Erfan AliAs we mark another month, it's been 21 years since the United States and its allies invaded Iraq with the aim of establishing democracy and freeing the nation from dictatorship. However, over two decades later, Iraq and Kurdistan have not achieved democracy; instead, they...
Sherwan Amin Sherwani was born in 1983, in Akre, a city located in the Duhok Governorate. He successfully completed his education after retuning back to Iraq from Iran, where his family had migrated. He holds a bachelor's degree in management and economics.Shwerani embarked on his journal career in 2008,...
Since my mid-20s, I have been studying two things that fascinate me: · How someone uses language—the words they chose.· How political self-interest creates and maintains geopolitical divides.I believe humanitarian aid should be accessible to anyone—much more so than military...
New Page 1According to Journalist Qadir Nadir’s article on TevdaPress Calligrapher “Mullah Ahmed Mustafa Mohammed” was a popular calligrapher in Soran and Harir and Batas. In 1996, an official of PDK requested him to make a banner and some phrases like “Immortal Mullah Mustafa...
New Page 1Anna Mahjar-BarducciWe all know her as Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old girl that was tortured and killed by the "religious morality police" of Iran's Islamic Republic. However, her name was Jina, a beautiful Kurdish name, meaning "life."In Iran, the Kurdish population is being discriminated...
Listeners of Peshang radio station, we are continuing to present our radio programs.We have prepared a subject wich is a dialogue with political activist, Chia As'ad about corruption on the international anti-corruption day, 09 December.What are the reasons and causes of corruption in the world...
By: Zand_JaffDuring the Archaic period (mid-8th-6th century BCE), the peoples of the Greek peninsula gradually settled into a group of city-States. They developed an alphabetical System of writing, as well as the beginnings of what is now recognized as western philosophy. Previous civilizations has relied...
Written by: Dr Mahdi Kakei Translated from Arabic by: Shwan Koshnaw ----------------------------------- In the first article we mentioned ten evidences, which confirm that the Sassanids were Kurds. In this article we continue presenting more evidences for this topic. 11. The scholar (Masoud Muhammad)...
Written by: Dr Mahdi Kakei Translated from Arabic by: Shwan Koshnaw The vast majority of eastern and western historians, regard the Sassanids as Persians, while reliable historical sources unequivocally confirm that the Sassanids belong to the Kurdish people. The ancient Kurdish people must be brought...
Dr Mahdi Kakei: Since the creation, the human beings have created the "devil" with different names. They were afraid of the natural phenomena that threatened their lives, such as darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, lightning, thunder, winter cruelty, predatory wild animals, sickness, hunger,...
Brutal Killing of Saudi journalist JAMAL KHASHOGGI did not come as a surprise to me as I’m from a military state in a third countries in the Middle East. In my experience of practising freelance journalism in Iraq there is no venue where you can voice your opinions and ask unjust leaders...
Once Saddam's Ba'athist regime had fallen, I dreamed that we could at last live in a freedom and peace. Thought that the people of Kurdistan region could leave the atrocities behind, that we would learn from our mistakes, and that no authority would again treat anyone like...
After a multi-day artillery barrage, the Turkish Army has begun its push into Afrin, a district of Syria which has been governed by Syrian Kurds ever since they defeated al Qaeda and Islamic State terrorists. Turkish officials say they plan to set up a buffer zoneextending almost...
Nawshirwan MuhamadThe history of the Barzani and the so called Democratic Party of Kurdistan can be summarized in a series of betrayals, failures and illegal and corrupt behaviours. Those can be portrayed as followes: First: in 31/08/1996, the KDP and its leader resorted to the worse enemy...
Founding Chairman, Business Executives for National Security It has always been a matter of historical curiosity that one of the American diplomats who was deeply involved in the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was named Achilles. As the head of the State Department's Office of...