Kurdish

Romanian Kurdish

Syria s Kurdish Hope

Erdoğan s Kurdish Gambit

Sounds like Kurdish. I don't understand it.

(spoke in Kurdish English text provided by the delegation)

Erdoğan s plan, however, depends on ending Turkey s 30 year conflict with its own Kurdish population. As a result, the Erdoğan government has decided on negotiations with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), the armed Kurdish resistance movement.

The same profile has also appeared in the Kurdish media.

Victims included Kurdish villagers, students, journalists and members of political parties.

We do not even seek the creation of an independent Kurdish state just a guarantee of Kurdish rights in a unified Syria. Centralized power has suppressed the country s diversity and led to appalling abuses.

Similarly, when the outgoing governor of Van sent a farewell message last month to the largely Kurdish speaking people in his southeastern province, he delivered it in Kurdish and received warm wishes in return.

9. The member of Parliament and deputy for Diyarbakir, Ms. Leyla Zana, has been sentenced to a prison term of 15 years, upon the lifting of her parliamentary immunity, allegedly for having had contacts with members of the Kurdish Workers apos Party (PKK) and having propagated, in the Kurdish language in Parliament, a just solution for the Kurdish problem.

Nor are those recruits only from the Shia and Kurdish communities, as some erroneously assert.

Kurds held fast to their own ethnic identity. Eventually, the suppression of the Kurdish language and culture fueled a brutal insurgency, led by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) which has cost the country more than 30,000 lives.

With funding from UNDP, UNAMI arranged for the printing of 3,787,420 copies of the draft constitution in the Arabic, Kurdish, Turkmen and Syriac languages (2,507,900 in Arabic, 904,520 in Kurdish, 250,000 in Turkmen and 125,000 in Syriac).

(c) Rahman Rajabi, reportedly sentenced to death for his activities in the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), a Kurdish group engaged in armed opposition to the Government (12 January, 17 January 1996 and 18 July 1996).

At the same time, the Turkish government is pursuing a separate path of negotiations, through a rapprochement with another Kurdish authority the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq. The grand vision is to integrate Iraqi Kurdistan into the Turkish economy.

From Turkey s perspective, a confederation of Syria s northeastern region with the KRG might be favorable to continuing domestic Kurdish unrest, much less rule by the anti Turkish Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) along its border with Syria. In contrast, any attempt by the KRG to establish a Kurdish corridor to the Mediterranean would certainly meet resistance, not only from Turkey, but also from other warring factions in Syria.

Speakers urged that the perpetrators of such offences be prosecuted and the Kurdish militia disarmed and disbanded.

The authenticated versions in Arabic and Kurdish were received by UNAMI on 19 and 29 September, respectively.

The uncertainty this time around is attributable to the predominantly Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP). Kurdish political parties shied away from contesting past elections, owing to their fear of failing to clear the 10 popular vote threshold needed to enter the parliament.

The border between Iraq and Syria is evaporating, as the Sunni militants of the Islamic State capture a widening swath of territory. And the rise of Kurdish military forces against them raises the possibility that a full fledged Kurdish state will eventually emerge.

The judgment was said to be based on the reasoning that, since the group which was quot struggling for the independence of the Kurdish people quot was the Kurdish Workers apos Party (PKK), consequently, Aycin apos s statement demonstrated support for the PKK.

The Committee further urges the State party to allow Kurdish children born in Syria to acquire Syrian nationality.

In this connection, I would like to address the Assembly in the other official language of Iraq, Kurdish.

It is also strengthening its technical team in order to launch a Kurdish version by late August 2005.

41. The Kurdish question divides the political landscape of Turkey into a number of heavily ideologically entrenched positions.

The Government replied that Faruk Dürre had been arrested on charges of assisting the Kurdish Workers apos Party (PKK).

But, unlike either Iran or Syria, Turkey genuinely wishes to see a strong and representative government in Baghdad. Thanks to EU pressures, Turkey's domestic Kurdish problem is well on the way to being resolved democratically, with most Kurdish leaders in Turkey expressing their commitment to Turkish unity.

The Iraqi Constitution protected the rights of the Kurdish people and the other two minorities in Iraq, Syrians and Turks.

He was arrested on 24 July 2003 for taking photographs of a peaceful Kurdish demonstration and posting them on the Internet.

In September 2004, KAKC organized a Kurdish Arab Friendship Conference that was attended by 500 people from more than 10 countries.

Among his sentences was one for having requested, in Parliament, to solve the Kurdish problem in a just and impartial way .

This type of instruction is offered in Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Kurdish, Polish, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Serbo Croatian, Slovakian, Slovene and Turkish.

Mr. Mas'oud Hamid, student, member of the Kurdish minority in Syria, is being held in incommunicado detention at Adra Prison, near Damascus.

This highlights another issue on which Turkey and the Islamic State converge the Kurds. Erdoğan seems to hope that, by degrading Kurdish military strength and territorial control, the Islamic State will help him to achieve his central goal of diminishing the Kurdish nationalist movement, which has long been a thorn in Turkey s side.

The Committee notes shortcomings in the teaching of the languages of certain ethnic groups particularly Arabic, Amazigh or Kurdish in the education system.

Any forced displacement of persons going on there was the work of armed Kurdish groups or the result of incursions from neighbouring States.

On May 15, two small independent energy companies (Turkey s Genel Enerji and Canada s Addax Petroleum) became the latest foreign firms to begin drilling in Kurdish controlled territory under an agreement with the regional government. Kurdish politicians within the new parliament have good reason to protect these lucrative deals as debate begins over constitutional changes.

Turkey accuses Iraqi Kurds of harboring between 3,000 and 3,500 of Turkey s most active Kurdish militants the PKK separatist guerillas who are blamed for the deaths of 80 Turkish soldiers so far this year. The trouble reached the boiling point on October 7, when Kurdish fighters killed 13 Turkish soldiers near Turkey s border with Iraq.

The Kawa Association for Kurdish Culture (KAKC), based in Iraq, reported on the seminars organized to promote understanding between Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen and Assyrians.

Three delegations referred to the situation of Turkish refugees of Kurdish origin in northern Iraq and commended UNHCR apos s efforts on their behalf.

It is time to face reality the Kurdish region in the north is functioning in a reasonable way, and it has even been able to allay Turkey s fears that its existence will aggravate that country s own Kurdish problem. With the Shias building their polity in the south, the Sunni areas too should be allowed to go their own way.

It is time to face reality the Kurdish region in the north is functioning in a reasonable way, and it has even been able to allay Turkey s fears that its existence will aggravate that country s own Kurdish problem. With the Shias building their polity in the south, the Sunni areas too should be allowed to go their own way.

The first and most serious source of tension stems from the need to recognize Kurdish identity as a fully legitimate part of the Turkish Republic. Those who wish to express a Kurdish identity, as well as all other citizens, must be confident that, while all remain committed to national unity, Turkey is a country in which diversity can thrive.