago by Josh

Talking Points Memo reports: A good government group is calling on the State Department to investigate the role of former ambassador Peter Galbraith in drafting Iraq’s constitution in 2005 while he held a lucrative stake in a Kurdish oil field. The letter from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics ...

EnviroKnow - enviroknow.com · Rank: 20,377 · 7 references

Field Report: Human Rights Watch report on persecution in Nineveh

5 days ago by Editor

Field Report —- A longstanding territorial conflict in northern Iraq between the Arab-dominated central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government, mostly invisible to the outside world, threatens to erupt again. It risks creating another full-blown human rights catastrophe for the ...

fieldnotesfromtheedge - fieldnotesfromtheedge.wordpress.com

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