External Links
A long and informative interview with Leyla Zana, 21 January 2024
The Kurdistan Memory Programme Click Here
A well presented and highly informative Website worth visiting regularly for updates.
Armenians, Kurds, Turks and Tolstoy
by Mr Kani Xulam in Washington DC, USA
published in in Counterpunch.org 17 February 2023.
A thought provoking article worth reading by anyone interested in understanding the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
Warning: It may challenge your deep seated beliefs and cherished assumptions.
Self‑Determination and Use of Force in Rojava
by Loqman Radpey, a doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh School of Law and a research member of the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law (ECIGL) in Scotland.
Abstract:
After living under the colonialism of the Ottoman Empire, France, and Syria, the Kurds of Syria are developing landmark policy atypical of the Middle East. Recent developments triggered by the 2011 Syrian insurgency, the rise of the ISIS, the onslaught on Kurdish cities, and the resistance of People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Unit (YPJ) under the command of Syrian Democratic Forces, have resulted in Syrian Kurds asserting de facto confederalism in the autonomous region known as Rojava in 2016. This allows the population living in the area to retain independent control over their internal and external affairs within the Syrian state along the border with the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq. Turkey invaded and occupied the Kurdish regions of Rojava under the pretext of eliminating Kurdish forces and Daesh…….
Extensive logging led by Turkey in Iraqi Kurdistan has set off an outcry, fuelling the already strong anger toward the Turkish military presence in northern Iraq.
Turkey’s cross-border military operations against the outlawed Kurdish militants based in northern Iraq are under fire for their environmental damage, a fresh addition to civil casualties and forced evacuation.
(An article in the Pulse of the Middle East, Al-Monitor) Click Here to read.
Academic Dictionary online by Prof. Dr. Abdullah Kiran. He says it contains about 5,000 words and concepts in Kurdish, Turkish and English. Click Here
Requests for adding more words/concepts may be emailed to 29abdullah@gmail.com
Kurdish Türkçe English Ravekirin
Tolik ebegümeci Hibuscus
Giyayek ku di nav zeviyan de bi xwe şîn dibe û pelên wê wek zerzewat tê pahtinû xwarin. Tolik wek dermanê kuxikê û êşa mad jî tê bikaranîn
Kurdipedia.org
says it has over 11,700 books in pdf format that can be easily downloaded free of charge.
Click Here to go to the site.
The Kurdish Digital Library (BNK) – Kurdish Institute of Paris
The Kurdish Institute maintains the largest Kurdish Library in the Western World. This library contains over 10,000 monographs about the Kurds, in 25 languages, several tens of thousands of published documents, collections of reviews and newspapers, photographs, videos, post cards and posters, as well as audio archives and music recordings.
Intensifying Turkish war against Kurds marks Treaty of Sevres centenary,
22 August 2020 By David Romano, Thomas G. Strong Professor of Middle East
Politics at Missouri State University.
Worth reading ….
to listen to an interview with the author click Here
to buy the book from amazon.com click Here
