Narod is an artist of Armenian-Kurdish descent. She is originally from Wan-region and the pictures below are from one of her performances.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Armenians and Kurds: a historic parallel
"I see a very strong correlation not only regarding the solution but also regarding the origins of the Kurdish and Armenian issues," said Taner Akçam in a recent interview with the British blog "Changing Turkey in a Changing World." The interview appeared in the Armenian Weekly for Nov. 29.
Kurdish Armenian conference in Brussel
Information in Kurdish:
Mêjûyê konferansê: Yekşem, 27.12.2009, katjimêr (saet) 16.oo e. Navnîşana buroyê wisa ye: BUROYA KURDÎ, Quai aux Pierres de Taille 11 (Arduinkaai 11), 1000 Bruxelles.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
False statement by Andrey Areshev
Strategic Culture Foundation.
Areshev claim that `anti-Armenian publications in Kurdish media are met more frequently. It's an alarming tendency, Which Should be prevented '.
This is not true, Kurdish media, express themselves very rarely negative about minorities in Kurdistan or Armenia as a neighbor.
There is the current situation is not a single Kurdish media channel that denies the genocide or who tried to disparage the Armenians.
As a Mather of fact it has several Kurdish newspapers an open and formal policy that does not diminish or deny the genocide that took place in 1915 against the Armenians in which Kurdish groups also were involved as perpetrators.
One example is the Kurdish Herald, which has it written into their policies and guidelines that they dont publish materials includin 'denial of the Armenian Genocide, including using attributes that lessen the significance of the event " [SOURCE]
Read more about the Kurdish media here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_recognition_of_the_Armenian_genocide
Areshev's statement is unfortunate and not true, what he is trying to achieve so he should do so by telling the truth.
This is not true, Kurdish media, express themselves very rarely negative about minorities in Kurdistan or Armenia as a neighbor.
There is the current situation is not a single Kurdish media channel that denies the genocide or who tried to disparage the Armenians.
As a Mather of fact it has several Kurdish newspapers an open and formal policy that does not diminish or deny the genocide that took place in 1915 against the Armenians in which Kurdish groups also were involved as perpetrators.
One example is the Kurdish Herald, which has it written into their policies and guidelines that they dont publish materials includin 'denial of the Armenian Genocide, including using attributes that lessen the significance of the event " [SOURCE]
Read more about the Kurdish media here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_recognition_of_the_Armenian_genocide
Areshev's statement is unfortunate and not true, what he is trying to achieve so he should do so by telling the truth.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Armenian And Kurdish Ads On Turkish TV
To increase the income gained from the ads, the Turkish State TV (TRT) undertook new steps. According to the Turkish daily "Sabah", an ad in Kurdish will be broadcast on TRT 6, as "Veritas Medya", managing the ad business in the Turkish TRT, considers it necessary. The ads in different languages and dialects are allowed to be on TRT since 1 January. According to this, Kurdish, Armenian, Arabic and ads in other languages are possible to be broadcast only when a corresponding program in that language is on.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Sîdar Yigit about Tîgran
Aram Tigran, the famous Kurdish singer of Armenian origin, have been rushed to the hospital and there is almost no information on Tigrans condition.
His family were survivors of the Armenian Genocide and he is considered among the best of contemporary Kurdish singers and musicians.
Sîdar Yigit (Netkurd.org) wrote something on Aram Tigran and the Armenian-Kurdish friendship.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Armenians in the new Constitution of Kurdistan
New constitution of Iraqi Kurdistan is a model for the nationality and minority politics of the Near-east
The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) has described the new constitution of the autonomous federal state of Iraqi Kurdistan as a shining model for the nationality politics and the solution of the minority problems in the Near-east. “The rights of all large ethnic groups in Iraqi Kurdistan are expressly anchored, including the right to self-government and freedom of religion”, said the President of the GfbV International, Tilman Zülch, on Tuesday in Göttingen. Smaller communities too have the opportunity to develop. (entfalten”) The regional parliament in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, passed the draft constitution last week. Now it is for the citizens of the federal state to vote for or against the new constitution at the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for 25th July [2009].
The wishes of all nationalities have been respected in the new constitution. Article 15 says: “The people of the federal state of Iraqi Kurdistan is made up of Kurds, Arabs, Turkmens, Chaldaic Aramean Assyrians, Armenians and other citizens of Kurdistan /Iraq.”
The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) has described the new constitution of the autonomous federal state of Iraqi Kurdistan as a shining model for the nationality politics and the solution of the minority problems in the Near-east. “The rights of all large ethnic groups in Iraqi Kurdistan are expressly anchored, including the right to self-government and freedom of religion”, said the President of the GfbV International, Tilman Zülch, on Tuesday in Göttingen. Smaller communities too have the opportunity to develop. (entfalten”) The regional parliament in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, passed the draft constitution last week. Now it is for the citizens of the federal state to vote for or against the new constitution at the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for 25th July [2009].
The wishes of all nationalities have been respected in the new constitution. Article 15 says: “The people of the federal state of Iraqi Kurdistan is made up of Kurds, Arabs, Turkmens, Chaldaic Aramean Assyrians, Armenians and other citizens of Kurdistan /Iraq.”
Article 35 says: “This constitution guarantees the national, cultural and administrative rights of the Turkmens, Arabs, Chaldaic Aramean Assyrians and Armenians including their right to regional autonomy in the regions and communities in which these ethnic groups form a majority.”
Article 36 guarantees complete freedom of religion also for the Christian denominations and the religious community of the Yezidi.
Apart from the Kurdish and Arab languages Turkmen, New Aramaic and Armenian are recognized as languages of the smaller nationalities. In communities or regions where these form the majority local or regional autonomy is granted. The right to native language instruction is guaranteed by the constitution from primary school to university.
An electoral law for Kurdistan also sets down that eleven of the 111 seats in the regional parliament are reserved for non-Kurdish nationalities:
Apart from the Kurdish and Arab languages Turkmen, New Aramaic and Armenian are recognized as languages of the smaller nationalities. In communities or regions where these form the majority local or regional autonomy is granted. The right to native language instruction is guaranteed by the constitution from primary school to university.
An electoral law for Kurdistan also sets down that eleven of the 111 seats in the regional parliament are reserved for non-Kurdish nationalities:
five seats each for Turkmens and Christians and one seat for the small Armenian ethnic group. For the provincial councils also a comprehensive quota system has been introduced. In Sulaimaniya one seat has been reserved for the Chaldaic Aramean Assyrians, In Arbil there are three seats for the Turkmens, two for the Aramaic-speaking Christians and one for the Armenians, while in Dohuk two seats are reserved for the Aramaic-speaking Christians and one for the Armenians. The smaller peoples will be having as a result of their guaranteed seats in all bodies more representatives than corresponds to their percentage in the total population.
In Kurdistan/Iraq there is today a Turkmen and a New Aramaic school system with 58 Aramaic, 16 Turkmen and two Armenian schools. Both nationalities have media (press, radio, TV and culture institutes) in their languages. There is also a private Turkish university and a theological seminar of the Chaldaic Catholic Church for the training of priests, which following the recent mass flight of Christians from Baghdad was transferred to the Kurd capital of Arbil.
Pirtûka HECIYÊ CINDÎ: JIYAN Û KAR Û MALBATA CINDÎ
Goran Candan
Eta (xwunga mazin) me Frîda Hecî Cewarî qîza navîn a kurdê navdar, qîza pêþengek ji civaka kurdên Qefqazê, qîza nivîsevan û zimannasê (fîlolog) naskirî, qîza hêja Heciyê Cindî (1908-1990) ye.
Frîda Cewarî sala 1934'ân Li Rewan'ê (Erîvan) hatiye dunyayê. Frîda Hecî Cewarî li zankoya (unîvêrsîteya) Moskovayê beþê pêdagogîyê û fakûltêta fîzîk-matêmatîkê biriye serî.
Ji hingê ve, li Rewanê ev e 50 sal e ku mamostetiya matêmatîkê ya Kolêca Rewanê dike. Hozanê navdar ê kurdê Qefqazê, Fêrikê Ûsiv (1934- 1997) ku ji vê çend salan berê çû ber dilovaniya Xwedê mêrê Xatûn Frîda Hecî Cewarî bû.
Frîda Cewarî ji bo yadgariya sedsaliya bûyina bavê xwe (2008) Heciyê Cindî, pirtûka bi navê Heciye Cindî - Jiyan û Kar derhaniye. Vê berhemê du caran jî daye weþandinê. Çapa duduyan bi alîkariya Înstîtuya Kurdî ya Parîsê hatiye derxistin.
Jiyana Heciyê Cindî, ji hêla her kurdekî kurdhez û wêjehez ve baþ dihêt naskirinê. Hecî li saxiya xwe ji ser 80 sernav (title) pirtûk derhanî û pirtûkxaneya kurdî pê dewlemendtir kir. Ev berhem xwedî babetên zaniyarî, wêjeyî yên cihêreng bûn. Hem berhemên ji ber pênûsa Hecî û hem jî berhemên wek karê wî yê wergêrvaniyê ên wek gelêrî (folklorî), perwerdeyî (pedagogî) bûn. Li pey koçkirina wî, li gor Eta Frîda, pênc (5) berhemên wî yên destnivîskî yên çapnebûyî jê mane. Bi xebat û lebata xwe ya xwandina zanistiyê, Heciyê Cindî hilkiþiya qada profêsoriyê.
Heciyê Cindî di sala 1908'ê de, li gundê Amançayirê, girêdayê Qersê ji dayîk bûye. Di salên 1918'an de, ji ber komkujî û hêrîþên leþkerên tirkan, ew koçber dibin û derbasî aliyê Sovyetê dibin. Li wir Hecî bê xwedî dimîne, dikeve sêwîxaneyê.
Li sêwîxaneyê bi sedan zarokên bêxwedî re perwerdeyên sereke û yên navînê wergirtiye. Sala 1929'an, derbasî qursa amadekirina mamostayetiyê bûye. Di sala 1930'an de, ketiye Fakulteya Rewanê (Erîvan) a zimannasiyê. Her wisan jî ew dibe xwendevanê kurd yê yekemîn ku li Ermenîstanê di fakultê de xwandin kiriye.
Heciyê Cindî gorbuhuþt, di sala 1932'an de, li nav civaka kurdî ya li Qefqazê, dest bi berhevkirina materyalên zargotina (folklora) Kurdî dike. Her wiha jî ji sala 1930'an de, di rojnameya Riya Teze û di Radoya Kurdî de (ku tenê nûçe diweþandin) dixebite.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Panel Discussion on Turkish-Kurdish-Armenian Relations - Cambridge, MA
From: Hairenik.com
On April 20, a panel discussion entitled “Subjects and Citizens: (Un)Even Relations between Turks, Kurds, Armenians” will be held at Bentley University’s Adamian Academic Center, Wilder Pavilion, on 175 Forest St. in Waltham. The event, organized by Bentley University’s Global Studies Department and the Armenian Review, begins at 7 p.m.
The panel is made up of a group of scholars, including Ugur Umit Ungor (University of Sheffield, UK), Bilgin Ayata (Johns Hopkins), Henry Theriault (Worcester State College), and Dikran Kaligian (Regis College). Asbed Kotchikian (Bentley Unversity) will moderate. Weekly editor Khatchig Mouradian will deliver opening remarks.
The panel aims at looking at the history and examining the power relations between Armenians, Kurds, and Turks after the apparent homogenization of eastern Anatolia as a result of the mass killings and deportations of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire.
The panel will discuss these relations and the prospects of rapprochement among the three groups. Ugur Umit Ungor is a lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He was born in 1980 and studied sociology and history at the Universities of Groningen, Utrecht, Toronto, and Amsterdam. His main area of interest is the historical sociology of mass violence and nationalism in the modern world. He has published on genocide, in general, and on the Rwandan and Armenian Genocides, in particular. He finished his Ph.D., titled “Young Turk Social Engineering: Genocide, Nationalism, and Memory in Eastern Turkey, 1913–1950” at the department of history of the University of Amsterdam. Bilgin Ayata is completing her Ph.D. at the department of political science at John Hopkins University, Baltimore. Her research interests include the politics of displacement, trans-nationalism, social movements, and migration. Her dissertation examines the displacement of Kurds in Turkey and Europe. She currently lives in Berlin. Henry C. Theriault earned his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1999 from the University of Massachusetts, with a specialization in social and political philosophy. He is currently associate professor of philosophy at Worcester State College, where he has taught since 1998. Since 2007, he has served as co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal “Genocide Studies and Prevention” and has been on the Advisory Council of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. His research focuses on philosophical approaches to genocide issues, especially genocide denial, long-term justice, ethical analyses of perpetrator motivations, and the role of violence against women in genocide. Dikran Kaligian is a visiting professor in the history department at Regis College and managing editor of “The Armenian Review.” He received his doctorate from Boston College. He is the author of Armenian Organization and Ideology under Ottoman Rule: 1908-1914 (Transaction Publishers, 2009). Asbed Kotchikian is a lecturer in political science and international relations at Bentley University. His area of research includes the foreign policies of small states, the modern political history of the post-Soviet south Caucasus, and issues of national identity. The event is free and open to the public.
On April 20, a panel discussion entitled “Subjects and Citizens: (Un)Even Relations between Turks, Kurds, Armenians” will be held at Bentley University’s Adamian Academic Center, Wilder Pavilion, on 175 Forest St. in Waltham. The event, organized by Bentley University’s Global Studies Department and the Armenian Review, begins at 7 p.m.
The panel is made up of a group of scholars, including Ugur Umit Ungor (University of Sheffield, UK), Bilgin Ayata (Johns Hopkins), Henry Theriault (Worcester State College), and Dikran Kaligian (Regis College). Asbed Kotchikian (Bentley Unversity) will moderate. Weekly editor Khatchig Mouradian will deliver opening remarks.
The panel aims at looking at the history and examining the power relations between Armenians, Kurds, and Turks after the apparent homogenization of eastern Anatolia as a result of the mass killings and deportations of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire.
The panel will discuss these relations and the prospects of rapprochement among the three groups. Ugur Umit Ungor is a lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He was born in 1980 and studied sociology and history at the Universities of Groningen, Utrecht, Toronto, and Amsterdam. His main area of interest is the historical sociology of mass violence and nationalism in the modern world. He has published on genocide, in general, and on the Rwandan and Armenian Genocides, in particular. He finished his Ph.D., titled “Young Turk Social Engineering: Genocide, Nationalism, and Memory in Eastern Turkey, 1913–1950” at the department of history of the University of Amsterdam. Bilgin Ayata is completing her Ph.D. at the department of political science at John Hopkins University, Baltimore. Her research interests include the politics of displacement, trans-nationalism, social movements, and migration. Her dissertation examines the displacement of Kurds in Turkey and Europe. She currently lives in Berlin. Henry C. Theriault earned his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1999 from the University of Massachusetts, with a specialization in social and political philosophy. He is currently associate professor of philosophy at Worcester State College, where he has taught since 1998. Since 2007, he has served as co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal “Genocide Studies and Prevention” and has been on the Advisory Council of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. His research focuses on philosophical approaches to genocide issues, especially genocide denial, long-term justice, ethical analyses of perpetrator motivations, and the role of violence against women in genocide. Dikran Kaligian is a visiting professor in the history department at Regis College and managing editor of “The Armenian Review.” He received his doctorate from Boston College. He is the author of Armenian Organization and Ideology under Ottoman Rule: 1908-1914 (Transaction Publishers, 2009). Asbed Kotchikian is a lecturer in political science and international relations at Bentley University. His area of research includes the foreign policies of small states, the modern political history of the post-Soviet south Caucasus, and issues of national identity. The event is free and open to the public.
Kurds: ‘We remember, we share your grief’
On April 24 this year, “Gunluk,” the Kurds’ only newspaper in Turkey printed in the Turkish language, featured a big headline above its logo that read: “We remember, we share your grief,” in Armenian with Armenian lettering.
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