We left Erbil in the morning two weeks ago to meet the Yezidis who had managed to escape ISIS terror, Shoresh Rahem, KRG’s representative in Sweden, another friend and I. The camps in Duhok and Zakho were filled with people …
Posted in Call to Actions, Displacements, Genocide, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, United Nations, Urgent | Tagged Iraq, ISIS, Kurds, UN, Yezidis | 1 CommentI wonder if we should collect donations, buy some thousand Armani Privé suits from the Spring/Summer 2014 collection, dress up the Kurdish fighters in Syria, instagram it and hashtag it #VogueArmy. Then maybe we will catch the attention of the …
Posted in Syria, United Nations | Tagged Kurds, Rojava, Syria, UN | 2 CommentsOnce forbidden in Syria by the oppressive Baath regime, Newroz is now openly being celebrated by the Kurdish people in Rojava (northern regions of Syria). Before the Syrian uprising began in March 2011, Kurds went to Newroz celebrations knowing that …
Posted in Kurdistan, Syria | Comments Off on Celebrating Newroz in RojavaThe Kurdish people were still in mourning, commemorating the one-year-anniversary of the Roboskî Massacre that claimed the lives of 34 civilian Kurdish boys and men. Then news came in the second week of January that three Kurdish women had been …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Executions, Free speech, Iran, Journalists, Kurdistan, Political Prisoners, Syria, Terror, Torture, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on May 2014 not begin with yet another funeralThe struggle of the people of Rojava (West Kurdistan/Northern Syria) is not merely characterized by its armed resistance against the Syrian army or Al Qaeda-linked rebel groups. It is unique in that Kurdish civilians early in the uprising opened Kurdish …
Posted in Syria, Women | Comments Off on Kurdish Lawyers Founding Own Legal System in RojavaFrom October 5th to 7th, a delegation from the IHD (Human Rights Association in Turkey) conducted inspections at several border gates with Rojava (West Kurdistan/Northern Syria). A report has now been released with suggestions of conditions that need to be …
Posted in Syria, Turkey | 1 CommentIn January 2011, I got lost in Qamişlo, the unofficial capital of Rojava (West Kurdistan/northern Syria). I wandered around the streets that all looked alike: broken pavements, small houses side by side with flat roofs, bigger and three-storey high buildings …
Posted in Discrimination, Syria, Women, Youth | 1 CommentThe Syrian civil war has penetrated deep division lines throughout Syria between secularists, Islamists, regime-loyalists and Kurds. Among victims of the regime are Kurds who are fleeing their homes due to violence perpetuated by terrorist groups such as al-Nusra that …
Posted in Activism, Call to Actions, Syria | Comments Off on Kurdish unity amidst crisis in Syria