Kurdish driver Isaac Bayram Tutumlu is for the first time taking part in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC). He will be driving a BMW 320 TC with Proteam Racing along side Mehdi Bennani. The 27 year old superstar born in Barcelona, has previously raced in the Porsche Supercup. “I’m excited, as WTCC is a championship Full Article…
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The recent death of an American gym teacher and his student in Silemani has drawn sympathy from family, friends and all Kurds abroad. Most believe the dispute was over religion others think Biyar Talabani just went over the edge psychologically and in turn killed Jeremiah Small . The exact details of the incident are unknown, Full Article…
An American teacher In Silemani has been killed by his student after an intense verbal argument. The school where the incident happened, is a Christian school run by U.S. evangelicals. Servant Group International (SGI) operates the School and two others in Kurdistan. SGI is based in Nashville, Tennessee. The teacher in question is Jeremiah Small Full Article…
United Kingdom – A Kurdish family in the United Kingdom have been compensated after being incarcerated in a detention facility when they were adolescent. The Government of the United Kingdom have settled with the Ay family in an out of court settlement. The family originally from Northern Kurdistan Had arrived from Germany to the United Full Article…
I have read a couple of Nuri’s articles and his astounding analytical hypothesis’s concerning the Kurdish cause. In a recent article (Kurds Must Learn From Zionism) he compared the Kurdish cause with Zionism, more specifically on how the Kurdayeti should adopt Zionism. As amusing as this sounds to anyone, notably because Zionism as he put Full Article…
Exxon, the world’s largest company by market value and Largest oil company has signed a lucrative contract to drill for crude in Southern Kurdistan. Ashti Hawrami is the natural resources minister for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), he confirmed the deal an oil conference held in Hawler. Southern Kurdistan holds 46 billion barrels of crude Full Article…
Infrared imaging is used for a range of military applications – such as target acquisition, night vision, homing and tracking – which means that any vehicle with some kind of infrared “invisibility cloak” would hold significant advantages on the battlefield. BAE Systems has tested just such a technology that not only allows vehicles to blend Full Article…
The earthquake that rocked the Van region for the second time in as little as a month has killed 40 people. This brings the death toll to 644 from both quakes. It is estimated that well over a hundred thousand people have been affected by the two earthquakes. The quakes turned homes into rubble near Full Article…
The American support for the Turkish military and its fight against the Kurdish Peshmerga known worldwide as the PKK is nothing new. It was with the help of the Americans and their allies that Turkey Caught Kak Abdullah. In modern times most of the weapons used against the Peshmerga stationed in turkey are western produced. Full Article…
“One day I was talking with one of the Peshmerga commanders who quoted Napoleon Bonaparte, saying that ‘I am not afraid of 100 men with guns, but I am afraid of one man armed with a pen.’ Since then, I have always looked at my pen as my weapon. I consider myself a Peshmerga, but Full Article…
Historians will all agree on one thing when looking back at the Libyan Conflict, Categorizing the conflict as a (1) Civil War, (2) Moammar Gadhafi the “tyrant” and (3) the Civil War being instigated by the Imperial Powers. If we analyze the Libyan Civil War and our own internal strife’s (Shari Birakuji) one would notice Full Article…
# Hardcover: 1241 pages # Publisher: Ehsan Publishing House; 1ST edition (2006) # Language: Kurdish # ISBN-10: 9643564576 # ISBN-13: 978-9643564575 The Azadi (Freedom) English-Kurdish Dictionary is the most comprehensive English-Kurdish dictionary (Sorani dialect), with more entries and information than any other English-Kurdish dictionary published to date. It has approximately 44,000 entries and over 4,000 Full Article…
- Before I begin I must send my condolences to the families and friends of those that have lost their lives in this tragedy. Peace be upon them. The Recent Norwegian ‘Terrorist’ massacre was not instigated by a Kurd nor was it instigated by a Muslim of any decent as was perpetrated by the media Full Article…
A delegation from Romania’s Foreign Ministry met President Masoud Barzani and Prime Minister Barham Salih in Hawler to announce plans to open a consulate in Kurdistan by the end of 2011. Mr. Mihai Botorog, the head of the delegation said, “Romania is on track to join the European Schengen visa area this year, and our Full Article…
I’ve recently read in many many news outlets referring to the Kurdish demonstrations in Southern Kurdistan as the “Kurdish Spring,” now I don’t have a problem with this naming itself if it was originally attributed to the Kurdish demonstrators but this is not the case. The problem with this naming is that most of the Full Article…
Around thirty activists from Lebanon and Syria on Friday night rallied in Beirut’s Hamra Street in support of protestors in Syria. A group of pro-Syrian regime protestors also rallied to the site and held up pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Security forces reportedly separated the two groups of demonstrators . Now Lebanon: Photo; Lebanese Full Article…
Syrian authorities have arrested more than 1,000 people and many more have been reported missing in the latest sweep aimed at crushing the uprising against President Bashar Assad. Assad is determined to crush the 6-week-old revolt, which is the gravest challenge to his family’s 40-year-old ruling dynasty. Assad inherited power from his father in Full Article…
The Syrian government has deployed troops on the streets of the capital Damascus with tear gas to stamp out yet another round of anti-government protests. Demonstrations on the so-called “Day of Rage” are also going on in other cities across Syria as the revolt against the repressive rule of President Bashar al-Assad now enters its Full Article…
After a firefight with the Turkish army 7 Peshmerga soldiers have been killed. The Turkish security forces killed seven Peshmerga Soldiers in an army operation in eastern Turkey. At least 1,000 soldiers, backed by helicopters, attacked a large group of PKK soldiers in a mountainous area on the borders of Tunceli and Bingol provinces late Full Article…
