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First of all they stopped being Marxist-Leninist in 1999 so they are no longer really doing anything related to a Maoist communist insurgency for the last 15 years especially since they are officially anti-statist now. Second of all anything on the internet related to the PKK-Turkey conflict is bombarded with misinformation and outright propaganda from ultra-nationalists Turks who swarm and brigade outlets of informations to spread their skewed warped version. Yes the PKK has commited some regretful attacks on questionable targets in the past, but the vast majority of their operations where against Turkish military and police installations and against the collaborating Village Gaurds. Most of the civilian attacks classically and recently blamed on the PKK where in fact either false flags committed by the Turkish military, police, MIT, Turkish death squads and especially the jash Village Gaurds, or by a splinter rogue group known as TAK who constantly criticize the PKK tactics and specifically target civilian and tourist areas. All of those attacks where blamed on the PKK by the Turkish media and their never ending propaganda machine. Here are just a couple items discussing the false flag attacks to this day blamed unjustly blamed on the PKK.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/09/turkey-iraq-peace-process-kurdish-village-guards.html#

https://books.google.com/books?id=rCsABwAAQBAJ&pg=PA17&lpg=PP1&focus=viewport&output=html_text

KCK and KDP should not fight. With the current situation, I try to remain neutral as far as that goes, except when it's apparent someone's trying to stir the pot. I suppose this has made me start to insult Basnews and Rudaw as they have clearly been working to ferment conflict with some of their articles.

With regards to the rape allegations...there is so much propaganda flying around I'm not sure if they're true...and if they are, this would be an example of bad individuals, not of all Pesh.

When considering Yazidi-discontent / the 'Shingal canton' issue, it's worth noting that this is not a new thing, and that it seems not so much seperatism as a desire for local control... in which the Yazidi themselves are divided.

Medes and Iranians were part of the same etho-linguistic group.

> Maybe that's because they grew up in the West, I don't know.

The Greeks were the ones who called them Persians. Iranians in the West call themselves Persian because of the negative associations of Iran.

Yeah, perhaps you should try reading up on him. 'Saladin et les Kurdes', if you know French, is pretty good.

Yes, he was culturally Arabized, but under his rule (and the Ayyubids as whole) Kurds were employed in great numbers in the army, and also as religious scholars, jurists and other notable positions. It was thus that Aleppo and Damascus, two large urban centers, got their Kurdish quarters.

It was also during this time period that some of the earliest cases of Kurdish ethnic identity and solidarity are seen. For examples of these 'Arab Ethnonyms (‘Ajam, ‘Arab, Badū and Turk): The Kurdish Case as a Paradigm for Thinking about Differences in the Middle Ages' is a great article, if you can access it. Otherwise this article is fine as well: https://www.academia.edu/181103/Uses_and_Values_of_the_Term_Kurd_in_Arabic_Medieval_Literary_Sources

The Ayyubids' rule probably was the Kurds' best time ever really.

Location of the village: Sereshka

This village is just Northeast of Tel Isquf, were Peshmerga crushed an ISIS attack a few days ago.

There are many Kurdish vllages in the northern part of Nineveh Plains, mostly inhabited by Ezidis, who are forgotten by many. These communities are very sensible and vulnerable to attacks, so they must be integrated to KRG, at all costs.

It's ironic that the comments also end up misunderstanding the point of the video. Micro$oft fanboys of course will defend this.

Kurdistan Region is an official region in Iraq, it's literally called Kurdistan in the constitution. Of course Kurdistan also refers to the entire Kurdistan, not just the Iraq part. I would also find it annoying to have to see that error remark when writing, of course if I still used their crappy word document software. Word is dead, I suggest people use alternatives like OpenOffice. It's free and you don't need to go "crack" their software.

I hadn't seen the second question until now, it's explained in this article.

And, for an example of ludicrous these claims can get, check out this site, which lists almost every important tribe as being of Turkish descent.

Wander around in the old city of mardin, visit the museums. Go to midyat and see the remainings of the assyrians. Go to hasankeyf as well. Rent a car if you can.

For Diyarbekir, actually this is pretty accurate. Even for the food!! Buket is my main stop whenever I'm there. To add couple of things, I'd recommend Tigris bridge, Malabadi bridge to see. There are several houses of poets, novelists in the area, you won't know them, but you can see the houses just to get a glimpse of how old and -relatively- rich people lived in the city. I can give a few recommendations regarding the food as well(if you will).

Apart from these, you better speak turkish in diyarbekir if you want to be understood by anyone. Almost 1/4 of the people are of kırmancki speaking background while the others are of kurmanci speaking background, however significant chunk of these people are not bilingual(i.e. they only speak turkish, thanks to assimilation). So Turkish is the common language that surely will be understood by all.

Same does not go for Mêrdin though, but here's the kicker: old mêrdin(which is where you'll spend most of your time) is a small part of the city and mostly inhabited by arabs(I suppose it is 60-40 or something like that). The city itself is very diverse and you can not know whom to face. Although most of them are bilingual, you can face an arab as well as a kurd. Hence, it's better to speak turkish there also. But if you're willing to see how kurds live in the city and speak a little kurdish, go to either Kızıltepe or Nusaybin which are almost fully kurdish and between them they constitute 2/3 of the city.

Hope I helped a little.

Newer than Islam, yes, but it has pre-Islamic elements, probably Mithraic and Manichean, not Zoroastrian.

Check these articles for a discussion on the link between Yezidism and Zoroastrianism:

The Original Kurdish Religion? Kurdish Nationalism and the False Conflation of the Yezidi and Zoroastrian Traditions

and

CO-OPTING THE PROPHET The Politics of Kurdish and Tajik Claims to Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism

Of course, these are the writings of just one scholar, best to check multiple sources; but the recent, academic ones focusing on Yezidism I checked (as opposed to nationalist writings etc.) seem to agree with this view: related to, but not a direct descendant of Zoroastrianism.

Hey, here you can see each party's symbol and if they have split from the original party or are still attached.

Here's some information about (not all parties) some parties.

I will post something here every time we start a new project. But certainly the best way to be updated is to keep an eye on our website, or -- even better -- join our top-view group at https://www.loomio.org/g/7W8ruQX4/amargi-pl

Also, the terrorism laws.

>A visa-free travel deal between the EU and Turkey was on the brink of collapse on Friday night, after Turkey’s president insisted he would not change his country’s anti-terrorism laws, a key condition of the agreement. “We’ll go our way, you go yours,” said Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

>When the European commission made a conditional offer of visa-free travel earlier this week, it said Ankara must rewrite its anti-terrorism laws because they were used to prosecute journalists and government critics.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/06/erdogan-turkey-not-alter-anti-terror-laws-visa-free-travel-eu

This one it really ain't a bad one. The only bad thing is that it isn't just one dialect of Kurmanci but several.

Click this link to sign the petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/117434/sponsors/kstL56jmINbhj0xKZFHr

My petition:

Provide Kurdish forces with extra support. Helmets and night vision to start.

The Kurdish forces have been the singularly most effective force of combating the evils of ISIS. They have taken more ground than any other forces combined, they received assistance of LMGs from the UK and Germany but need extra assistance as IS have captured US equipment and have outside support.

On the 1/1/16 ISIS have made a considerable victory for themselves on the capturing of Iraqi forces US equipment left behind by deserting Iraqi defence forces. The Kurdish armies have made the most significant land assaults and victories against Daesh but the LGMs and training is not enough. The Kurdish armies are British allies and our first line of defence. The Kurds need military grade helmets, night vision and heavy arms to combat the acquired equipment from Daesh. http://justpaste.it/q3i8

The notion that 'Dêrsim' comes from 'Silver Gate' is probably wrong, it's more likely that it received its name from a local tribe named 'Dêsim'.

Desimlu Aşiretinden Dersim Sancaği'na

Don't give up brother.
No one said that the price of Freedome isn't steep.
And as long as we keep fighting, keep multiplying, keep spreading our language and culture, we will only become stronger and stronger.

Hell, Kurds have survived in the most unlikely of places, there are big Kurdish communities in Kazakhstan, Khorasan, USA, etc etc.
We will prevail, keep fighting, keep a loving and king attitude, fight injustice, lies and oppression wherever you see it, and victory will be ours.
If we give up, it will ALL have been in vain.

Better to perish fighting than to live assimilated and defeated.

Some people say SDF is worst than ISIS because they will connect the cantons and pose a long term threat to Turkey, while ISIS doesn't threaten Turkey that much. Apoist in Syria share the same ideology as PKK. There's reports of YPG funerals in Kobani. I'm not so sure how many ore few YPG are taking part in the campaign. Also, the Shabha canton will join the north federal regions or Rojava/North Syria.

http://wikimapia.org/35208044/Shahba-Canton

What do you think about the administration of North Syria/Rojava?

It doesn't make sense to rely only on one reputable periodical. No one source is the best at everything. The best approach is to use multi-source news portals such as http://realclearpolitics.com and http://news.google.com which provide links to articles at many sites.

Very good, reaching the sea is a dream for Kurds.

You can exclude Muqdadiyah, Hawija, wich are massively arabized and anti-Kurdistan and add Jassan south of Badra, wich is still Kurdish.

Also, Kurdistan without Shingal is not Kurdistan. This is the area inhabited by Ezidi Kurds: http://wikimapia.org/#lang=pt&lat=36.330615&lon=41.841431&z=9&m=h&show=/32786020/Ezidixan-Şingal-Sinjar-district

How is Husseiniya in DeirezZor? The location I have for it is just north east of Tel Hamees at 36°46'22"N 41°21'33"E (google maps, wikimapia).

For the Assad regime to be shelling Husseiniya, they would have come from somewhere in Hasakah... either Hasakah city (like the artillery base) or Qamişlo. Looks like a much better road from the regime area of Qamişlo.

> Around 1600 A.D., we encounter the first written expressions of a Kurdish ethnic awareness. The poet Ahmed-i Khani (Ehmedê Xanî) lamented in the prologue to his famous epic Mem û Zîn (1105/1694) the dividedness of the Kurds, which had caused them to be dominated and ruled by Turks and Persians (Ajam, which referred to both Persians proper and to the Safavids, and the speakers of Azeri dialects in general). He contrasted the Kurds with Arabs, Turks and Ajam, apparently using a combination of linguistic and political criteria.

> The ruler of the autonomous Kurdish emirate of Bitlis, Sharaf al-Din Khan, composed a history of the Kurds, Sharafnama (1005/1596), in which he compiled detailed information on Kurdish dynasties of the past and all tribesof his day. He included Sunnis and Yezidis as well as Alevi Kurds, and the speakers of Zazaki as well as of Kurmanji dialects.

[The Ethnic Identity of the Kurds ; Martin van Bruinessen]

Translating Kurdish via Google is impossible :P If you're a Kurd you should try this usually: https://glosbe.com/

But this thread has the same content basically: /r/kurdistan/comments/3fkbji/pkk_we_didnt_know_sabotaged_pipeline_transported/

To add to this: I found another great website that has an app with it. I haven't used the app, but I'm using the website! Memrise.com - Kurdish Courses They have Sorani & Kurmanji (and a Zazaki one?).

According to this article the Pesh ran out of ammo and were overrun by IS.

>ISIS had launched its attack on Sinjar during the night. Peshmerga militiamen were outgunned—their assault rifles against the extremists’ captured fifty-caliber guns, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, anti-aircraft weapons, and armored vehicles. The Kurds began to run out of ammunition, and those who could retreated north toward Kurdistan. By dawn, the extremists were pouring into town. Later, ISIS posted triumphant photos on Twitter: bullet-riddled corpses of peshmerga in the streets and dirt fields; an ISIS fighter aiming his pistol at the heads of five men lying face down on the ground; Arab locals who stayed in Sinjar jubilantly greeting the new occupiers. http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/friend-flees-horror-isis

Link to some NSFL propagande pictures of dead Pesh and IS rolling into Sinjar. http://justpaste.it/ftohat

This is the keyboard I use on my android phone (Advanced Kurdish Keyboard): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boloorian.android.kurdishkeyboard

It isn't that different from the persio-arabic script used in Persian. https://pin.it/LJOBM7B

As you pointed out, we also write the vowels as separate letters like we do in English.

The numbers are all the same but we write the number 2 differently. It looks like < but a bit more stretched out. However you won't find this online as all the keyboards just use the Arabic version.

This course on the app Memrise based on source material from this book helped a lot since it felt less arduous than simply reading a long book. Some things are a bit dated, and I never heard anyone say the word "weneguheyza" for television, but resources are limited for a language that's never been standardized so I guess take what you can get.

Here is the book From the Ashes of Angels on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Ashes-Angels-Forbidden-Legacy-Fallen/dp/187918172X

It's one thing to be able to speak it but I've tried. She knows the odd word but sentence structure and grammar is a struggle.

Also is this the audible book? https://www.amazon.com/learning-Kurdish-Listen-Repeat-Speak/dp/B07KXKH5XD

It says Kurmanji and not Sorani.

Aymen Jawad Tamimi isn't a scholar of Islam.

Shaykh Yaqoubi IS a scholar of Islam, here he has comprehensively refuted Daesh: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Refuting-ISIS-Shaykh-Muhammad-Al-Yaqoubi/dp/1908224193

Daesh ARE the khawarij. Daesh DO assume shia and other Muslims to be kuffar by default.

So stop peddling nonsense and lies. Daesh are a criminal kharijite group, there is Ijma on it.

There is a Kurdish cooking book on Amazon in English:

Title: Traditional Kurdish Food: An insight into Kurdish culinary heritage by Ala Barzinji http://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Kurdish-Food-culinary-heritage-ebook/dp/B00UD9WODE