Kurdish language

The Problem “Borders are the worst invention ever made by politicians,” Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president stated this while reflecting on globalization’s failed promise of borderless nations, and the creation of borders more rigid than ever (2016). Across the world, wall building has become the common political strategy used by nations who deem physical barriers as the only way to deal with difficult neighboring nations. The increasing fortification of borders as not just a political

unofficially, the US has fully supported the Kurds militarily through the establishment of long-term partnerships between military forces. While always a point of contention with Turkey and the Government of Iraq (GOI), the recent increase in support for Kurdish forces in Syria to oppose the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) brought the issue to the forefront. The time for US policy to withhold support for the Kurds is past due to their critical role in the campaign against ISIL. The US attempted

They are covering their faces, and they tell them that they should have over all passports, and money they have on them. The Kurdish villagers screams, and tries to get away from them, but for no use, Hussein, Miriam and Ali are in the background, they do not move, nor are they saying anything. They notice that the chief of the Kurdish villagers Amir is taken in the front, and is explaining to the soldiers that they are crusaders and that they just move around to find a new place

measures ended further protests. The Kurdish uprising proved more deep-rooted, serious, and durable. The Kurdish leaders were disappointed that the Revolution had not brought them the local autonomy they had long desired. Scattered fighting began in March 1979 between government and Kurdish forces and continued after a brief cease-fire; attempts at negotiation proved abortive. One faction, led by Ahmad Muftizadeh, the Friday prayer leader in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdish culture, was ready to accept

insurgent threats to the region and to the United States foreign missions as well as short and long term analysis on the direction of the country and U.S. policies going forward. Syria is one of the oldest civilizations in history, with art, written language, and religious activities dating back to the time of Mesopotamia. It has been the dagger’s edge in the Levant, splitting between western culture, and eastern religious ideology for the last two millennia. Significant religious acts in religious

Part1: In Ghobadi’s cinema, we see how Kurdish are treated differently from the normal Iranian women. For instance, their dress code is different Rojin address is exposing too much of her skin, she wears traditional colorful clothes were on a normal occasion she is supposed to wear the black chador in Iran. Though she covers her hair, she does so with a white headscarf, unlike the traditional Islamic black headscarf. The film also highlights the male dominance issue in the society. The women are

Family in Kurdistan In this essay, I will be exploring an essential word that can be understood or elucidated in various ways based on three perceptions, which is Family. The word family is defined as “a group consisting of one or two parents, their children and close relations” according to Oxford dictionary. However, the word family is described differently bases on the people’s educational level in Kurdistan. Firstly, among the educated or modernized members of the community family is defined

While the Yezidi live mostly in Kurdistan and speak a dialect of Kurdish, they are not to be confused with the Kurdish people. Ethnically, Yezidis are Kurdish but in every other aspect, they are certainly a culture of their own. Primarily, the largest distinction for the Yezidi is their religion. Due to this, the Yezidi people differ from most others in their society because of the differences that their religion leads to. The kinship aspect of Yezidi culture is very distinct and relates to their

“Everything I was dreaming of is gone.” Those are the words of Abdullah Kurdi, whose wife and two children drowned after the small boat that was supposed to take them from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos had capsized. Abdullah Kurdi was ultimately trying to get his family to a better life in Canada when it all went wrong and he lost everything. Since Alan Kurdi’s little body washed up on a Turkish beach on September 3, his photos have taken the world by storm. Abdullah, his wife Rehen, and their

Many journalists were arrested, tortured and imprisoned. Most of the cases were associated with terrorism. According to the BIA Media Monitoring Reports, 104 journalists and 30 distributors were imprisoned in 2012. Also 64 of the journalists were Kurdish as well as almost all distributors. (Depeli, 20112). When Atatürk founded the Republic of Turkey, his ideology was to westernize the country through changing the education and political systems. Even though the majority of the population of Turkey