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A letter from Prison honors Kurds executed in Iran

Rajai Shahr Prison, Iran- Two Kurdish prisoners who have been on death row in Iran since December 2010 sent a letter out of their jail cell  in commemoration of the two year anniversary of the execution of Kurdish teacher Farzad Kamangar, and four other …

34 Kurdish civilians were killed by Turkish warplanes late at night in late December 2011. They were mostly teenagers, smuggling food into their village. Dozens of protesters in Istanbul commemorated ...

There was a dead town in Syria. The tombstone read “Qamişlo” and on the grave lay red, yellow and green plastic roses. My knees are still hurting because I often kneeled down by the grave...

Amoude, Syria- A small girl with a giant voice chants about how beautiful freedom is while a wave of men smile and dance behind her, waving Syrian and Kurdish flags. The Kurdish region of Syria has co...

The history of Kurdish people is largely unknown, not because it is impossible to find out about Kurds, but simply because the Kurdish cause has not been sensationalised. Among Muslims little sympathy...