I'd like to say it was because we deeply believed in the Kurdish cause, but actually we just wanted some good stories for the college bar. |
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There are people in the Kurdish community that would like to see an independent Kurdistan. |
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As Verheugen rightly warned, implementation of new laws on Kurdish language rights and on torture has been slow and patchy. |
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So you're likely looking for those with Kurdish language abilities, not Arabic. |
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The explosions came only hours after the arrest of four Kurdish militants in the city, officials noted. |
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At the receptions, appeals were made for more freedom of speech and legalisation of the Kurdish language. |
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Has that been worked out, or is there still tension within the Kurdish community? |
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There is also a dispute about how much of the petroleum profits would stay in the Kurdish provinces. |
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The bar itself was low, covered in Kurdish weavings, the walls covered by muslin. |
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Another significant change to the law permits private teaching courses in the Kurdish language. |
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It will have two main languages, Arabic and Kurdish, and will be a federal state. |
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We will also fund the development of the blogging tool in Farsi so it may be used in Iran and in Kurdish. |
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On December 1, both parties announced they will be fielding a joint ticket of candidates under the name of the Kurdish Unity List. |
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Shouts came as a Kurd legislator demanded the oath be read not only in Arabic but in Kurdish, as well. |
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It remains a Kurdish stronghold with most people speaking Kurdish as their first language. |
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It turns out that the head of same is a prominent member of the Australian Kurdish community. |
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There has not been bloodshed, not been a mass call to arms, among the Shia and Kurdish groups. |
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In Turkey most people speak Turkish but there is a large Kurdish minority and traditionally there were many Armenian and Greek speakers. |
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Other languages spoken in Iraq are Turkish, Aramaic, Kurdish, Armenian, and Persian. |
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Spoken instructions come even in the various dialects of Albanian, Kurdish, and Lingala. |
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In the Kurdish Country of the northeast, the land rises steeply into the Zagros Mountains. |
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The northern Kurdish minority in Iraq is not Arab but speaks an Indo-European language, and its religious tendencies are seldom fundamentalist. |
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The Kurdish minority of northern Iraq speaks an Indo-European language very different from the Semitic language of Arabic. |
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Shawlands now has an eclectic mix of places to eat, including a new Italian, two new Indians and a Kurdish restaurant. |
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Clearly, there are other Sunni leaders who people can look to, and the Kurdish region is actually doing quite well. |
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There would be two Shiite provinces, two Sunni Arab provinces, and one Kurdish one. |
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It is fine to boast of one's Kurdish, Berber, Sunni, or Shia loyalties, but not of pan-Arabism. |
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He wrote of the relation of the Kurdish peoples, or some of them, to the ancient Hurrians. |
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The Kurds are more homogeneous than Iraqis as a whole, and yet even in the Kurdish areas, for about four years, there was essentially civil war. |
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Kurdish leaders believe they need the oil fields and the rich agricultural land nearby to keep the region economically independent. |
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It gives one a sense of the endless, rhythmic waves of Kurdish struggles for nationhood. |
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Kurdish specialties include a type of wafer bread eaten for breakfast, and any kind of grain cooked in whey. |
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The area, a focus for the Kurdish revolt against Ankara, is in a military state of emergency. |
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Racist, militarist and chauvinistic policies have exacerbated the Kurdish problem. |
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By the mid-1980s, the Kurdish resistance was reduced from a mass movement to a number of guerrilla bands carrying out hit-and-run raids. |
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Following the expulsion of the Lazarist priests the school is transformed into an orphanage for Armenian, Turkish and Kurdish children. |
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From the late 1980s onwards she became an ardent advocate of the Kurdish cause. |
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Kevin's Kurdish driver, Adnan, had raced his engine and clogged up the carburetor of his Nissan. |
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In 1988 he staged Mountain Language, a play about the banning of Kurdish in Turkey. |
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He accused local Kurdish officials of colluding in the expulsion and displayed an official note, bearing the stamp of the local mayor. |
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By all accounts, the country's best players are to be found in the autonomous Kurdish region in the north. |
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He was wearing plastic sandals, a checked shirt and baggy traditional Kurdish trousers. |
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However, most Kurds raised in southeastern Turkey speak Kurdish as well as Turkish. |
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Kurdish politicians were defiant, rebuffing the Shi'ite alliance's attempts to blame them for the deadlock. |
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Turkey, for example, has abolished the death penalty and legalised broadcasts in Kurdish. |
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It will also lead to private TV and radio stations being allowed to broadcast in Kurdish. |
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In 1945, Kurds set up a Kurdish republic at Mahabad in the Soviet, occupied zone in Iran. |
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Those who are extremely vocal about Kurdish language rights do not fare so well, and sometimes face arrest. |
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The lowering of the death rate in the Kurdish areas is Cortright's final charge. |
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In those regions, the military banned the use of the Kurdish language and Kurdish names. |
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There were no demands by the Kurdish parties or Sistani that he be captured immediately. |
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To the north, Americans and Kurdish fighters took up positions in the no-man's-land south of the Kurdish autonomous region. |
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At her inauguration, she wore a headband decorated with the traditional Kurdish colours, yellow, green and red. |
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The Kurdish insistence on federalism is having repercussions throughout the country. |
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Despite recent riots in the Kurdish areas and signs of labour unrest, Batebi is not very optimistic that change will arrive soon. |
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There is an incredible scene, filmed at night, when the two are helped over snowbound mountains by Kurdish villagers. |
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So far the Kurdish areas have been relatively quiet, with the exception of Kirkuk. |
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Turkish leaders object to any Kurdish grab of Kirkuk, in the country's second biggest oil region and considered by Iraqi Kurds as part of their heartland. |
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While Kurdish forces have advanced on some fronts in Iraq, the fight here in Syria seems far from over yet. |
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Kurdish forces declared victory and freed Yazidi holdouts, with help from U.S. air power. |
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It may be the air war alone that opened the way for the recent Kurdish offensive or it may be the presence of elite ground forces. |
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As Kurdish leaders acknowledge, liberating Mosul is beyond the capability of the peshmerga and government forces will be needed. |
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Idris Nassan, a Kurdish official in Kobani, said the first car bomb killed two people. |
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In the worst of a series of friendly fire incidents, 18 American special forces and their Kurdish allies were killed when they were bombed by a US warplane. |
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A BBC correspondent said between 10 and 12 people were killed Sunday when a U.S. warplane bombed a convoy carrying U.S. Special Forces and Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq. |
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I flew to Turkey on July 7, and made my way on a series of long, weary bus journeys to the Iraq border, manned by both Kurdish and American soldiers. |
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Fellow Kurdish prisoners of conscience in other cities across Iran have followed suit. |
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Erbil, the Iraqi Kurdish capital, is home to a U.S. consulate and thousands of U.S. citizens working in the oil industry. |
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Nothing but watch, that is, and prevent Kurdish reinforcements from crossing the frontier to help defend Kobani. |
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I also took my life in my hands by visiting a Kurdish barber. |
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The restrictions on the Kurdish language have been only minimally changed. |
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The court proceedings were relayed to Amin in Kurdish by an interpreter. |
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He travelled in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq, including the Yazidi region of Jabal Sinjar in the north-west, producing over 1,200 photographs. |
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The PKK has been fighting for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern Turkey since 1984 in a war that has cost more than 40,000 lives. |
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They also emboldened the Kurdish defenders, who are lightly armed and fending off heavy armor. |
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Every other day, you would see demonstrations and Kurdish flags along side flags of the Syrian revolution. |
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Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq say they have freed about 100 Yazidi women. |
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Iraq gassed the Iranian army repeatedly and then turned the weapons on its own Kurdish population. |
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In Gaziantep, where there is a small Kurdish population, Thursday night the streets were filled with the sounds of urban battle. |
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In the Kurdish area, tourism offers a glimmer of hope in a region crippled by decades of violence. |
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In 1988 Saddam Hussein used gas to slaughter thousands of men, women, and children in the Kurdish city of halabja. |
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Since the 1970s, a growing number of Kurds have rediscovered their non-Turkish roots, based in part on Kurdish, an Indo-European language related to Persian. |
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More than 10 million Kurds live in Iran and Tehran fears Iraqi Kurdish statehood will encourage unrest among their own Kurds. |
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But if Kobani falls it could well end up re-igniting the 30-year long Kurdish insurgency inside Turkey. |
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During the intense firefight that followed, four Kurdish fighters died, including three of Ahmed's cousins. |
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Moments after twin sisters Pembe and Jamila are born in a Kurdish village, their mother falls into a 40-day silence. |
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Instead, these officials say, the U.S. must rely on jordanian assets and Kurdish fighters in Syria for on the ground information. |
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At the time, the Kurdish Peshmerga did take up positions in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, where they remain to this day. |
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Over the past several days, Kurdish Peshmerga forces have massed in the thousands around the northern approaches to Zumar. |
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That message was underlined this weekend as well when the United States began sending arms directly to Kurdish Peshmerga forces. |
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In the twelfth century, the great Kurdish conqueror Saladin built the Citadel, a fortress on a hill above Cairo, using the labor of captured Crusaders. |
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Like the anti-Assad rebels and Kurdish fighters, they are pleading for more of America, not less. |
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The yezidis consider themselves ethnically Kurdish, the majority in areas surrounding Mosul, within Arab Iraq. |
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But there are also Kurdish elements opposed to the peace process eager to stir the pot. |
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Amidst the rampage, Iraqi officers and soldiers abandoned critical outposts in and around the Kurdish majority city of Kirkuk. |
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With reinforcements arriving from its Syrian factions, the group began their assault on the Kurdish Peshmerga. |
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Today their leader, Masoud Barzani, issued a general call-up for retired Kurdish fighters to rejoin the peshmerga. |
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I have Kurdish friends and they usually write with Latin characters. |
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Kurdish workers are busy on the control tower and service buildings. |
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The new constitution was backed by the Shia and Kurdish communities, but was rejected by Arab Sunnis. |
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Army managed to build and lead the Kurdish Peshmerga into an effective force and assault for the North. |
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Furthermore, Kurdish is now an official language of Iraq alongside Arabic according to Article 4 of the constitution. |
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Ohashi obtained the report as the immigration officials were using it as evidence to support their case against a Kurdish asylum seeker. |
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The most used immigrant languages are Turkish, Kurdish, Polish, the Balkan languages, and Russian. |
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The British were aided in Mesopotamia by local Arab and Assyrian tribesmen, while the Ottomans employed local Kurdish and Turcoman tribes. |
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For example, some Kurds say that they have Kurdish nationality, even though there is no Kurdish sovereign state at this time in history. |
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It cropped up on a Kurdish channel and on a local German channel. |
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I commend Kurdish and Yezidi fighters for their determined and sustained efforts to reclaim the town. |
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A local Kurdish farmer later took me to a border spot near his farmhouse. |
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The Yazidis are a Kurdish religious community predominantly living in the Nineveh province of northern Iraq. |
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There was no immediate con-firmation by Kurdish officials of the air-drop or what weapons it included. |
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Pinter's experiences in Turkey and his knowledge of the Turkish suppression of the Kurdish language inspired his 1988 play Mountain Language. |
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Varieties of Kurdish is widely spoken in the province of Kurdistan and nearby areas. |
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It is true that second-generation Kurdish nationalists and PKK members usually come from displaced families. |
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In Kermanshah or Kurdistan, we can speak of learning Kurdish by Persian speakers as a second rather than foreign language. |
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At a hermitage on a mountain near Sinjar, he met a Kurdish mystic who gave him some silver coins. |
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In the autumn 1244, Yisaur concentrated the Mongol forces in the upper Tigris valley where they subjugated the Kurdish province of Akhlat. |
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The Arabic language and the Kurdish language are the two official languages of Iraq. |
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The US keeps reminding us about the poison gas attack on the Kurdish village of Halabja, carried out by Saddam. |
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Barroso and Erdogan also discussed the Kurdish peace process and the situation in Syria, Egypt, Iran, South Caucasus, and Westerns Balkan. |
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Army Special Forces joint teams and the Kurdish Peshmerga constituted the entire northern force against government forces during the invasion. |
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In 1919, Churchill sanctioned the use of tear gas on Kurdish tribesmen in Iraq. |
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The coalition forces also received support from Kurdish irregulars in Iraqi Kurdistan. |
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The idea of allowing a Kurdish statelet to evolve, perhaps eventually joining with Iraqi Kurdistan, is anathema to the Turks. |
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How real, feasible and immediate are the prospects of a Kurdish statelet led by the Kurdistan Workers' Party in the northeastern part of Syria? |
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Also, the next Hobby Lobbys, female Kurdish fighters and more. |
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The supplies were provided by Kurdish authorities, the official said. |
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Tuz Khurmatu, densely populated by Turkmens, lies within territory administered by the Kurdish Regional Government. |
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Kurdish nationalism is attempting to destroy common denominators with other ethnic groups in Turkey. |
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There are still a lot of noneffective, counterfeit medicines in the Kurdish market that don't give you the product you think you're getting. |
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Dempsey later flew to Irbil, capital of Iraq's largely autonomous northern Kurdish region, where he met with Kurdish President Massoud Barzani. |
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He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May. |
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The Kriti Jade tanker loaded Kurdish crude in Turkey and then sailed to Ashkelon on March 3 and Haifa a few days later. |
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On the other hand, English is a foreign language for both groups, because there is no contact between Kurdish and Persian people with English people. |
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The various sectarian militias and Kurdish pershmerga will be three sheets to the wind and bolstered by the training, weapons and successes they have inherited. |
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The PKK leader, who serves a life sentence on Imrali island, in the Sea of Marmara, reached a framework agreement with the Turkish intelligence to solve the Kurdish problem. |
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Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters took control of the Rabia border crossing in a battle that began before dawn, an Iraqi Kurdish political source said. |
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For example, Persian is a second language for Kurdish people, but not vice versa, because there is no Kurdish environment for Persian speakers who are learning Kurdish. |
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Idriss Naasan, a senior Kurdish official in the Turkish town of Mursitpinar, confirmed that the Kurdish fighters had received the airdrop and asked for more weapons. |
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Wildcatters in the chilly waters of the Arctic or the Kurdish mountains, or giants of oil business such as Total and Shell, tend to get headlines. |
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The retaking of the two towns in Nineveh province is the first victory by the Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, who until now have been in retreat. |
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In 1988, poison gas was used on the Kurdish town of Halabja, killing 5,000 civilians and causing environmental poisoning that still affects babies today. |
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On 6 April 2003, ODA 391 and ODA 392 from the 3rd SFG and ODA 044 from 10th SFG with about 150 Kurdish fighters were the main force involved in the Battle of Debecka Pass. |
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Arab Iraqis might not mind Kurdish independence as much as some expect. |
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Their homeland is primarily occupied by the Kurdish autonomous region. |
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The Arabs, many of whom were moved to the area by Saddam in his campaign to Arabise Kurkuk and dilute Kurdish influence, are fighting for their own stake in the new Iraq. |
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Brwant Nisan Markos, a Kurdish MP from the Armenian bloc stated that they? |
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What is more, the traditionally Turcoman cities of Mosul and especially Kirkuk are now becoming Kurdish cities and Turcomans have been eliminated in one way or another. |
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Iraqi nationalist politicians in Baghdad and their allies among Kirkuk's Arab and Turcoman populations allege that the Kurdish parties have tampered with the voter rolls. |
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However, in the ONS's testing in England and Wales prior to the census, no Kurdish, Iranian, Berber, Somali or Egyptian participants chose to identify as Arab. |
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