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Ahmedê Khanî was borned in 1651, in the province of Hakkarî (Northern Kurdistan). He lived in Dogubeyazit (north of Wan), where he died in 1706. He was at the origin of a literary school, the school of Dogubeyazit, which had a production durgin all the 18th century. His mausoleum rises not far from the old palate of the Kurdish princes, Ishak Pasha’s palace. And still nowadays, Kurds from all countries come to visit it. More than a simple poet, Khanî is considered there as a great sheikh, a baba.

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Hewler Post has done an interview with Zalmay Khalilzad the Afghan origin ambassador of the USA in Iraq about the future of Kurdistan and America’s relations.
In which Mr Ambassodr says America wants to keep both Kurdistan and Turkey as alley and make them have good relationship with each other.
Mr Ambassodr also said , PKK should be removed from the grounds of Iraq and they have assured Turkey that Kurdistan will never be independence .
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The trial of this Dutchman trader has its importance for severel reasons. The first and the more important, is that for the first time a European Court and then a state, recognizes that Anfal is legally, and according to the Convention of Geneva of 1948), a genocide, for the Dutch court should decide, in precondition to the verdict, if the gas bombing of the Kurdish town of Halabja, in March 16th 1988 was or not a genocidary act.

Moreover Anraat’s story is exemplary to see how Iraqi former regime benefitted of an International network to buy forbidden products.
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The sentence which had been pronounced by the Court of Hewlêr has condemned Kamal Sayyid Qadir at twice 15 years of prison for 2 different offences, then 30 years. it is important to precise that the complaints against him, and that the prosecutor has considered as serious, had not been lodged by President Masud Barzani, nor from the Kurdish governement, but from the Governorate of Hewlêr and from a service of “National Security and Safety” independant from the Home Office.
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So the explosion that we dread occurred at last but did not have significant consequences. I think it could have been more serious. The Kurds who raised the big flag that Turkmens (Turks) seized were becoming very angry! And as Turkmens were too already angry to see a Kurdish flag passed aboe their heads, the time bomb fatally exploded. There were blows from both sides. A policeman was near to our group, the French ones. I saw that he hesitated to intervener. Guessing that the fight could become general, he called immediately reinforcements. So our group spontaneously decided to move away the scene because we feared that if a lot of policemen arrive in reinforcement, some of us would be arrested, and we had to take our bus 30 minutes later !
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Then this cockfight between Kurds and Turkmens ?

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After everyone had finished to vote, we gathered and decided to visit the town of Utrecht by small groups. We agreed to come back to “Centraal Station” at 2h30 pm.

Some took then public transport, others, more courageous, walked until the town center. It is really a beautiful city and people are very friendly and smiling. And how Dutch women are tall !!
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“Our driver thus wentto park his bus in the carpark which was reserved to him and where he slept during hours! Indeed he deserved it, it is very tiring to drive by night.

We moved towards the office of vote.There was almost there, only Arab Shiites, 6 or 7 persones maximum. They stuck small posters for the 555 list, I believe. They greeted us. On somewalls, there were posters of the Allawi List (731). But no poster for the Kurdish list and no Kurdish in the place, except us.
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Roj Bash blog has collected the narration of a brave Kurdish elector, gone from Southern France to vote in Holland… We publish it as and when we receive the parts of the tale… We hope pictures soonly, too !

“I was not aware of this trip in Holland. Knowing that we could not vote in France, we had envisaged to got to Belgium with a car. But a Kurdish friend from Paris called me by phone sunday or last monday and informed me that there will be a bus for those who want to vote in Nederlands. I learned in the same time that Belgium did not organize the elections. As the bus was free, I did not hesitate one moment !
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