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A
New Era?
This
month's issue explores the bilateral relations between
the Kurdish and Turkish peoples, disregard for ethno-nationalism-based
policies, calls for respect of human rights and the
rejecting of violence. On the flip-side, tension increases
and escalation of violence after a number of events
within Turkey shatter the hopes of the most optimistic
observers.
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Exclusive
Interview: Dr. Fuad Hussein, Chief of Staff to the
Presidency of the Kurdistan Regional Government
Kurdish
Herald sits down with Dr. Fuad Hussein, Chief of Staff
of the President of the Kurdistan Region, for an exclusive
one-on-one interview regarding a number of issues concerning
Kurds in Iraq including delicate relations with Turkey.
Dr. Hussein serves as an official spokesman for the
KRG
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Local
Elections in Diyarbakir, Kurdish Conference in Erbil:
Is There Any Space for Hope? by Siyar Ozsoy
Optimistic
Kurds thought the election victory would put enough
pressure on the Turkish government to begin a dialogue
with the Kurdish DTP for peaceful resolutions, but
recent events in the southeastern region show otherwise.
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Income
Disparities in Southeast Turkey by Natsumi Ajiki
There
is a lot to celebrate about the prospect of KRG-Turkey
relations, however, one cannot dismiss that there are
internal issues that, one, have little or no connection
to Iraqi Kurdistan and two, need to be addressed as
part of Turkey’s attempt to solve its Kurdish
problem. The income disparity of Kurdish and non-Kurdish
regions within Turkey is an inescapable fact that needs
attention.
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Hewler
Post: “How do you spell 'Kurdistan' in Turkish?” by
Servet Tosun
Hewler
Post is a product of the thinking that we need to
hear each other out, the Kurdish message is neither
racist
nor does it threaten Turkey’s security, that
message, however is too often lost in translation.
Hewler Post is the first Turkish publication in Iraqi
Kurdistan, its chief editor stated that there has
never been a time as urgent as now when the Kurds
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Past,
Present and Future of Kurdish Music by Natsumi Ajiki
Growing
up in a multi-ethnic neighborhood, Mr. Aksoy’s
only memory of Kurdish music in his childhood is his
grandmother singing Kurdish songs for her lost husband
in lament with the baglama. Mr. Aksoy expresses the
link between identity and music in a Kurdish context, “music
serves as a medium of expression for the peoples' identities
while music becomes a medium of manifestation for the
Kurds.”
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Letters
of the Diaspora: Ambassador of Kurdish Poetry by
By Vahal A. Abdulrahman
The
only genuine way to hear “the other,” is
to read his poetry, that belief leads the Kurdish poet,
Badal Revo Mizori to translate the poetry of his fellow
Kurmanci-writing poets into Arabic and distributes
them widely through the Arabic World Wide Web circles.
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