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[ti]DA[/ti]News about Kurds in Diaspora
Topic Started: 16th February 2013 - 07:31 AM (6,073 Views)
Zagros	5th January 2014 - 01:45 AM Post #26
Serheng Posts: 1,267 Group: Elite Member #235 Joined: Sep 8, 2013 Mood None	Ethnic Kurds Among Those Quitting Jobs in Swedish Police Force STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Last month a policeman was arrested in Sweden for endangering the lives of other citizens, after he opened fire while chasing a burglar. He was later freed, but that did not stop more employees of the Swedish law enforcement department to quit their jobs to protest work conditions and job insecurity. According to the Swedish media, one policeman is dismissed and one is disciplined every three months for mistreating detainees. The policeman, who was arrested last week and freed by the Stockholm court, was able to avoid a severe legal punishment. According to unofficial records Kurdish immigrants form one percent of the Swedish population and some work in sensitive government positions, such as in law enforcement. However, due to increasingly strict regulations and bureaucracies, Kurds also have begun quitting jobs as policemen. Last year man Dana Ahmed, a Swedish policeman who is an ethnic Kurd, was dismissed after twisting the arms of a detainee. His dismissal led a number of other ethnic Kurd and Arab policemen to quit their jobs as well. “A lot of work in return for low pay is a very boring job,” said Ahmed, while explaining the reasons for quitting his job as a policeman. “We are not trained to respect people who could potentially kill us,” he explained. “Working as a policeman in this country is very tiresome, and getting dismissed is an ever present threat in this occupation,” said Ahmed, who is now happily working in another job. Many experienced immigrant policemen have left their jobs. Those who have acquired professional experience tend to work as intelligence agents in Sweden. One of the high-ranking deputies in the Swedish Security Police (Sapo) is a Kurdish immigrant from south Kurdistan. According to media reports, Sapo has employed more than 10 Kurds as undercover agents. A report by Jan Guillou, a well-known Swedish researcher and writer, was previously broadcasted by the Swedish state radio, in which he stated that Sapo is recruiting Kurdish immigrants as spies. “When arresting the number one suspect in any case, it is impossible to respect his rights as a human,” said one dismissed policeman, who spoke to Rudaw on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of his case. “This is a false bureaucracy in the Western countries and the criminals are greatly manipulating it.” Swedish policemen from immigrant backgrounds, often working in districts mostly populated by immigrants, do well in their jobs, data show. “We are better than others in our job,” said Jaffar Karim, a policeman in Malmo city in the south, which is populated by immigrants and known for unrest and Mafia activities. “We rarely fail in carrying out our duties, but police bureaucracy is our biggest obstacle.” - See more at: http://rudaw.net/english/world/04012014#sthash.GRiQ5atl.yOlXyQOn.dpuf
	Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.


purearch72	5th January 2014 - 08:51 AM Post #27
Banned by member request Posts: 2,684 Group: Members Member #8 Joined: Nov 20, 2012 Mood None	Sentencing Lee Mordecai, the judge said Swansea did not have the same racial problems as other cities and the courts would not allow racism to flourish. Mordecai had previously admitted the manslaughter of South Kurd Kalan Karim, 29, with a single blow to the head in a city centre attack last September. Mr Karim was tortured in Iraq and had had part of his left leg amputated. Mr Karim was given leave to stay in the UK for four years, and arrived in Swansea in 2003 having spent some time in the north East of England. His death sparked a large anti-racism protest in Swansea. The courts will do whatever they can to ensure racially motivated crime will not be tolerated in Swansea Mr Justice Roderick Evans Last month Swansea Crown Court heard Mordecai was drunk when he carried out the "cowardly, underhand, and racially motivated" attack near the Kingsway in the early hours of 5 September. Mr Karim later died in hospital. Paul Thomas QC, prosecuting, said at around 0139 GMT, Mordecai and a group of friends approached Mr Karim and a friend at in the Kingsway area of the city, where they were talking to a group of women. Mordecai then became abusive, and said Mr Karim and his friend should "go back to their country". "One of the three girls remonstrated with him about these remarks. Kalam Karim took no part in these verbal exchanges. He did not get involved in any way, verbally or physically. The judge said Mordecai's sentence should be a warning to others "Lee Mordecai approached Kalam Karim and hit him with a blow from the side and rear. This blow landed to the area of what witnesses describe as his neck or throat area. Mordecai initially denied murder but changed his plea when the lesser charge of manslaughter was put to him. The prosecution said this was only done after discussions with Mr Karim's family and police. Sentencing Mordecai on Thursday Mr Justice Roderick Evans said: "I accept fully that from the evidence you have placed before me that you are not an entrenched racist. "However, I have no doubt either that this incident was motivated by race. You picked on Mr Karim because he was of a different racial background from yours. "Swansea has a small ethnic minority community. "It would not be right to say that there is no racially motivated crime in Swansea, but Swansea does not have the major problem that some cities in England and Wales have, and Swansea should not allow itself to get into a position where that kind of problem exists and flourishes. "The courts will do whatever they can to ensure racially motivated crime will not be tolerated in Swansea and people who commit such crimes will be severely dealt with." Was a while ago but still very interesting I found out from a video apperently the place has many addicted people in it thousands protested against it.
	Geliye Qasumlo


the SUN child	16th January 2014 - 11:32 PM Post #28
ZAGROS-ARYAN Posts: 2,332 Group: Senior Members Member #33 Joined: Jan 2, 2013 Mood None	Quote: Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences: Nizami Ganjavi had Kurdish origin Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (AMEA) reviewed yesterday the results of a broad study of the works of Nizami of Ganja, aimed at confirming the fact that great poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi is not Persian poet. The AMEA Presidium informs that Academy’s president Akif Alizadeh underlined that such important events as the solemn celebration of the 870th anniversary of poet Nizami, putting up of the Nizami monument in Rome, organizing of the International Nizami Center in Ganja and many others have been carried out at the state level in order to protect the great Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami from unfounded attacks. All these activities are important steps towards eliminating the attitude towards Nizami as the Iranian poet. A great responsibility has been lied on the domestic scientists whose professional activities relates the Nizami study. Their research is of great significance. Part of successful study, due to which important results were received, is being conducted at the AMEA Institute of Literature. In turn, Institute of Literature’s director for research Teymur Kerimli has presented a report on the theme "Azerbaijanism in creation of Nizami Ganjavi". It says that there are often facts when for objective and subjective reasons a number of artists create their works not on their mother language, but on a working language of the region. For this reason, it is absolutely groundless to name Nizami and some other representatives of the Azerbaijani medieval poetry either Iranian or Persian poets on the sole ground that they wrote only in Persian. There are a range of arguments proving that Nizami is Azerbaijani poet. For example, the poet himself and all medieval sources mentioning about him confirm uniquely that Nizami was born in 1141 in Ganja, one of the cultural centers of Azerbaijan and one of the capitals of the Azerbaijani state of Atabeks in the XII century, and lived and worked in Azerbaijan all his life. Nizami used many Turkic words in his works. In poem "Leili and Majnun" he said that his mother had Kurdish origin and in poem "Khosrov and Shirin" he calls himself with Turkic word "ikdish", that means "half-breed". Saying "sirke", Nizami meant his mother - Kurdish woman and saying "bal", he implied his Turk father. These and other sounded arguments prove Nizami’s love for his motherland and the people of Azerbaijan, as well as the fact that the ideology Azerbaijanism occupied a significant place in his works. The results of the report were evaluated by the Presidium as important scientific innovations. It was recommended to expand the ongoing research in this area. According to the decision, in the future motifs and images in Nizami’s creation, relating to Azerbaijan, will be more thoroughly examined, and field trips to oriental centers of Russia, Europe and America will be organized to promote the works of the great poet. http://abc.az/eng/news/main/78737.html
	Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.


Dalaho	17th January 2014 - 12:46 AM Post #29
Têkoşer Posts: 2,764 Group: Elite Member #36 Joined: Jan 9, 2013 Mood Coldturkey
	-"the best reward for martyrs is to continue their path..." Dr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou


Dalaho	23rd January 2014 - 01:20 AM Post #30
Têkoşer Posts: 2,764 Group: Elite Member #36 Joined: Jan 9, 2013 Mood Coldturkey	In 2004 18-year-old Alan Muhsin and his family were smuggled from Muhabad in Kurdish Iran into the South Kurdistan of Iraq in order to escape a life of poverty. Following years of hard work and determination, Muhsin now studies at Stanford University in the USA, one of the world’s top universities. “My parents are journalists and the family has never been very well-off. But I always excelled at school and when we came to the South Kurdistan, I was given a grant from a program set up by Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, which provided free education at one of the best schools in Kurdistan, Shuwayfat High School, for the top 20 students,” explained Muhsin. Having excelled academically during his time in high school Muhsin was asked to fill in applications to 14 top universities around the world. “Some universities enticed me with a $70,000 discount, but I chose Stanford University because it is the best university in the world,” added the young student. Muhsin became the first Iraqi to study at Stanford University and one of the five Middle Easterners in that institution. “Each student pays $60,000 annually, although my overall yearly spending in the US is almost $ 70,000. For this reason I would like to express my gratitude to PM Barzani, for his continuous financial support,” explained Muhsin. The young man, however, criticizes the Ministry of Education in Kurdistan for their lack of support throughout his education. “I am very proud of my family and the fact that I am studying here is a sign that money is not the only medium for getting to where you want to go,” he added. Muhsin plans to continue with this higher education and enroll in a Master’s degree as well as a Phd, in order to ultimately serve Kurdistan. The Kurdish student was recently mentioned in Kathleen Buckstaff’s article in the Huffington Post “Flag on Dorm Room Wall Signifies Resilience of Kurdish People”.
	-"the best reward for martyrs is to continue their path..." Dr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou


Pker2theend	23rd January 2014 - 02:49 AM Post #31
Pêşrew Posts: 519 Group: Senior Members Member #276 Joined: Oct 25, 2013	Good story but Stanford is not the best school in North America I don't even think it's top 10



Zagros	7th February 2014 - 05:40 AM Post #32
Serheng Posts: 1,267 Group: Elite Member #235 Joined: Sep 8, 2013 Mood None	Canada bans Syrian Kurdish singer from traveling to U.S. February 6, 2014 TORONTO,— Canadian authorities at the Toronto International Airport have prevented Syrian Kurdish singer Xêro Abbas from visiting the United States. Abbas, a German citizen, was expected to hold a concert in the U.S. for the anniversary of the formation of the first Kurdish republic in 1946 in Muhabad, an Iranian Kurdish city. Abbas previously held two concerts in Canadian cities Vancouver and Toronto. He was on his way to perform in Washington when Toronto authorities reportedly refused to let him travel to the U.S. without giving an explanation. Abbas and his accompanying entourage were arrested for a week after airport officials in Toronto asked Abbas what was in his bag and Abbas jokingly answered, “There is a bomb in my bag.” Abbas is known to be close to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), which both Canada and the U.S. still classify as a terrorist group. There have been numerous cases in the past of Kurdish artists with close ties to the PKK being denied entry to the U.S., that of famous Kurdish singer Shivan Perwer being one of the most notable. On August 16, 2009, Sivan Perwer and three members of his film crew were arrested en route to a performance at the Toronto Kurdish Community Center by Canadian police (OPP) near Niagara Falls . The OPP were operating on an anonymous tip that a weapon had been spotted in the black Hummer the men were traveling in. Once OPP established that the weapon in question was actually camera equipment being used to film footage for an upcoming Kurdish television program, the men were released from custody. "We were just filming Canada 's countryside, and then there were guns everywhere! One policeman said, 'I will shoot . . . I will kill you now!' It hurt our honor. It hurt a lot," said a visibly shaken Sivan Perwer in an interview shortly after the incident in 2009. Since it was established in 1984 the PKK has been fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to establish an autonomous Kurdistan region and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds, who make up around 22.5 million of the country's 75-million population, its goal to political autonomy. A large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with PKK rebels. The PKK wants constitutional recognition for the Kurds, regional self-governance and Kurdish-language education in schools. PKK's demands included releasing PKK detainees, lifting the ban on education in Kurdish, paving the way for an autonomous democrat Kurdish system within Turkey, stopping military action against the Kurdish party and recomposing the Turkish constitution. Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish language and private Kurdish language courses with the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish politicians say the measures fall short of their expectations. The Turkish state launched clandestine peace talks with the group in 2012 which led to the rebels declaring a ceasefire in March 2013. http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/2/syriakurd1049.htm?
	Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.


ALAN	7th February 2014 - 06:13 AM Post #33
Posts: 18,443 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Nov 16, 2012 Mood Cool	The Story of the first Kurdish-Greek soldier 06.02.2014 Muhammad Taha A large number of Kurds migrated to Greece and other parts of Europe in the early 90s as a result of the civil war being fought between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in South Kurdistan. Pishtiwan Jaf and his family immigrated to Greece in 1993, where he enrolled in a Greek school at the age of seven. After several years with a legal residency in Greece, Jaf obtained a Greek nationality, becoming one of the first Greek Kurds. Following a degree in journalism, the Greek army called the young Kurd to offer his services to the Greek Forces in 2010. For the first time in history, a Kurd had become a soldier in Greece. ‘’I felt great when I got the letter to present myself in the Greek Army. I wanted to offer my services as a Greek soldier but with Kurdish origin’’ Jaf told BasNews. ‘‘It was a new experience for me, of course it was a little difficult at first, but I quickly got in the mood of the army,’’ he added. Jaf explained to BasNews that although he was a foreigner and a Muslim, he never faced instances of racism and was regarded as equal to other Greeks. ‘’I remember being called into my captain’s office and how happy he was to hear that I was Kurdish. He said that it was the first time the Greek army had enrolled a Kurd. He said it was a pleasure for him to be my captain.” Military service in Greece is mandatory for men, this may be postponed if the person is studying or has a serious illness. Jaf was sent to the infantry in Transmissions department, where he served nine months. ‘’The first month in the army was good, I was in the military camp in Kalamata, Western Greece, with 700 soldiers. I never felt inferior, they all treated me as an equal. I can say that I felt more Greek than the Greeks,’’ he said to BasNews. ‘’When I held a gun in my hands for first time, it felt strange. I didn’t like it very much. I have never liked violence and weapons. But I had to get used to it. I made many friends, I met with excellent officers and all of them liked me’’. After the first month, Pishtiwan was relocated to Xanthi, North of Athens, close to the border with Turkey, where he stayed for five months. ‘’In Xanthi they sent me along with three other soldiers and a sergeant, to a mountain near the border with Turkey. We were alone in a small military camp on a high mountain. There, each soldier had his own responsibility. I had my gun, a G3A3, with a full magazine with 18 cartridges. Every night I looked around with binoculars, to see if the Turkish soldiers would come closer to Greek border ... but I was more confident that I would see Kurdish refugees, then the Turkish army’’. ‘’There were times when I felt lonely, but my mother always supported me and called me on the phone, this gave me strength and courage”. In 2011 he completed his military service and received a certificate stating that the young Kurd had completed his obligations, the certificate also read: “In case of war, we will call you again.” http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/The-Story-of-the-first-Kurdish-Greek-soldier/12190
	Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour through the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip and his studies later in 1879, in the fourth volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50 thousand people, and he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen and Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.


Pker2theend	7th February 2014 - 07:54 AM Post #34
Pêşrew Posts: 519 Group: Senior Members Member #276 Joined: Oct 25, 2013	Zagros 7th February 2014 - 05:40 AM Canada bans Syrian Kurdish singer from traveling to U.S. February 6, 2014 TORONTO,— Canadian authorities at the Toronto International Airport have prevented Syrian Kurdish singer Xêro Abbas from visiting the United States. Abbas, a German citizen, was expected to hold a concert in the U.S. for the anniversary of the formation of the first Kurdish republic in 1946 in Muhabad, an Iranian Kurdish city. Abbas previously held two concerts in Canadian cities Vancouver and Toronto. He was on his way to perform in Washington when Toronto authorities reportedly refused to let him travel to the U.S. without giving an explanation. Abbas and his accompanying entourage were arrested for a week after airport officials in Toronto asked Abbas what was in his bag and Abbas jokingly answered, “There is a bomb in my bag.” Abbas is known to be close to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), which both Canada and the U.S. still classify as a terrorist group. There have been numerous cases in the past of Kurdish artists with close ties to the PKK being denied entry to the U.S., that of famous Kurdish singer Shivan Perwer being one of the most notable. On August 16, 2009, Sivan Perwer and three members of his film crew were arrested en route to a performance at the Toronto Kurdish Community Center by Canadian police (OPP) near Niagara Falls . The OPP were operating on an anonymous tip that a weapon had been spotted in the black Hummer the men were traveling in. Once OPP established that the weapon in question was actually camera equipment being used to film footage for an upcoming Kurdish television program, the men were released from custody. "We were just filming Canada 's countryside, and then there were guns everywhere! One policeman said, 'I will shoot . . . I will kill you now!' It hurt our honor. It hurt a lot," said a visibly shaken Sivan Perwer in an interview shortly after the incident in 2009. Since it was established in 1984 the PKK has been fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to establish an autonomous South Kurdistan and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds, who make up around 22.5 million of the country's 75-million population, its goal to political autonomy. A large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with PKK rebels. The PKK wants constitutional recognition for the Kurds, regional self-governance and Kurdish-language education in schools. PKK's demands included releasing PKK detainees, lifting the ban on education in Kurdish, paving the way for an autonomous democrat Kurdish system within Turkey, stopping military action against the Kurdish party and recomposing the Turkish constitution. Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish language and private Kurdish language courses with the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish politicians say the measures fall short of their expectations. The Turkish state launched clandestine peace talks with the group in 2012 which led to the rebels declaring a ceasefire in March 2013. http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/2/syriakurd1049.htm? He was in Vancouver that's wierd...



Zagros	7th February 2014 - 07:59 AM Post #35
Serheng Posts: 1,267 Group: Elite Member #235 Joined: Sep 8, 2013 Mood None	Pker2theend 7th February 2014 - 07:54 AM Zagros 7th February 2014 - 05:40 AM Canada bans Syrian Kurdish singer from traveling to U.S. February 6, 2014 TORONTO,— Canadian authorities at the Toronto International Airport have prevented Syrian Kurdish singer Xêro Abbas from visiting the United States. Abbas, a German citizen, was expected to hold a concert in the U.S. for the anniversary of the formation of the first Kurdish republic in 1946 in Muhabad, an Iranian Kurdish city. Abbas previously held two concerts in Canadian cities Vancouver and Toronto. He was on his way to perform in Washington when Toronto authorities reportedly refused to let him travel to the U.S. without giving an explanation. Abbas and his accompanying entourage were arrested for a week after airport officials in Toronto asked Abbas what was in his bag and Abbas jokingly answered, “There is a bomb in my bag.” Abbas is known to be close to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), which both Canada and the U.S. still classify as a terrorist group. There have been numerous cases in the past of Kurdish artists with close ties to the PKK being denied entry to the U.S., that of famous Kurdish singer Shivan Perwer being one of the most notable. On August 16, 2009, Sivan Perwer and three members of his film crew were arrested en route to a performance at the Toronto Kurdish Community Center by Canadian police (OPP) near Niagara Falls . The OPP were operating on an anonymous tip that a weapon had been spotted in the black Hummer the men were traveling in. Once OPP established that the weapon in question was actually camera equipment being used to film footage for an upcoming Kurdish television program, the men were released from custody. "We were just filming Canada 's countryside, and then there were guns everywhere! One policeman said, 'I will shoot . . . I will kill you now!' It hurt our honor. It hurt a lot," said a visibly shaken Sivan Perwer in an interview shortly after the incident in 2009. Since it was established in 1984 the PKK has been fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to establish an autonomous South Kurdistan and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds, who make up around 22.5 million of the country's 75-million population, its goal to political autonomy. A large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with PKK rebels. The PKK wants constitutional recognition for the Kurds, regional self-governance and Kurdish-language education in schools. PKK's demands included releasing PKK detainees, lifting the ban on education in Kurdish, paving the way for an autonomous democrat Kurdish system within Turkey, stopping military action against the Kurdish party and recomposing the Turkish constitution. Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish language and private Kurdish language courses with the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish politicians say the measures fall short of their expectations. The Turkish state launched clandestine peace talks with the group in 2012 which led to the rebels declaring a ceasefire in March 2013. http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/2/syriakurd1049.htm? He was in Vancouver that's wierd... Maybe he was his clone.
	Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.


chivaz serko	8th February 2014 - 06:48 PM Post #36
BANNED Posts: 318 Group: Senior Members Member #245 Joined: Sep 11, 2013 Mood None	at the request of the big mac eaters. they don't want Kurdish nationalism to spread even when it's against their enemies too(iran)



Pker2theend	9th February 2014 - 04:07 AM Post #37
Pêşrew Posts: 519 Group: Senior Members Member #276 Joined: Oct 25, 2013	The idiot said he had a bomb in the airport



Pker2theend	9th February 2014 - 01:29 PM Post #38
Pêşrew Posts: 519 Group: Senior Members Member #276 Joined: Oct 25, 2013	It was not xero Abbas that was arrested it was a member of his entourage.



FeyliKurd	19th February 2014 - 06:32 AM Post #39
Serheng Posts: 1,491 Group: Elite Member #23 Joined: Dec 17, 2012	Kurdistan TV: Seminar on Feyli Kurds in Stockholm - February 15, 2014 Very interesting and informative.
	Bijî Gerîla! Bijî Pêşmerge!


Zagros	22nd February 2014 - 09:08 PM Post #40
Serheng Posts: 1,267 Group: Elite Member #235 Joined: Sep 8, 2013 Mood None	Kurdish Girl Fighting Deportation at the Center of Media, Political Focus in Denmark COPENHAGEN, Denmark – An 18-year-old Kurdish girl is at the center of media and political focus in Denmark: The government wants her deported on grounds she cannot successfully integrate, and she says that in four years in the country she has mastered the language, topped her school grades and her entire family lives in Denmark. Danish authorities want Songul Yuksel returned to her roots in Konya, Turkey, because they say she does not meet requirements for a residence permit. In their response to Yuksel’s application, immigration authorities wrote that she cannot “achieve such ties with Denmark that is the basis for a successful integration in this country.” “Songul Yuksel had stayed in Turkey until 2009, and she attended school in Turkey for nine years. She entered for the first time in Denmark at the age of 14, and currently is an adult and should be able to take care of herself,” says Ozlem Akar of the Danish Immigration Service. But several politicians have challenged the case on the basis of her language skills, school marks and family ties in Denmark. As things stand, within one month she must leave family and friends in Denmark and go live with a sick, 80-year-old grandmother in Turkey whom she says she barely knows. She must obey the deportation order or risk arrest by Danish police. The authorities say that Yuksel’s mother lives in Turkey and should be able to take care of the girl. But her files show that her mother had divorced Yuksel’s father and remarried. According to Denmark’s Politiken newspaper, the girl has top marks in Danish social studies and literature. "I came out of high school with top marks. If this is not integration, what is integration? I do not understand,” Yuksel was quoted as saying. Politicians across the political divide believe that the Kurdish girl should be allowed to stay. "It is incomprehensible that one does not believe that a girl, who gets top marks, can get integrated,” said Karina Lorentzen, an MP from the Socialist People's Party. "When you're so good at social studies and literature, it shows that you have a keen interest in and knowledge of how Danish society is organized,” said Inger Støjberg from the Liberal Party said. The Social Democrat Lars Aslan Rasmussen, who has a Kurdish father and Danish mother, believes that the whole case reflects a double standard. He notes that members of the radical Islamist groups such as Hizb ul-Tahrir, which wants to impose Sharia rule and whose members have been convicted of anti-Semitism, cannot be deported because they have Danish citizenship, while Yuksel has to look forward to deportation. "Members of Hizb ul-Tahrir, convicted of threatening Danish Jews, may well be in Denmark, while a successful high school girl should not. It is incomprehensible and unjust," says Rasmussen. The criticism has meant that Denmark's Justice Minister Karen Haekkerup has now stepped into the fray. She will now discuss the case with other political parties and see if the law can be changed and Yuksel may be allowed to stay. "Most people can see that it is terrible to send a young girl out to an uncertain future far away from her family," Haekkerup told reporters, while refusing to promise that she can have the girl remain in Denmark. Meanwhile, the right-wing Danish People's Party says that reversing the deportation is not the right way to proceed. The party’s Martin Henriksen says that if the law is changed for Yuksel, it would mean that anyone who can make a case in the media can manipulate the law. - See more at: http://rudaw.net/english/world/22022014#sthash.jG33K5GA.nvQYKpdM.dpuf
	Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.


RawandKurdistani	22nd February 2014 - 10:19 PM Post #41
Surchi/Xoshnawi Posts: 2,578 Group: Moderators Member #3 Joined: Nov 17, 2012 Mood None	Yeah, these days it's close to impossible to gain a residence permit in Denmark. They may listen to you if you're a persecuted homosexual or something (Seriously) otherwise Sweden offers much better chances. I don't blame this is on racism though cough Danish People's Party cough It's the fact that so many Young Middle Easterners here are completely uneducated and lost fools, frankly a plague on the society. It's sad that we Kurds have to suffer because of these Turks and Arabs here. By the way, I'm not saying all Turks or Arabs are like this, but the numbers are beyond noticeable. Edited by RawandKurdistani, 22nd February 2014 - 10:43 PM.
	I am confused by God's wisdom: In this world of States Why have the Kurds remained Stateless, dispossessed, What for have they all become fugitives, condemned? Ahmad Khani


Zagros	22nd February 2014 - 10:27 PM Post #42
Serheng Posts: 1,267 Group: Elite Member #235 Joined: Sep 8, 2013 Mood None	According to the article, the girl is educated. I have no idea, what is the problem with her.
	Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.


RawandKurdistani	22nd February 2014 - 10:41 PM Post #43
Surchi/Xoshnawi Posts: 2,578 Group: Moderators Member #3 Joined: Nov 17, 2012 Mood None	Zagros 22nd February 2014 - 10:27 PM According to the article, the girl is educated. I have no idea, what is the problem with her. Denmark just has a really tough policy on immigration. Even Putin, the president of Russia, accused this government of being racist. Racist parties like the Danish People's party have gained too much influence, they bring shame over the Danish people. Edited by RawandKurdistani, 22nd February 2014 - 10:43 PM.
	I am confused by God's wisdom: In this world of States Why have the Kurds remained Stateless, dispossessed, What for have they all become fugitives, condemned? Ahmad Khani


Zagros	22nd February 2014 - 10:48 PM Post #44
Serheng Posts: 1,267 Group: Elite Member #235 Joined: Sep 8, 2013 Mood None	I thought Denmark is the role model of democracy and they are liberal.
	Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.


RawandKurdistani	22nd February 2014 - 11:01 PM Post #45
Surchi/Xoshnawi Posts: 2,578 Group: Moderators Member #3 Joined: Nov 17, 2012 Mood None	It is for the most part, but racist people will always be present, and sadly they've gained a tighter grip around here. Edited by RawandKurdistani, 22nd February 2014 - 11:02 PM.
	I am confused by God's wisdom: In this world of States Why have the Kurds remained Stateless, dispossessed, What for have they all become fugitives, condemned? Ahmad Khani


Dalaho	27th February 2014 - 12:44 AM Post #46
Têkoşer Posts: 2,764 Group: Elite Member #36 Joined: Jan 9, 2013 Mood Coldturkey	Kurdish family returns to Amed after 130 years Last week, after 130 years, a relative of Ali Saido Goran, known as Saido al-Kurdi in Jordan, returned to his family’s homeland in Amed, a Kurdish city in Northern Kurdistan. BasNews spent time with Abdulwadud al-Kurdi AbdulRahman, listening about his journey to his family’s village of origin, Larghi, which is close to the town of Egil near Amed. AbdulRahman is the grandson of Saido Goran and his family’s story, of being forced to leave their homeland, is part of the larger Kurdish story which has taken place over the last two hundred years. Goran’s story begins in 1880, when his family was asked by Ottoman officials to move from Amed to Wstern Kurdistan. Their duty was to supervise the train line, which crossed the Iraq-Syria border en-route to Jordan. Following the declaration and independence of Jordan, Goran’s family played a large role in the country. Goran, who graduated from the Political Science Department of the American University of Beirut in Lebanon in 1930, was quickly posted to a high diplomatic position in the Jordanian government. Other members of Goran’s family also held important positions with the government. Goran published many books over the years about Kurdish culture, language, and geography. One of his most famous works is “Gashtek la Ammanawa to Amedi” which means “A Journey from Amman to Amedi”. Amedi is a small a town in the South Kurdistan of Iraq. The book was published in 1932 and contains valuable demographic information about South Kurdish cities, especially Kirkuk. Despite the family’s success in Jordan, the desire to return to their homeland remained close to their hearts. After the family had been living in Jordan for some time, the older generation requested that other family members track down relatives who were still living in Amed. In March 1958, Goran received a letter from one of his cousins, Hadi Zulfi. Zulfi passed on what information he had about family relatives. To his knowledge, every member of the family had left Laghri because of the Armenian Genocide. After holding various high governmental posts, Goran became Jordan’s ambassador to Turkey in Ankara in 1965. In addition to his diplomatic duties, Goran continued searching for his family. It was during this period that he learnt that in addition to his relatives leaving Laghiri, they had also left Egil and Amed to migrate to Sarekani in what is today known as Western Kurdistan. Though the political situation at the time did not allow Goran the freedom to visit his father’s cousins, he began regular correspondence with them via letters. According to villagers, Goran’s cousins were asked by the government to take part in the Armenian massacre, but they refused to. Their village was subsequently controlled and the family was forced to leave the country; they fled to Syria seeking refuge. The letter dating from 1958 was kept as evidence to later give the family living in Jordan a chance to visit their relatives in Syria. In Jordan, many well-known figures emerged from Goran’s family. Ali Hussni Saido al-Kurdi became the Mayor of Amman, Mustafa Saido was advisor to the Jordanian Emirate, Ali Saido wrote the constitution of Jordan, and Ashraf al-Kurdi was known as the Jordanian King’s Family Doctor. In 1988, the reputation of the family was further bolstered when they established “Al-Kurdi Group”. The group, which specialized in economy and industry, was run by Goran’s nieces and increased the role of Kurds in the country. Al-Kurdi Group went on to become well-known in trade and production activities in Jordan. Both Abdoun Mall and Mecca Mall were built and ran by Kurdish brothers from the group Abdulwadud and Omeda AbdulRahman. The establishment of the group helped Jordanians foster greater trust towards Kurds, reinforcing Kurdish pride in their identity. Out of this, the Salahaddin al-Ayubi Organization was established to develop Kurdish cultural activities in Jordan and bring all Kurds in the country under one umbrella. The organization ultimately resulted in the building of strong relations with the South Kurdistan. Abdulwadud AbdulRahman, who graduated from Engineering Science in the UK, has made extra efforts to have close ties with the South Kurdistan. AbdulRahman first opened a trade center in Aleppo, Syria, called Shahba Mall and later started up trade activities in Erbil, the capital of the South Kurdistan of Iraq. Last Monday, AbdulRahman returned to Diyarbakir, Turkey, via Erbil through the Ibrahim Khalil Border Crossing. The crossing is located on the border of the South Kurdistan of Iraq and Turkey. He had previously located his village using Google Earth and recorded his journey by car all the way from the border through to Diyarbakir and then to his family’s village, Laghari, near the town of Egil. One he arrived to the village, AbdulRahman said he was overcome with emotion. He said that he felt he had found his way toward paradise, and that his heart and eyes experienced a true sense of complete happiness. “I cried because of the unlimited internal happiness in my heart that I had finally made my father, uncles, grandparents and the rest of my family’s dream come true,” AbdulRahman explained. In the village, people gathered around AbdulRahman, but his appearance was unfamiliar to them. The residents then explained to him that they had settled their some 40 years earlier, and that others had lived in the village before them. Some villagers reportedly mistook AbdulRahman as being an Armenian returnee in search of clues from the past. He noted that once he explained his story to the villagers, they took him to an 80-year-old man named Hamza Pollat in the neighboring village who knew a great deal about the history of Laghari village. AbdulRahman visited Pollat and gave him the names of some of his relatives. But among all those he described, Pollat only knew of a man named Sa’ad, who sadly had passed away only ten days before Abdurrahman’s arrival to Laghari. However, after further searching, one of Sa’ad’s sons, Bahjat, was located. Bahjat closely resembled AbdulRahman in appearance, and once they examined and compared each other’s identity documents it was proven that they belonged to the same family. Last Thursday, the family met and told their stories to each other. AbdulRahman learnt that Goran’s long lost relatives were now living in bad conditions, like many other Kurdish families in the Kurdish inhabited areas of Turkey. AbdulRahman immediately provided them with assistance, but has also decided to re-buy the village, or a new village altogether, for his family to provide a better life for them. “Wealthy Kurds should put their money towards the return of other Kurds, ending the violation of our rights and improving our living conditions rather than using their money for unnecessary materialistic things like cars and palaces,” AbdulRahman stressed. He continued, “My heart was secretly fond of a love that I previously didn’t know existed, and today my heart has realized that love.” “Today, I celebrate my Kurdayati (Kurdishness), and I won’t accept any other alternatives,” AbdulRahman noted happily. Edited by Dalaho, 27th February 2014 - 12:44 AM.
	-"the best reward for martyrs is to continue their path..." Dr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou


Dalaho	27th February 2014 - 12:47 AM Post #47
Têkoşer Posts: 2,764 Group: Elite Member #36 Joined: Jan 9, 2013 Mood Coldturkey	Did some more interesting searching http://kurdigroup.jo/ http://walidkurdi.com/: Walid Kurdi is a Jordanian businessman with a track record both of starting his own companies, and successfully managing others, including Royal Jordanian Airlines, of which he was Chairman. Most recently, Mr. Kurdi served as Chairman and CEO of Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC), when he assumed the management of the company for 6 years, following privatization. Despite the marked turnaround of JPMC under his leadership, and the significant progress he achieved, for the past two years, Mr. Kurdi has been under investigation in his native country by anti-corruption officials. A case and numerous baseless charges were brought against Mr. Kurdi in Jordanian court; a case to which he had no legal voice or recourse in the face of allegations that were based on fiction rather than fact. To date, Mr. Kurdi has not spoken in the hopes that the judicial system would separate fact from fiction and exonerate him. Sadly, the case has been more a narrative created with an agenda – to paint Mr. Kurdi in a light inconsistent with the truth, in violation of any principles of justice. As the Court has now issued its verdict of conviction, the family would like to share the facts. The purpose of this website is to offer those who seek to know more about the man and his story the simple, unfiltered truth. You will find here documents, evidence and summary information about the trial, Mr. Kurdi’s story and his work and family.
	-"the best reward for martyrs is to continue their path..." Dr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou


Zagros	1st March 2014 - 05:30 AM Post #48
Serheng Posts: 1,267 Group: Elite Member #235 Joined: Sep 8, 2013 Mood None	Kurdish Asylum Seeker’s Death Exposes Conditions at Australian Refugee Camp TORONTO, Canada – The death of a 23-year-old Iranian-Kurd during a riot at an Australian detention center for asylum seekers has exposed conditions at the Manus Island facility, which a former interpreter has described as worse than a war zone. Reza Barati, who died of multiple head injuries, was sent to the Papua New Guinea (PNG) camp in July, after arriving in Australia as an asylum seeker. He was killed earlier this month, and many other detainees were injured, after violence broke out between guards at the detention center and some of the 1,300 asylum seekers that Australian authorities have banished there as their papers are processed. The incident, and reports of conditions at the center, have caused deep concern among humanitarian workers in Australia and worldwide. Tara Fatehi, the founder and director of the Australian Kurdish Youth Society told Rudaw: “We are locking up innocent civilians and breaking international law, ironically making us criminals, not them. Yet the media and politicians are making this a political football to win votes.” Fatehi, who is a PhD student studying medicine and a volunteer working with refugees and Kurdish children, was the speaker at a candlelight vigil in Adelaide. “This is an absolute tragedy for Australia. This country is built on immigrants. Our ancestors arrived by boat in the country,” she said. Azita Bokan, an interpreter working on Manus Island during the violent clashes who lost her job after protesting at the guards’ treatment of detainees, has decided to speak up. In an interview with ABC Sydney, Bokan described the situation of asylum seekers on Manus as “horrendous.” “Even though I have been to Nauru before and I warmed up a little bit to the condition of the bad camps, I can say that Manus is just a different scale. It is not only the heat, the diseases, the conditions, it's the morale: Mentally, everyone is pretty much not really able to participate and integrate in any society. They are mentally gone. There has been a lack of everything…. Everyone is having massive pain.” Yet, no detainee complains, Bokan said. She explained that was because they were warned they had to be on their best behaviors to be granted asylum. “You know, for someone from outside, when I've gone in I said 'I would prefer to be dead today in a camp than live like this for a day.' But surprise, surprise, everyone was so, so quiet. For days I saw these people living in the best of times, they act (so quietly). Except at nighttime they sing as a bit of a protest, but it's a calm protest. Immigration would not retaliate. But during the day they are just quietly sitting somewhere like they have been injected with some drug - they do nothing.” Bokan reported that just a few days prior to the riot, the detainees were told they would never be able to set foot in Australia or anywhere else. Those people had nothing but hope, and when that was taken away from them, they were left with nothing, she explained. “Immigration came up with the idea to say that we are announcing again that you will not see the land of Australia ever, full stop! You are also not going to have a chance on a third country because there's no third country that has ever stepped forward. Also, the PNG people and the country and condition of economical situation in PNG will never be able to assist you.” The former interpreter said she had lived through the Iran-Iraq war and the Iranian revolution, but what she saw in Manus Island did not compare to what she had previously seen. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report earlier this month, echoing “significant inadequacies in the transfer, treatment and processing of asylum-seekers transferred from Australia to the Assessment Centre at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.” It reveals that 34 children and their families are held captive at the Manus Island center. “UNHCR’s report found that the current policy and practice of detaining all asylum-seekers on a mandatory and indefinite basis, without an individual assessment or possibility for review, amounts to arbitrary detention, which is inconsistent with the obligations of both Australia and PNG under international human rights law.” Barati’s family want answers from the Australian government. “First, we want his body to be returned to Iran and then we want answers, what happened to him? What did they do to him?” Britain’s Guardian newspaper quoted a family member as saying from Iran. Despite the pain and hardship, Barati had told his family that he prefers to stay in an Australian prison for another decade than to return to Iran. He was raised in Lumar, one of many impoverished Kurdish cities in western Iran, in close proximity to the Iraqi border. Australians are deeply concerned about the event and large candlelight vigils have been held. Victoria Roll, a blog writer for the Australian Independent Media Network, had this to say in an open letter to Australian immigration minister Scott Morrison: “No person with a shred of humanity, the sort of humanity needed to qualify as a human, could ever condone what you are doing to the world’s desperate asylum seekers who come to Australia begging for help.” Barati’s death has once again revealed the sufferings of asylum seekers worldwide, among them Kurds. Activists decry that governments willingly accept investment-immigrants from corrupt governments like Iran, but refuse to bother much with the plight of poor asylum seekers like Reza Barati, who have nowhere to go and no place to turn. - See more at: http://rudaw.net/english/world/28022014#sthash.WaoC2svq.dpuf
	Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.


Zagros	1st March 2014 - 05:35 AM Post #49
Serheng Posts: 1,267 Group: Elite Member #235 Joined: Sep 8, 2013 Mood None	German court sentences Metin Aydın to four and a half years in prison ANF - STUTTGART 28.02.2014 14:00:49 Germany, which consistently co-operates with Turkey, has reached another judgment that will hurt the feelings of the Kurds. Kurdish politician Metin Aydın, charged with being a director of Komalen Ciwan, has been handed a 4 and a half year prison sentence. Metin Aydın was arrested in Switzerland in 2011 on the grounds that he was wanted in Germany and extradited the following year. Metin Aydın’s trial, which commenced in August at the Stuttgart High Court, has concluded, with Aydın being found guilty of 'membership of a foreign terrorist organisation'. In the judgment it was claimed 36-year-old Aydın was a leader of Komalen Ciwan who recruited for the PKK from 2008 until he was taken into custody in 2012. Aydın: 'I'm happy because I have struggled for my people' Metin Aydın said in court that he was happy as he had been able to do something for his people, adding that he could not be tried for his struggle. He added that while in Kurdistan his village had been burnt down by troops ad that he had been arrested and tortured. Judge claims: 'this case is not political' The judge in the Stuttgart court said that it was difficult to reach a verdict, saying that it was necessary to think hard regarding countries such as Turkey where human rights violations were a part of daily life. The judge then claimed that the case against Aydın was 'not a political trial of dissidents under surveillance on account of their political views'. The judge added that 'membership of a terrorist organisation' was an offence in Germany. Metin Aydın was arrested in Switzerland on 20 June 2011 at the request of the German authorities. The reason given was Germany including the PKK within the scope of article 129, known as the 'anti-terror' law. He was held in solitary confinement in Switzerland for 16 months solely on the grounds that 'extradition procedures are being carried out'. Aydın went on hunger strike for 54 days in protest at his extradition, almost dying as a result. German police accepted Metin Aydın shackled to his bed in November 2012 after a journey that lasted several hours. Metin Aydın, who has lived in Europe for several years, had an elder brother who previously died in the ranks of the freedom struggle in Kurdistan. http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/german-court-sentences-metin-aydin-to-four-and-a-half-years-in-prison.htm
	Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.


ALAN	8th March 2014 - 06:43 PM Post #50
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	Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour through the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip and his studies later in 1879, in the fourth volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50 thousand people, and he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen and Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.


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