KURDISTAN SHORT CUTS (Click Headlines for Full Texts)
Syria’s Kurds prepare for life after Assad
KRG – After months of “medical leave” in Germany, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is returning to Baghdad to face a three-part crisis that could re-plunge the country into instability and sectarian conflict….
KRG – After months of “medical leave” in Germany, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is returning to Baghdad to face a three-part crisis that could re-plunge the country into instability and sectarian conflict….
Syria’s Kurds Build Enclaves as War Rages
The Wall Street Journal – A teacher’s request sends a dozen young arms skyward, with high-pitched pleas to showcase new skills. One by one, the excited pupils walk to the front of their dusty classroom to recite or write in Kurdish—a language outlawed from public life in Syria. While civil war has shut many schools across the country.…
Turkish Kurds still search for disappeared
Deutsche Welle – Seyhan Dogan was just 14 when he was taken away by paramilitary police. It was 3 a.m. on October 29, 1995. “I remember waking up to screaming and shouting and powerful lights being shone into our house,” says his younger brother, Hazni. “Special Forces broke in and took him away in handcuffs.”…
No Further Statement on the Kurdish Issue
Turkish Weekly – Despite high expectations, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did not further his recent statements about a potential dialogue process on the Kurdish issue with the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan. Instead he made a vague call to “his Kurdish brothers” to take a step against terrorism and declare that “enough is enough.”…