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[Ennahar Online] Ennahar Online - “Kurdish Shakira” shakes customs: Dashni rejects these criticisms and argues instead that she wants to make of her musical an instrument to the modernization of Kurdish culture. "I chose to do this because I think people, especially youth, need a new artistic style to break the chains of the past,"

[Reporters Sans Frontières] Kurdish journalist once under sentence of death gets - Reporters ...: Adnan Hassanpour, a Kurdish journalist whose death sentence was quashed in August 2008, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison by the court in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj that retried his case, Reporters Without Borders has .

[Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about Turkey and Istanbul] Öcalan obstructs Turkish government plan on Kurdish question ...: There was heavy speculation about laws that would enable Kurdish education in state schools, renaming villages in the south-east of the country with their original Kurdish names, and even about an amnesty arrangement for PKK fighters. Öcalan himself earlier declared he would come up with a roadmap to peace in mid August, after which the government speeded up their own initiative to keep matters in their own hands.

[The Kurdistani- Kurdish Online Community] Growing open government with Transparency Camp West - The ...: Sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan organization founded in 2006, Transparency Camp allowed open government advocates to freely swap ideas about a wide range of topics: voting, journalism, public transit, healthcare, citizen engagement and more. The theme of openness also extended to the Sunlight Foundation's board meeting on Saturday.

[Untitled] Kurdish journalist in Iran once under sentence of death gets 10 ...: The death sentence was passed on Hassanpour on July 16, 2007 by a revolutionary tribunal in Marivan, in Iran’s Kurdish northwestern region, which found him guilty of subversive activities against national security, espionage and separatist propaganda. After first confirming the sentence on October 22, 2007, the supreme court in Tehran quashed it in August 2008 on procedural grounds.

[Alliance for Kurdish Rights] Alliance for Kurdish Rights » Investigating the murder of Kurdish ...: “The killing of Soran Mama Hama again shows the terrible risks faced by journalists working in Iraq,” CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney said. “His murder seems intended to silence critical reporting in a region where independent journalism is trying to establish a foothold.

[EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS] Changing Kurdistan, by Mohammed A. Salih « EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS: There may have been serious domestic disputes in this election campaign, but on the issue of Kurdish relations with the rest of Iraq, it is risky for any side to appear less nationalistic than the others. Even if the opposition intended to have a different policy, it could hardly do anything about it, since the executive branch, headed by incumbent Massoud Barzani, is in charge of directing policy vis-à-vis Baghdad.

[Alliance for Kurdish Rights] Alliance for Kurdish Rights » Iranian Kurdistan: Journalist Jailed ...: In a report released last week the human rights organisation, Amnesty International expressed concern about the increased repression of Kurdish Iranians, particularly human rights defenders.

[here coming blog] here coming blog » Iraqi Arabs and Kurds: How Wide Is the Gulf?.: Kurdish journalist and former university professor Omar Sheikhmous also called the meetings promising. “It has more or less established a certain framework for future negotiations,” he said.

[Shining Light In Dark Corners] Turkish Invasion of Iraq Threatens to Escalate to Full Scale ...: Massoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader [NOT PKK, Peshmurga, the best Iraqi soldiers!] has issued all the press comments he can to publicly warn that Kurdish patience is gone. The United States is either ignoring the signals or missing them”¦The Kurds can and will bloody the Turks badly in a fight.

[Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about Turkey and Istanbul] Work in progress | Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news ...: It’s also pointed out that more than ten years ago the CHP wrote a report about democratisation as a possible solution to the Kurdish issue. The CHP is nowadays very nationalistic, but they were once a real social democratic party, and, at the beginning of the nineties, CHP leader Deniz Baykal even met with one of the leading Kurdish politicians, now DTP chairman Ahmed Türk, after Türk was released from prison, to discuss the problems of the Kurds.

[Breaking News] Iraq: Kurdish officials say Iran confirms it has detained 3 ...: Iraq hopeful about release of Americans in IranBAGHDAD ””The Iraqi foreign minister said Sunday that he was hopeful that three Americans detained in Iran after crossing the border from northern Iraq will be released soonIranian border guards detained freelance journalist Shane Bauer and his companions Sara Shourd and Josh Fattal on July 31 while they were hiking near a waterfall on a mountain in Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region. U.S. and Kurdish officials say the Americans accidentally entered Iran through poorly marked border territory, but the Iranians have indicated they were looking into possible espionage charges.

[Baghdad Bureau] One Man in Kirkuk: Kirkuk in One Man - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: Now aged 45, he fought in the short-lived mid-1970s rebellion against Saddam Hussein by the Kurdish Peshmerga forces belonging to Mustafa al-Barzani, the father of Massoud Barzani who is now leader of the autonomous Kurdish region in the north.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Syria, Israel, and Water: Prelude to a War?: There’s a separate but related issue with the Dead Sea, and Israel, Jordan, and the PA are working cooperatively to deal with that. It’s not as simple as it appears, because adding sea water will upset the unique mineral composition of the Dead Sea, so ironically, the water to be added will have to be desalinated.

[Breaking News] Families call for return of 3 Americans detained in Iran while ...: Iraq hopeful about release of Americans in IranBAGHDAD ””The Iraqi foreign minister said Sunday that he was hopeful that three Americans detained in Iran after crossing the border from northern Iraq will be released soonIranian border guards detained freelance journalist Shane Bauer and his companions Sara Shourd and Josh Fattal on July 31 while they were hiking near a waterfall on a mountain in Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region. U.S. and Kurdish officials say the Americans accidentally entered Iran through poorly marked border territory, but the Iranians have indicated they were looking into possible espionage charges.

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