Captain F. R. Maunsell's map of Kurdistan, which he compiled in 1892 and was published in 1894 by the Royal Geographical Society in The Geographical Journal

https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1328/mode/1up

Kamal Chomani: "I spent ten days in the PKK headquarters and caves before finally reaching Murat Karayılan for this exclusive interview with The Amargi. We begin with the wars reshaping the Middle East and then break down the peace process, in which Mr. Karayılan clearly calls on the Turkish state to end policies of denial and annihilation, and on Kurds to abandon rebellion and work toward establishing a democratic state.

"Mr. Karayılan has not spoken to any external media outlet for the past 12 years. We at The Amargi were lucky to be the first.

"If you are following the Kurdish question, the peace process and Turkish politics, this interview is for you."

I will try to write my reflections on those 10 days after some rest when time allows.

Enjoy the interview for now."

• Hasakah protests for greater Damascus control threaten Syrian integration

Rojava

• Syria’s oil fields change hands, but citizens pay rising costs
• YPJ condemns removal of braid billboard during pro-government protest in Hasaka
• Three Kurdish brothers injured in attack by armed men in Hasaka: Three Kurdish brothers were shot and beaten by armed men while driving home in a car displaying the Kurdistan flag, after Friday's protests in Hasaka.
• Kobani: Displaced Families Living Among Ruins Face Harsh Conditions as Winter Approaches: Families moved out of Kobani's schools for the new term now shelter in damaged buildings in the al-Mat'haf area, with no alternative housing as winter nears.

Başûr

• Iraqi parliament official warns draft budget harms Kurdistan Region: Iraqi parliament second deputy speaker Farhad Atrushi says the proposed federal budget bill threatens regional governance and the Kurdistan Region's financial entitlements.

Bakur

• Oznur Bartinê ji Rûdawê re eşkere kir: Zêdetirî milyonek Kurd hatine koçberkirin: DEM Party MP Öznur Bartin has filed a bill seeking compensation for 1.2 million people displaced from 905 villages and 2,523 hamlets in Bakur since the 1980s.
• بۆچی تورکیا دەترسێت ناوبژیوان لەپڕۆسەی ئاشتیدا بوونی هەبێت؟: An analysis notes that, unlike in 2013, no third party such as Norway, the EU or the UN is mediating Turkey's current peace process.
• Ji bo bîranîna Mehmed Ûzûn pêşengeha 'Dokumantasyonê ya Bîra Ziman' hate vekirin: The Kurdish Writers' Association opened a "Language Memory Documentation" exhibition marking the anniversary of novelist Mehmed Uzun's death in 2007.
• Jinên ji Meletiyê ji rûnê bikarhatî sabûnê, ji fêkiyan sîrkeyê çêdikin: Malatya's municipality turned an old city bus into a mobile workshop where women learn to make soap from used cooking oil and vinegar from fruit.

Europe

• پەرلەمانی ئەورووپا میوانداریی کۆنفرانسی پرسی کورد و داهاتووی پڕۆسەی ئاشتی لە تورکیا دەکات : The 20th Conference on the European Union, Turkey, the Middle East and the Kurds will be held on October 14 and 15, 2026 at the European Parliament in Brussels. The future of the peace process in Turkey, democratic solutions to the Kurdish issue, geopolitical changes in the Middle East and the European Union's policy towards Turkey and the Kurds will be the main topics of the two-day meeting.

it’s a long shot before this works but im in a weird situation where I wanna send money to my friend in Kurdistan but I need someone to do it. I know it doesn’t make sense but if anyone can help please reach out.

Hello well I'm kurdish and i study in an institute and in there I see girls that are attractive with a pretty style and I want to get to know them because I find them cute and I wanted them to like me too but in a romantic way like they also get to know me but I feel that I will disappoint them because of who I really am and how depressed and social anxiety and weak I am, like I see those girls they are attractive and pretty and feminine but they see me as a girl which I mentioned in my other post that I have gender dysphoria which I see myself as a boy, but I get along with it like I can act a little bit feminine but I'm not feminine so in a logic way well as they are seeing me as a girl I look like a soft-masc girl I have a short hair but not that short I have long hair like a mod cut and I do think that I am attractive but the thing is my feelings toward them is that I can't get to know them I can't treat them how they deserve I see that I will disappoint them because I tried many times to get to know to the girls that I like but end up leaving them or them leaving me so it kind of scares me I also see other girls that are masculine that they are obviously WLW but they are not afraid otherwise they do get what they want I don't know how and I have never talked to them about them because in our society it's a shameful thing to be yourself as you know a part of LGBTQ

The thing is I'm afraid and I'm not really mentally well those days I have lately been depressed and overthinking about everything life and the society and how people see me I know this sounds stupid or anything else but it is really hard to deal with it I'm not really good at speaking as well or explaining stuff but I'm trying my best and lately I have broke my relationship friendship with a girl I like because I told her that "I don't see myself important to you as much as you are to me" that was the reason even though she knows about my gender dysphoria and some of my personal stuff she was like real close but she did not give me the attention or the care I need and I don't usually ask for attention because I believe if someone really cares about it they will give you I don't know I might be wrong but I told her it is for the best for both of us

And our institute is like boys and girls are together but not in the same class in class there are different girls classes are up & boys classes are down and I see those vine girls talking about the boys or maybe I see the boys looking at the girls and I see girls looking at boys and how they have boyfriends and girlfriends and I am still there liking girls that I can't have it is really a hard thing to deal with like imagine looking at something you really want to have and you can't

So I'm asking if there's someone like me out there who is from our society and have a familiar feeling towards this post to talk to me about it or help me about it because I'm really tired of liking girls that I can't have a relationship with I'm not saying I want a relationship but I just want to have this romantically thing like I don't wanna name our relationship like I just wanted a special relationship to be there for each other like a platonic relationship

I wrote this post with voice keyboard so if there's a mistake in grammar or anything I apologies and I hope you understand it and you get what I'm saying and thank you for reading

https://x.com/kurdishblogger/status/2108935967088451646

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ئەمڕۆ لەلایەن کەسوکارەکەی بە ئاڵای کوردستانەوە گەڕێندرایەوە گوندی گڕکێ لەکێ لە پارێزگای حەسەکە و بەخاک سپێردرا.

It should be clear by now that Radical arabs are intrnd on driving us out and do to us what they are doing to the druze and Alawites.

There is no point in reasoning with them. It is time we get serious and stop obsessing over socialist utopias.

Time to prepare the Kurdish youth for what is to come and teach them to fight back where it counts, not some beotherhood of peoples nonsense or 4th wave feminism.

No civilisation has ever won or survived like that.

Last night I came across a tweet on X discussing the apparent rise of anti-Kurdish propaganda across Arab countries and the broader Muslim world over the past few years, and honestly, it got me concerned. The way Kurds are increasingly being portrayed in some of these spaces seems to go beyond ordinary political disagreements, with people spreading hateful rhetoric and painting Kurds in an extremely dehumanizing light. I’m genuinely concerned about how widespread this might be, how much influence it’s gaining online, and whether this kind of rhetoric could eventually translate into real-world hostility and violence against our people. Have any of you noticed this trend yourselves? Have you come across examples of this propaganda on social media or elsewhere? I’d genuinely like to hear what others have seen, because I think it’s something we should be paying attention to rather than dismissing it outright.

Also, what’s up with the knife the masked guy is holding? That doesn’t exactly seem peaceful at all.

I’m currently writing an article about why the Kurdish language is so poetic especially in daily speaking.

My main argument is that the oppression of Kurds by the Iranian, Iraqi, Turkish and Syrian government forced Kurdish people to use poetry as a shield against linguistic erasure, weaponising metaphor for political resistance and articulating the trauma of loss and displacement where I will be writing about the halabja massacre, anfal and many more

I just want to ask
Those who grew up around assimilation policies or anywhere where your parents warned you to avoid speaking Kurdish or letting anyone know you’re Kurdish,

1. How did you learn Kurdish as a language?
   
2. What methods? What books?
   
3. Do you agree that Kurdish is poetic because of the years of oppression?
   
4. And lastly, what phrases or/and sayings did you grow up with that really highlights Kurdish poetry in daily speaking

I don’t know if this ever happened to any of you but have you noticed how our culture, especially with the elders and the older generation, are so outdated when it comes to marriage like literally peer pressuring you all the time to marry marry marry the moment you become 20 when you are a man but if you are a woman or a girl and if a girl says that she wants to marry they will scold her and attack her?! The patriarchy is still prevalent in our society and honestly it’s so exhausting and sickening. And the worst thing is they are so close minded they think that the world they grew up in is still the same. They fail to realize and admit that the world has changed and moved forward and each and every generation it changes the world is always changing it never stays the same. But they fail to realize that either out of their arrogance or on purpose or I don’t even know why. I wish we the new generation could put a limit in front of them and not let them say whatever they want.

Video footage and local sources indicated that some of those involved chanted anti-Kurdish slogans, prompting anger among Kurdish residents and triggering protests that further heightened tensions in the city.

https://x.com/sol_0_4/status/2108781565174255727

• Hengaw documents 106 death sentences against January protest detainees in Iran, 35 already executed
  

Rojava

• New convoy to return 400 displaced families to Hasakah countryside: The group will be the fifth convoy of displaced families returning from shelters and camps.
• Syria Rejects Kurdish Language Rights: Kurdish students, teachers, and parents have been protesting on the streets of Rojava in northern Syria for the past month. Their protests are directed at the Ministry of Education’s decision to curtail Kurdish-language education.
• Kurdish Youths Protest in Hasakah After Anti-Kurdish Slogans, Several Injured
• Cenazeyê Hesen Keleş hate dîtin: The body of Kurdish teacher Hesen Keleş, kidnapped in Girkê Legê on 30 September, has been found on a road in the Til Koçer countryside.
• جێگری پارێزگاری رەققە بۆ رووداو: هیچ شوێنێک بۆ جیاکاری نییە: Raqqa's deputy governor says Kurds are genuine, original partners in Syria and that pending cases are being resolved under the law.
• Nabi Huri (Cyrrhus) archaeological site in Syria's Afrin: A photo report from the ancient city of Cyrrhus in the Afrin countryside, one of the region's major archaeological sites.
• Interview with IDP from Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ayn): October 9 marked the anniversary of the beginning of Turkey's 2019 military operation occupying Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ayn) and Tel Abyad (Gire Spi) and the displacement of approx. 200,000. RIC spoke with a displaced woman returning home on Oct. 5.

Başûr

• Iraq’s Kurdistan Region Rattled by Iranian Drones as Militant Dispute Resumes, Wladimir van Wilgenburg: Iran has launched over 1,000 attacks on Kurdistan Region since February 28. Drone attacks will likely persist unless the KRG procures its own air-defense systems or mediates an agreement addressing Iran’s demands.
• ISIS exploits security gaps after coalition withdrawal: Lawmaker: An Iraqi lawmaker says ISIS militants are exploiting gaps between Iraqi army and Peshmerga lines since coalition forces withdrew on 30 September.
• جەلیل کاکەوەیس نووسەر، چیرۆکنووس و وەرگێڕی ناسراوی کورد کۆچی دوایی کرد: Noted Kurdish writer, short-story author and translator Jalil Kakawais has died in Erbil, aged 78. He is to be buried in Kirkuk.
• لە کەلار ناساندن پەرتووکێک سەبارەت بە "کوردستان لە بەڵگەنامەکانی بەریتانیا" کرا: A new book of British government documents on Kurdistan's borders, tribes and Kurds around the First World War was launched in Kalar.

Bakur

• Bahçelî: Koordînatoriya siyasîbûnê mafê kesê li Îmraliyê ye: Bahçelî: Political coordination is the right of the person at Imralı. MHP leader calls for Ocalan to be the "political coordinator" of the peace process.
• Qurbaniyên Komkujiya 10ê Cotmehê li Amedê hatin bibîranîn: On the 11th anniversary of the 2015 Ankara station bombing, which killed 103 peace marchers, groups in Amed visited victims' graves and called for justice.

Rojhelat

• دەستبەسەرکردنی حەوت هاووڵاتیی کورد لە سەقز؛ پێنج کەس هێشتا ئازاد نەکراون: Intelligence agents raided seven Kurdish homes in Saqqez at dawn on Thursday. Five detainees are still held without access to lawyers or family.

Diaspora

• Li Berlînê arşîveke girîng a Kurdî: Rojnameyeke Celadet Bedirxan û helbesteke Goran: A Berlin archive holds rare Kurdish material, including a newspaper by Celadet Bedirxan and a poem by Goran.

Music

• Ez û Gîtara Xwe: Musician Sîmir Rûdan releases new album: Kurdish songwriter Sîmir Rûdan has released his third album, a stripped-back, self-produced voice-and-guitar record about longing, distance and isolation.

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Erbil

Hello, I live in the uk, I’m a teacher. I have a student that can’t speak English, only Kurdish. Been trying to help him.
At the moment we have learning about the English civil war, (I’m a History teacher) I had this work sheet to see if he knows of any of these concepts in his own language, to see if he went to school in Kurdistan. I have tried to translate this on ChatGPT and Google but can’t get a reliable translation. Would anyone be able to translate what me student wrote or even wheather my worksheet made sense?

Would really appreciate it, we don’t have any Kurdish speakers at the school.

I was taught nothing relevant by my Kurdish family growing up as a dispora aside from us just being Kurdish (my dad likes erdogan and saddam so obviously I didn’t learn shit 💀😭) I encounter a lot of misinformation online and like I know it’s wrong but it’s like, ok where would I know it’s wrong considering I’ve not read much yknow?? Like there’s so much to read it’s kinda overwhelming cuz where do I begin bro 🥀🥀🥀thanks !!!!

I'm a kurdish person who has gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder the society might sees me as a tomboy maybe but i see myself as a dude but kinda get lost between what society sees me and what i see myself and that's really been hard on me

And i also have feelings for girls but i don't see that it's a lesbian thing cause i see myself as a guy so it makes me a straight person, Kurdish society doesn't really support LGBTQ or have that knowledge about them but i also don't count myself as a part of LGBTQ community

I just find it really hard to force myself to make me belong to somewhere i don't fit in, i did also mention that i have feelings towards girls which is way harder cause i also distance myself from everyone cause i feel lost i really need help idk what to do anymore with everything

AncestryDNA beinf scared to add Kurdish regions, or to be more specific, naming them Kurdish and making more detailed Kurdish regions instead of mixing everyone up in that region with Turks and whoever.