The map and timeline to find photographs and stories from Kurds and Westerners about Kurdistan's history and culture. Photographs unearthed during our research or sent in by website viewers. We invite you to add your story to the ongoing history of this dispersed community. ...

Kurdish Library ENGLISH Kitebxaneya Kurdi KURDI Kurdiska Biblioteket SVENSKA Kurt Kutuphanesi T RKCE Kurdish Library is supported by Swedish Government, The Foundation Culture of the Future and The City of Stockholm ...

Kurdish Human Rights Watch Home Page ...

What is KDP | Organization | President | Women | Halabjah | Youth | General | Leadership Kurdistan Women Union KWU Kurdistan Women Union (KWU) is the KDP women organization division which advocate and maintain women interests and rights within the party and society. Ever since its formation in 1952, The KWU has actively participated in the Kurdish national struggle and fought for the ...

We publish accurate knowledge about the culture, history, religion and current affairs in the kurdish, turkish, german and english languages. The goal of the Denge Ezidiyan homepage is the spreading and exchange of information of the seldom researched and often misinterpreted religion of the yezid-kurds.

Denial of justice, human rights, freedom of expression in Turkey.

World History Archives: The history of Kurds and Kurdistan ...

Collection of images aimed at celebrating Kurdistan and its people, offered as part of Iran Online Forum.

Eddy van Wessel's Kurds of Iraq Photography ...

The Kurds in Turkey The Kurds are a large and distinct ethnic minority in the Middle East, numbering some 25-30 million people. The area that they have inhabited--referred to on maps for centuries as Kurdistan --spans modern day Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Half of the Kurds reside in Turkey, where they comprise over 20 percent of the Turkish population. Modern Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal ...

Who Are the Kurds A largely Sunni Muslim people with their own language and culture, most Kurds live in the generally contiguous areas of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia and Syria a mountainous region of southwest Asia generally known as Kurdistan ( Land of the Kurds ). Before World War I, traditional Kurdish life was nomadic, revolving around sheep and goat herding throughout the Mesopotamian ...

Comparison - Kosovo Albanians and Turkish Kurds ...

Best viewed with 800x600 resolution, 16 bit mode. Find Iranian Businesses Nationwide! Section 1 of 1 Iran Kurds The Kurds speak a variety of closely related dialects, which in Iran are collectively called Kirmanji. The dialects are divided into northern and southern groups, and it is not uncommon for the Kurds living in adjoining mountain valleys to speak different dialects. There is a small ...

THE TRANSNATIONAL MOBILIZATION OF ETHNIC CONFLICT: KURDISH SEPARATISM IN GERMANY Alynna J. Lyon Department of Government and International Studies University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 lyona@black.cla.sc.edu Office: (803) 777-8180 Emek M. Ucarer Department of Government and International Studies University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 eucarer@vm.sc.edu Office: (803) 777-1332 ...

Parliamentary Human Rights Group Represented by: Ann Clwyd MP (Chair), Jeremy Corbyn MP, Lord Avebury. intro | The objectives of the group are outlined as follows: To receive verbal and written reports of violations of human rights abuses throughout the world To communicate to governments, their representatives in the UK and visiting delegations PHRG concern about human rights violations To ...

Issue 9, vol 101 -- March 8, 1999 this issue | past issues | links | masthead | contact | search Kurds protest for basic human rights . james steidle, the peak The world is once again focusing on the Kurdish people following violent demonstrations that erupted in response to the capture of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan on February 15. The Kurds continued their protest on Friday March 5, at the ...