Mustafa Barzani was born in Barzan, a village in Iraqi Kurdistan (then the Ottoman Empire) in 1903. Barzani was appointed Minister of Defense for …
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Abdullah Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949 and grew up in a large family in the village of Amara (called Omerli in Turkish) …
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Mam Jalal is the son of Sheik Hisamadeen of Sheik Nuri, the son of Sheik Ghafour. He was born in Kalkan village at the …
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Qazi Muhammad was born in Mahabad, Kurdish region of Iran (then called Persia) in 1893. A well-known and educated leader, Qazi Muhammad led a …
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Iran Members of the Iranian intelligence service known as Ettela’at, arrested several Kurdish activists on a recent raid. The Kurdistan Human Rights Association reported …
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Washington Kurdish Institute July 17, 2018 Part I of a series on Turkey’s future In 2002, the former Mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan …
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Iran On July 7, a Peshmerga group linked to The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDP-I) clashed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) …
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Iran Merchants in the Kurdish provinces and elsewhere in Iran, including Tehran’s grand bazaar, closed their shops in protest Tuesday over the rial’s plummeting …
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Tom Freebairn is a Research Assistant with the Washington Kurdish Institute. He studies International Relations & Modern History at the University of St. Andrews, …
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Kathryn Lynn lived and worked in Iraqi Kurdistan teaching English after completing a BA in Applied Languages from the University of Limerick, Ireland. After …