TODAY’S KURDISTAN SHORT CUT NEWS (CLICK HEADLINES FOR FULL TEXTS)

As politics trumps food, Kurds in Syria grow desperate – The National – ‘I’m still in Aleppo and still alive,” Newroz reassured me one day this month. She had just fled the city’s Kurdish district of Sheikh Maqsud, where her brother had been pinned down since fighting engulfed the area on March 29…

Erdogan: Terror won’t forestall peace with Kurds – UPI – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said those opposing a peace plan with ethnic Kurds are employing terrorism to undermine the process. In a speech Saturday, Erdogan said the ethnic forces clashing with Turkish soldiers have promised to lay down arms and begin withdrawing back over the border into Iraq, Hurriyet Daily News said.…

‘What’s in a Name’ in Iranian Kurdistan? – Rudaw – What’s in a name? Apparently a lot, under Iranian laws that prohibit certain names, including those with specific reference to Kurdistan. According to Iranian Kurds in the country’s predominantly Kurdish western regions such as the provinces of Kermanshah and Ilam, local authorities do not allow certain Kurdish names, among them Peshawa, Kurdistan, Komar, Qazi, Awara and Zrebar…