Hello everyone! I'm finally back -and married. The winner of the “GV Kurdish Post Title” contest [1] was Metin from Talk Turkey [2], and I particularily enjoy the irony that it was a Turkish gentleman that came up with the neatest name for a Kurdish weekly, it just goes to show the great sense of harmony and openness that I believe Global Voices fosters. Anyway, on to the update of the Kurdish blogosphere for the last two weeks:
Talk about the Passion continues to chronicle his adventures in teaching in Northern Iraq/Southern Kurdistan [3]. Thunder [4] is particularly loud where he is living now and he has rats [5] but he seems to be enjoying his stay and will be celebrating his one year anniversary of teaching in Kurdistan [6].
Save RojTV continues in their effort to stay operating and have been collecting letters and articles of support from the Kurdish and European communities [7], one of the article postings this week is from none other than Vladimir [8] who writes From Holland to Kurdistan (featured weekly here).
East of Kurdistan continues to offer itself as a one stop shop for all of your Eastern Kurdistan news needs [9].
The Is-Ought Problem is back on-line with support for the Danes [10].
Updates on the bird flu in Kurdistan [11] is provided by Pearls of Iraq this week. Also there is a posting of a great article about the cartoon controversy. [12]
Along the same vein Roj Bash! has an excellent posting about Islam, Mohammad and his Critics [13] that looks at the historical implications. Plus there is a wonderful posting of a translation of another Kurdish blogger who writes primarily in Kurdish [14] on the same subject.
Rasti writes about the absurdity of a recent Turkish newspaper editorial calling for a re-evaluation of the Kurdish Question in Turkey [15]. Other items written about include a piece about Kurdish activists such as Kani Xulam [16] from the American Kurdish Information Network [17]. The murder of a different Kani, Kani Yilmaz, [18] is discussed as the event has been a shock to the Kurdish communty.
Hiwa Hopes posted an obituary for Kani Yilmaz [19]as well. He responds to critism that he has received over voting in the Iraqi election [20]. He also posts about the recent success of Darin a Kurdish pop singer in Sweden [21].
We will wrap up with info on From Holland to Kurdistan who has written on a bunch of different subjects including the new anti-American war movie Valley of the Wolves-Iraq [22]. He also writes of Kurdish protests of the Turks [23] and Kurdish protests of the Mohammad cartoons [24]. And in the extremes of happy and sad news, Vladimir has a wonderful article on a topic neglected in Kurdish politics, that of the state of the Kurds in Western Kurdistan, Syria and allegations of the government burying Kurds alive [25] and then on the opposite side of the spectrum a posting about American soldiers befriending the Kurds of Northern Iraq/Southern Kurdistan [26].