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Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey

Roj Bash! As finals are fast approaching, today's post is going to be a little shorter than normal, here's the weekly run-down:

Kurdo from Kurdo's World addresses the credibility of some Kurdish news websites [1].

Kardox reports that former Israeli special forces are training Kurds in Iraq. [2]

Reports about unrest in Duhok, [3]Southern Kurdistan/Northern Iraq are discussed on the Kurdistan Bloggers Union.

Bleak Blogorrhea has an interesting post about a public art project called the Children Cheering Carpet [4], which has a Kurdish conponent to it called the Virtual Kurdish Garden. [5] Sometimes things are better explained with pictures so I highly recommend that you check the link out.

Roj Bash has an interesting insight on some of the new postage stamps coming out of Iraqi Kurdistan, [6] including specific information on the types of dress on the stamps and how you can tell what region they come from. There is also a post on a recent conference about the Kurdish Question in Syria, [7] a seldom touched upon topic in reference to the Kurds. And the group celebrates the one year anniversary of their google bomb [8].

Save Roj TV, a fairly new blog has a petition that you can sign in support of the Denmark-based Kurdish television station [9]. It is currently being threatened with closure for its Kurdish content.

A gem out of many illuminating postings from Vladimir at From Holland to Kurdistan is this about Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code [10] which the Republic of Turkey regularly uses to restrict the freedom of speech within its borders.

Last (but never least) is Hiwa from Hiwa Hopes who has been posting a plethora of infomation about the upcoming December 15th elections in Iraq [11]. As the election is next week, I plan on giving you, our dear readers, a more indepth view of the upcoming elections from the Kurdish persceptive. Till then, I remain humbly yours.