December 24, 2015 A Pakistani journalist’s notes from Cizre in Turkey, where the Kurdish struggle for dignity is getting bloodier everyday By Kiran Nazish In October this year, I spent some time in the Kurdish city of Cizre in southern Turkey with…
“The fact is all these refugees fleeing war zones in the Arab World could very easily be accommodated in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Instead, while Turkey wants to dump them in the sea and hope bleeding-heart, guilt-ridden liberal Europeans embrace…
“The pope could have been firmer. He should have raised the issue of Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, which for almost 1,000 years was Orthodox Christianity’s Kaaba so to speak, but which was forcibly converted into a mosque by Muslim invaders…
“Today, 40 million Kurds are the world’s largest ethnic group without a country of their own. They also stand out as a Muslim community that has a culture of gender equality. Female fighters go into battle shoulder-to-shoulder with their male counterparts. After…