Tag: Minorities
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Abdullah Ocalan: His Life and Legacy
Part 1: Birth of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) On February 15, 1999, Turkish forces captured Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in Kenya. Afterward, the Turkish government placed him in Imrali Island Prison with a life sentence. Initially planning to issue the death penalty, Turkey changed the sentence to life in…
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Interview with Dilovan Perwer, an American Soldier of Kurdish Ethnicity
DISCLAIMER: ANY VIEWS COMMUNICATED BY THE INTERVIEWEE ARE THEIR OWN Where to Belong It’s natural to feel an attachment to where someone grew up. We spend much of our lives there, with many vital aspects of our personalities, from the connections we made to our experiences in school, forming in nearly every period of existence.…
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Origin of the Kurds
As we live in an age of nation-states, our world has tied the histories of entire peoples and landscapes to the identity of a single ethnicity in each corner of the world, typically with some form of government made to create laws and institutions to rule in favor of that group. Suppose you live in…
Dengê Çiyayên: Voice of the Mountains 