#iraqi kurds

[greencarnation]

lesser evil for who? because i don't think it's the lesser evil for the gazan children being massacred or for the millions world wide who have been ravaged by us imperialism regardless of who was in the white house. the system is rotten to its core and simply voting blue once every 4 years will never save us

[nesyanast]

Refugee Kurdish Jews in Tehran, Iran 1950

[dougielombax]

Today marks 33 years since the 1991 Iraqi Uprisings where Iraqi Shia Muslims, leftists, Kurds and Assyrians rose up against Saddam Hussein’s authoritarian regime.

They were carried out in response to the Gulf War and the atrocities Saddam oversaw during the Iran-Iraq war (such as the Anfal genocide which I posted about the other week).

The uprising would last for a month during which thousands of Saddam’s cronies would be killed and thousands of civilians opposed to his regime would be brutally murdered.

The Iraqi government responded by cracking down and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. WITH help from the MEK (People’s Mujahedin of Iran, an exiled Iranian opposition group which has since become a reactionary death cult).

In addition, Saddam Hussein’s regime would enact its putrid revenge against the uprising by trying to drain and destroy the Mesopotamian Marshes in an act of despicable ecological destruction.

Mainly to displace the marsh Arabs living there, displacing 200,000 people in the process.

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[eretzyisrael]

Jews of Iraqi descent fight on two fronts

Two Israeli  Jews of Iraqi descent have been hitting the headlines: Idan Amedi, who is of Kurdish origin, made his name in Israel as a singer and actor in the Netflix series ‘Fauda’.  He fought on the front line in Gaza until he was severely injured . Eylon Levy, who was brought up in England by Israeli parents with roots in Iraq, has been an Israel government spokesman fighting a different war on the diplomatic front. He was recently the star speaker at a 25,000-strong rally in Trafalgar Square in London.

CNN reports:

Idan Amedi, 35, is in critical condition in the ICU at Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Center near Tel Aviv, a spokesperson for the hospital said.

However, the star’s father told Israeli website Walla!: “There is no danger to his life.”

Amedi, who is of Kurdish descent, shot to fame in the 2010s as a singer-songwriter before joining the cast of “Fauda” in 2017. He plays a member of an Israeli special forces unit in the series, which follows an Israeli agent who comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian fighter he thought he’d killed, according to the show’s official Netflix page.

Amedi had volunteered to fight for the Israeli military in Gaza following Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel, according to “Fauda” co-creators Lior Raz and Avi Issacharaoff.

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The Jerusalem Post reports:

The star draw was British-Israeli Eylon Levy, the government’s English language spokesman. The 33-year-old former television anchor, who was educated at both Oxford and Cambridge, has become a popular character – and has even attained heart-throb status – for his articulate defense of Israel on television. Even his eyebrows – which appear to take on a life of their own during hostile questioning – have attained cult status and have their own social media accounts. He won a rock star welcome.

“One-hundred days after October 7, one day after another hate parade in London we stand here outnumbered and out-manned yet unafraid and united,” he said. “We are holding our heads up high and are determined to climb out of our darkest hour with our love for each other and Israel.”

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[melikemordemjaponi]

✹Kürt gerillaların hikayesi, Japonya'da bir numaralı manga olarak yayınlanan ve Guinness Rekorlar Kitabı'nda yer alan dünyaca ünlü "Golgo 13" mangasında yer almaktadır.

Eserin adı "Yaşlı Bir Aslan" ve hikaye Kürt gerillaların süper A sınıfı bir keskin nişancı olan Golgo'dan Iraklı bir askeri komutanı vurmasını istemesiyle başlıyor.

Bu manga ilk olarak Mayıs 1996'da yayınlanmıştı, bu nedenle neredeyse 30 yıl önce Kürt gerillalarının manga'da tasvir edilmesi ve diyaloglarda Kürdistan'ın tarihi geçmişinin anlatılması şaşırtıcıdır.

Golgo'dan Iraklı bir komutanı vurmasını isteyen bir Kürt gerilla liderinin Golgo'ya Kürtlerin durumunu ateşli bir tonda anlattığı bir sahne de var.

"...biz, Kürt halkı, her zaman birileri tarafından kullanıldık... ve hepimizi kullandıktan sonra... her şeyimizi elimizden aldılar!"

Başka bir yerde, Baas rejiminin Irak'taki Kürt yerleşimi Halepçe'ye düzenlediği kimyasal silah saldırısı üzerine,

"Binlerce insanımızı zehirli gazla öldürdüler."

Her bir ülkenin o dönemdeki siyasi durumunu araştırıp hikayenizi kurgulama şeklinize hayran kaldım.

Kürdistan'ın doğası ve Kürtlerin yüzleri ve kıyafetleri de ezici bir güçle tasvir ediliyor ve Kürdistan halkının ve Kürtlerin ifadelerini gerçek hayatta gördüğümüz gibi hayata döndürüyor.

Bu manga'yu içeren kitap hala satın alınabilir durumda, bu nedenle ilgilenen herkesin alıp bir göz atması tavsiye edilir.

✹The story of a Kurdish guerrilla appears in the world-famous manga "Golgo 13," which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and is the number one published manga in Japan.

The title of the story is "The Old Lion," and it begins with a Kurdish guerrilla asking Golgo, a grade-A sniper, to shoot an Iraqi military commander.

It is surprising that almost 30 years ago, the Kurdish guerrillas were depicted in the manga and the historical background of Kurdistan was explained in the dialogue.

There is also a scene in which a Kurdish guerrilla leader, who asks Golgo to shoot an Iraqi military commander, explains the situation of the Kurds to Golgo in an impassioned speech.

"...we, the Kurdish people, have always been used by someone...and after they had used us all...they took everything from us!"

Another about the chemical weapons attack by the Ba'ath regime on the Kurdish settlement of Halabja in Iraq,

"They killed thousands of our people with poison gas."

I admire the way you have researched the political situation of each country at that time and built up your story.

The nature of Kurdistan and the faces and clothes of the Kurds are also depicted with overwhelming power, bringing back to life the expressions of the people of Kurdistan and the Kurds as we saw them in real life.

The book containing this work is still available for purchase, so if you are interested, please pick up a copy and take a look.

✹日本での発行巻数第1位であり、ギネスブックにも掲載されている、世界的に有名な漫画"ゴルゴ13"の作品の中にクルド人ゲリラの話が掲載されています。

作品タイトルは"老いた獅子"で、クルド人ゲリラが超A級スナイパーのゴルゴにイラク軍司令官の狙撃を依頼するところからストーリーが始まります。

この作品の初出は1996年5月ということですが、30年近く前に作品の中でクルド人ゲリラを描き、またクルディスタンの歴史的な背景をセリフで説明していたのは驚きです。

またゴルゴにイラク軍司令官の狙撃を依頼するクルド人ゲリラの指導者が、ゴルゴに切々とクルド人の状況を説明する場面があります。

「…我々クルド民族は、いつも誰かに利用されてきた…そして、奴らは利用し尽くした末に…我々からすべてを奪っていった!」

他にもイラクのクルド人居住地ハラブジャへのバアス政権による化学兵器での攻撃についても、

「我が同胞を何千人も毒ガスで抹殺した」

というセリフで説明されていて、その時代の各国の政治状況をよく調べてストーリーを組み立てていらっしゃるなあ、と敬服するばかりです。

またクルディスタンの自然とクルド人の顔や衣服なども圧倒的な画力で精緻に描かれていて、私たちが実際に目にした、クルディスタンとクルドの人々の表情がリアルによみがえります。

この作品を含んだ単行本は現在も購入可能ですので、ご興味を持たれた方はぜひ一度お手に取ってご覧ください。

[leefi]

my grandma: Kurdistan vs Kurdistan…

[lephenixkurde]

Merci à Kurdistan Au féminin pour le relais.

Effectivement, le génocide kurde a frappé au Sud, mais aussi au nord, à l'ouest et à l'est du Kurdistan divisé en en quatre le 24 juillet 1923 par les vainqueurs de la Première Guerre mondiale, lors du Traité de Lausanne.

Impossible pour une personne seule aidée de quelques amis d'enquêter sur un génocide à aussi grande échelle, raison pour laquelle j'ai circonscrit le périmètre de mes investigations à Bashur.

J'ai fait ma part. D'autres travaillent sur d'autres terrains. C'est à nous tous de nous battre collectivement, livres et stylos à la main, pour qu'un jour le monde accepte l'évidence et reconnaisse enfin officiellement le génocide kurde.

Pour cela, il faut lire ce livre et d'autres, il faut partager nos travaux. Et faire connaître le témoignage des victimes qui ont aussi besoin de cette reconnaissance pour se reconstruire et honorer la mémoire des disparus.

Merci pour elles, merci pour eux.

https://kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2023/08/18/un-genocide-oublie-la-voix-brisee-du-peuple-kurde/

[noshnibrahim]

N.I.H

#iraq

[rodeodeparis]

sorry if this isn't that deep but could you clarify what you meant on your last post? i'm just not sure if you're saying these people would've fallen for zionism or if i'm misunderstanding you really badly

that is exactly what i'm saying

[creativitytoexplore]

From protester to fighter: Fleeing Iran's brutal crackdown to take up arms over the border | CNN

From protester to fighter: Fleeing Iran’s brutal crackdown to take up arms over the border | CNN

Iraqi Kurdistan CNN  —  A teenage dissident trailed behind a group of smugglers in the borderlands of western Iran. For three days, Rezan trekked a rocky mountain range and walked through minefields along a winding path forged by seasoned smugglers to circumnavigate the country’s heavily armed Revolutionary Guards. It was a trip too dangerous for respite of much more than a few stolen moments at…

[ed-recoverry]

Shoutout to all Middle Eastern LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Arab LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Egyptian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Iranian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Turk LGBTQ+ folks (if you consider yourself so).

Shoutout to all Persian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Iraqi LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to Kurd LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Assyrian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Maronite LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Yemeni LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Aramean LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Qatari LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Bedouin LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Jordanian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Shabak LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Saudi LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Chaldean LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Kuwaiti LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Palestinian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Bahraini LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Druze LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Cypriot LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Omani LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Lebanese LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Syrian LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Copt LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Emirati LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Turkoman LGBTQ+ folks.

Shoutout to all Pakistani LGBTQ+ folks.

Take pride in it all. Your culture, your identity, it’s all so beautiful. Celebrate where you are from and who you are. It makes you you, and that is something to be proud of.

I’m aware some of those of these ethnicities don’t consider themselves Middle Eastern, so take this with a grain of salt and just an opportunity to celebrate who you are :)

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[dougielombax]

So.

Today marks 36 years since the beginning of the Anfal Genocide in Iraq where Saddam Hussein’s regime slaughtered hundreds and thousands of Kurds, Yazidis, Assyrians, Mandaeans and Shabaks.

Around 100,000 people at the least would be killed.

It would last from February to September of 1988. During the late stages of the Iran-Iraq war.

Largely consisting of mass killings, chemical attacks and forced displacement.

Many in Iraq sadly continue to deny it to this day. Predictably. As do Saddam Hussein’s many idiot apologists on the internet.

I’ll leave some sources from this year and the last few years here for additional information.

Some sources also focus on the Assyrian victims too.

Above: A monument dedicated to the memory of the Assyrian victims of the Anfal genocide in the village of Gonda Kosa.

Just to remind any idiots who think Saddam and his cronies were kind to the Assyrians. They were certainly not!

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Reblog the shit out of this!

[melikemordemjaponi]

✻Amberin Zaman'ın özel haberi: Erbil ile Bağdat arasında gerilim artarken ABD Başkanı’na mektup gönderen Irak Kürdistanı Başbakanı Mesrur Barzani, Washington’u sarsıp harekete geçirmeyi umuyor

Al-Monitor Türkçe aracılığıyla (+foto 2)

https://www.al-monitor.com/tr/originals/2023/09/letter-biden-barzani-warns-iraqi-kurdistans-collapse-urges-mediation

✻Iraq: A leaked letter allegedly sent by Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Masrour Barzani to US President Joe Biden has sent shockwaves through the political landscape of the Kurdistan Region, further escalating tensions with Baghdad.

A leaked letter allegedly sent by Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Masrour Barzani to US President Joe Biden warns of a looming crisis between the KRG and the central government in Baghdad, and expresses grave concerns about the possible collapse of the Kurdistan Region.

The letter, revealed by Al-Monitor’s Amberin Zaman, is dated 3 September and was reportedly delivered to the White House last Sunday.

In his letter to Biden, Barzani stated, “I write to you now at another critical juncture in our history, one that I fear we may have difficulty overcoming. …[W]e are bleeding economically and hemorrhaging politically”. He went on to stress that this situation could lead to the collapse of the federal Iraqi model that the United States has supported since 2003.

via Medya News (photo 1)

https://medyanews.net/leaked-letter-barzani-warns-biden-of-looming-crisis-in-iraqs-kurdistan-region/

✻イラククルディスタン自治区政府のマスルール・バルザニ首相がジョー・バイデン米大統領に送ったとされる書簡が流出し、クルディスタン自治区の政治情勢に衝撃を与え、バグダッドとの緊張をさらにエスカレートさせている。

クルディスタン地域政府(KRG)のマスルール・バルザニ首相がジョー・バイデン米大統領に送ったとされる流出した書簡は、KRGとバグダッドの中央政府との間に迫る危機を警告し、クルディスタン自治区崩壊の可能性について重大な懸念を表明している。

アル･モニター誌のアムベリン･ザマン記者が明らかにした書簡は9月3日付で、先週の日曜日にホワイトハウスに届けられたと伝えられている。

バルザニ氏はバイデン氏への手紙の中で、「我々の歴史の重要な時点、我々が克服することが困難であろうと危惧する岐路にある今、私はあなたに書簡を差し上げております…

我々は経済的にも政治的にも損失が続いております」と述べている。彼はさらに、この状況は2003年以来、米国が支援してきたイラク連邦モデルの崩壊につながりかねないと強調した。

メディアニュースより(画像①とも)+画像②/アル･モニター トルコ語

[yourdailyqueer]

Zhiar Ali

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 2 September 1999

Ethnicity: Iraqi - Kurdish

Occupation: Activist, singer, songwriter, journalist

Note: On 16 June 2023, Ali published a redesign of the Kurdistan Pride Flag on Twitter. The design combined elements of the Kurdish flag with the LGBT flag, aiming to celebrate the intersectionality of identities and provide visibility to LGBTQ+ Kurds.