Kurd (n.) A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. Kurdish (a.) Of or pertaining to the Kurds. Kurilian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Kurile Islands, a chain of islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southe...
Then the guy who looked like Christian Bale told me "Kurdish, Turkish, not important. What important if you have money. The problem Capitalism. A poor Kurd and poor Turk have many the same." I remembered the man in the Mercedes. It's the same everywhere I thought. Kurdistan was ...
But the Kurdish prime minister is not likely to push for complete independence. Not tomorrow. Not next year. "Every Kurd we've spoken to since we've been here says, 'We're a separate country. We're Kurds. We don't want to be with Iraq,'" Simon remarks. "You're prime minister of...
It is the newest oldest church in New York.New with a bright new pastor, zealous for the work of God to go forth, not just for Armenians but for ‘whosoever’ the Lord will gather. New with folks the Lord called in, Bob and I (a Puerto Rican and Armenian), a Turkish Kurd, a ...
Fear of such problems was the reason Erdogan brought the election forward by more than a year, according to Sönmez and most other commentators, but the political manoeuvre may not spare him social unrest. The uses of nationalism Young men at the pro-Erdogan rally in Istanbul Photo; Tony Cr...
This form of secularism has become an assertion of the superiority of the Occident over the world it once colonised, tinged with class hatred, given that many of its exponents will happily mix with well-off, “integrated” persons of foreign origin, but like to whip up fear of a lawless ...
you can never be free of the fear that you are being dreamed. Dreamed or written: the freedom and power of dreaming, asDreamtigersimplies, is the freedom and power of art; and so with the limitations. We can find precursors of this conception in Berkeley, whose universe is being dreamed...
Kurd Gossemer said: Another great chapter as always, hopefully the Mongols can crush the Shogunate soon and depose the incompetent Houjou, looking forward to them finally conquering the whole of Japan. The result is still quite up in the air, but next 3-4 chapters should ...
After a month, they left for Irbid, a nearby city in northwest Jordan, and though she had six strong sons, they could not work for fear of being arrested or sent back to Syria. The education of her three youngest boys had been interrupted by the fighting—Abdul Malak had been a year ...
The divine smith Kurdalägon dropped him into a trough containing one hundred goatskins of milk, but since the trough was too short, Soslan had to bend his knees, which consequently were not tempered and thus remained vulnerable. After a long existence devoted to war exploits, mostly ...