Click image to enlarge: 1375 80 year old lady in jail Kurdish family fights to free 80-year-old mother from Turkish jail Makbule Ozer marks her 80th birthday on Friday between the four walls of a Turkish prison cell in Van province. She will have to spend a further 25 months in jail if her family f...

Peaceful Life Returning to Mariupol Peaceful life is being established to Mariupol after it was completely liberated from Ukrainian forces, Konstantin Ivashchenko, the city head, told reporters on Saturday "As of today, the situation is calm. For at least a week there have been no ‘strikes’ on...

Today marks my 25,000 post / comment :ymparty: Including 1421 posts / comments on our thread: Yazidi UPDATES genocide has occurred and is ongoing Sadly, I am starting to feel that we are the only people who actually care what happens to these gentle, peace loving people Remember that though I write...

109,215 people have viewed this thread Where are all your ideas ??? Today, I dreampt of my dear friend Sahin Agribas again :(( I remember all that he did to help hid fellow Kurds and his wish that Kurds should learn their history and unite as one =(( So please help us to fulfil Sahin's dream of a F...

Erdogan threatens rivals The Turkish opposition is talking about secret training camps that belong to the SADAT private military contractor in Anatolia There has been a heated - if not relatively horrifying - debate among the Turkish public for a little over two weeks, including politicians, the me...

https://d2wqffb2bc8st5.cloudfront.net/images/Jan-2022/1643612444dddddddddddddddd.jpg President Masoud Barzani 60 years as a Peshmerga Friday the 20th of May marked President Masoud Barzani’s 60th anniversary as a Peshmerga, his office announced On May 20, 1962, the President of Kurdistan Democratic...

https://www.rudaw.net/contentfiles/663733Image1.jpg?mode=crop&quality=70&rand=1&scale=both&w=752&h=472&version=3376755 Sandstorms risk to health Sandstorms have engulfed the Middle East in recent days, in a phenomenon experts warn could proliferate because of climate change,...

The Ukraine outcome is becoming clearer, Ukraine will be dismembered. The south and the east of Ukraine ultimately – will unite with Russia. The center-north will be all that remains to Kiev. The latter will be very poor: mostly rural; severed from the sea. A large bite out of west Ukraine will most...

Alevis and the myths of the mountain goats Ali Ekber Frik, a 74-year-old dede, or spiritual leader, tells an old story in a low, raspy voice, his plump fingers playing with prayer beads. He’s in Ovacik, a small town in Turkey’s Tunceli province, known by locals as Dersim Behind him a shepherd watch...

https://d2wqffb2bc8st5.cloudfront.net/images/May-2022/16528120501621459621Peshmerga35654.jpg Peshmerga adopting common uniform The Kurdistan Region's Ministry of Peshmerga announced on Tuesday that the decision to adopt a standard uniform for all Peshmerga units would be implemented "The refor...

https://www.rudaw.net/contentfiles/662836Image1.jpg?mode=crop&quality=70&rand=1&scale=both&w=752&h=472&version=3360514 Fire tears through IDP camp in Duhok Caused by an electrical short circuit, a fire tore through Khanke camp at around 5:00 am in the morning, head of the ca...

KRG resolving salary issue Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and his deputy Qubad Talabani discussed the salary distribution issue in Sulaimani and Halabja provinces with their governors on Tuesday. The government decided to allocate an amount of money from local income to fill the sh...

The World Has Forgotten Us: Islamic State's Yazidi genocide Few studies have sought to understand the Yazidi people beyond their unfortunate victimhood. Austrian anthropologist Thomas Schmidinger's latest book avoids this simplistic temptation and presents a vivid portrayal of their plight Thomas S...