Frederick Aprim

There is no such thing as west kurdistan, because there is no kurdistan to start with. Furthermore, the Kurdish presence in northern Syria is only 100 years old. The Kurdish presence as a compact people dates back to the 1925 failed rebellion of Shaikh Said in southeast Turkiye. Shaikh Said was captured (and hanged the next year), but thousands of armed Kurds crossed the southern borders into the French mandated Syria. The French authorities welcomed these Kurds because the French needed those Kurds to fight the Arab revolt in the country. The earlier presence of Kurds dates back to post WWI as many Kurds followed the Assyrian refugees who survived WWI genocide and they (the Assyrians) escaped to Syria from the Assyrian city of Nisibin in Turkiye to across the borders where they built the city of Beth Zalin (Qamishli). Qamishli was built by the Assyrians post WWI which was initially a French military post with a few structures until the Assyrian refugees began to settle there post WWI and build the new city. Then the Kurds arrived, and continued to arrive and just like many other Assyrian towns, the Kurds increased because of their intimidation and persecution.

عصابات العشائر المدعومة من تركيا تهدد بمهاجمة المناطق الكوردية في غرب كوردستان. الميليشات هددت بمهاجمة مدينة الحسكة وريف قامشلو الجنوبي أمتداداً الى ديرك. عصابات العشائر ترفض أتفاق الاندماج بين روجافا والحكومة السورية

hahahahaha ... nice tactic. Every day, more Assyrian lands are seized by the Kurdish tribes as the executive authorities fail to protect the lands of indigenous Assyrians despite court orders that ordered the return of those lands to the Assyrians. Yet, the KRG has failed year after year to execute the court orders, because the Barzanis fears his own tribes and Islamists.

True warriors. Free Kurdistan ❤️☀️💚

Women’s tennis tour introduces mandatory gene testing for eligibility, which will come into effect tomorrow, Tuesday. It is about time. All other sports must follow. yahoo.com/sports/article…

That is pure propaganda. It is very misleading statement. The Kurdish peshmerga caused the last genocide by ISIS when they disarmed both the Yezidis and Assyrians in their respective regions of Sinjar and Nineveh Plain 2 weeks before ISIS attacked, claiming that they (the peshmerga) with protect the people, but then on the night ISIS attacked, the peshmerga quietly withdrew without firing a bullet. It was a planned theme. The Kurdish politicians have been eyeing the two regions of Sinjar and Nineveh Plain that are part of Nineveh Governorate and not part of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. The Kurds since their empowerment in 2003 have created the so-called "disputed territories" term, because they wanted to expand their region considering: a) the presence of gas and oil, b) expand the Kurdish region borders sharing with Syria's Kurds. This term of disputed territories was never heard of before. Also, one wonders, why ISIS never attacked the Kurdish region in northern Iraq considering that ISIS invaded all the governorates that surround the Kurdish region.

@FredAprim @DrKurdan5 And no people in modern times have protected the Yezidi KURDS and the Christian Armenians and Christian Chaldeans/Syriacs/Assyrians more than the brave Kurdish people.

Hiçbir halk Kürdler kadar zulüm görmemiştir. Hiçbir millet Kürd milleti kadar baskıya uğramamıştır. Kürd milletinin bağımsızlığını tanımayan her devlet zalimdir. 2010 - Muaammer Kaddafi

having the Kurdish flag there is like killing the victim and walking in his funeral. The Kurdish tribes have committed more crimes against the Assyrians, Armenians and Yezidis than any other group in the Middle East. They continue to oppress those people "ETHNICALLY" while hiding behind the claim that they are protecting the religious minorities. They keep referring to the ethnic indigenous Assyrians are Christians because the Kurdish leaders need to keep the world looking at the Assyrians as a religious minority "dhimmi" living in the Islamic World. Stop giving Iraqi Kurds a free pass on religious freedom washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/stop-g…

Victims of Jihadism are forming a new coalition. Middle Eastern Christians, Yazidis, Druze, Jews, Iranians, Kurds, Americans, Europeans and other groups from across the world will gather in Washington D.C. on July 23rd for the inaugural conference of the International Freedom Coalition @IFCoalition. The new coalition has been formed by the former advisor to the Trump Campaign, Dr. Walid Phares @WalidPhares and Charles Jacobs. The new IFC coalition has been endorsed by Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan and is being created by victims of Islamist violence to raise awareness of the threat Jihadist extremism poses to the world.

@Kurdistan_AR The city of Erbil in the kurdistan region of Iraq. That is the correct and legal way to phrase it.

⚡️طائرات مسيّرة إيرانية تستهدف مدينة هولير أربيل في كوردستان، مع سماع دوي انفجارات ونشاط للدفاعات الجوية.

Turkiye and Israel are two powerful states in the Middle East, and in the world for that matter. But I was not aware of the followings: 1. In Turkey there is no explicit ban on citizens purchasing genetic kits directly from vendors for personal genealogical test. But, the field is heavily governed by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu or KVKK), under which, genetic data is classified as "special category personal data" or sensitive data. 2. In Israel, a common citizen cannot freely order a commercial ancestry DNA test kit to their home due to strict legal prohibitions established by the state under the Genetic Information Law 5761 of 2000. Under this law, it is illegal to perform a genetic test on an Israeli citizen without a doctor's prescription or a formal court order. Therefore, major direct-to-consumer DNA testing companies do not ship their DNA collection kits to addresses within Israel. Do you think that this is good for the citizens of Turkiye and Israel or not and why?

@RobPutrus @feylinaz I respect your opinion, but there is no consensus among linguist historians of these link hypothesis, which are strictly a possibility, a may be, perhaps, a probably, etc.

@feylinaz @FredAprim I don't know about "you guys", but in my view Kurds directly descend from the ancient Kyrtians, Regarding the Medes it could be possible Kyrtians & Medes mixed, or even that some groups from the Kyrtians directly came from Median tribes, more examinations by scholars is needed.

A charcoal discovery dating to around 2900-2700 BC at the ancient Assur-city site by an international archaeology team in 2024 has proven Walter Andrae's 1922 previous theory correct for the first Assyrian Ishtar H sanctuary dating to at least the Early Dynastic i period.

This is not about what you think or what I think. The link of Kardokhian and people known today as Kurds has been proven linguistically to be none applicable by many historians and linguists. The eminent German Semitist Theodor Nöldeke, alongside fellow scholars Martin Hartmann and Heinrich Hübschmann (aka Wesbackh) decisively demonstrated that Kardukh is not a linguistic form of Kurd.

إن ما طرحته يحتوي على مغالطات تاريخية واضحة ومحاولة لتسويق سردية أحادية تنكر الوجود التاريخي للشعوب الأخرى في المنطقة فمن الناحية الأكاديمية والوثائقية هناك إشارات واضحة وموثقة في المصادر الكلاسيكية القديمة تسبق العصر الساساني بقرون طويلة مثل إشارة المؤرخ اليوناني كزينوفون في كتابه ( أناباسيس) إلى قبائل "الكاردوخ" التي سكنت جبال المنطقة في القرن الرابع قبل الميلاد، فضلاً عن وجود تسميات قريبة في النصوص القديمة التي سكنت جبال زاغروس وتداخلت جغرافياً وتاريخياً مع الآشوريين طوال آلاف السنين وعليه فإن محاولة حصر التاريخ بالجغرافيا الآشورية وحدها ونفي أي اسم أو وجود للشعوب الأخرى بحجة عدم تطابق المصطلحات الحديثة مع القديمة هو تلاعب بالحقائق التاريخية لتهميش الآخرين فالمنطقة شهدت تفاعلاً بشرياً مستمراً ولا يمكن اختزال تاريخها في طرف واحد أو إلغاء تاريخ الجيران بهذه الطريقة

السوباريون وهجرة أقوامٍ سامية الى بلاد السوباريين (سوبارتو Subartu)- د. مهدي كاكه يي نبذة تأريخية عن الكورد والآشوريين والعلاقة بينهم (50) – الآشوريون نظراً لِلعلاقة الوثيقة بين أسلاف الكورد (السوباريين) وبين الآشوريين، ينبغي التعرّف قليلاً على السوباريين كمدخلٍ للحديث عن الآشوريين فيما بعد في حلقات قادمة ضمن هذه السلسلة من الحلقات. لذلك يتم تكريس هذه الحلقة للتكلّم عن السوباريين وبعد ذلك نبدأ في الحلقات القادمة بِالحديث عن العلاقات التي تربط بين هذين الشعبَين وكذلك ستتضمن تلك الحلقات نبذة مختصرة عن المملكة الآشورية ومراحل نشوئها وفترات حكمها.

@ArifZerevan @masrourbarzani @Bafeltalabani You are ready now after you realized that you cannot push others any more. The days of taking power for yourself are over. Now you are forced to recognize other people in the region, including fellow Kurds.

Kürdistan Bölgesi Başbakanı @masrourbarzani yeni hükümeti kurmak için YNK (@Bafeltalabani) ve diğer partilere çağrıda bulundu ..:: 1. Parlamentoyu aktifleştirmek ve yeni hükümeti kurmak için hazırız. ..:: 2. Kürdistan Bölgesi ve Kürt milletinin çıkarlarını önde tutmak isteyen tüm partilerle çalışmaya hazırız.

@RossyPrime Long time ago in the ISIS days.

Have you lost all respect for Obama ?

@Elden_to I am not sure what Yamal is reading, but if it is the original Arabic Koran, then he is reading but not understanding a thing.

The one who scored the goal was Ferran Torres and he's Christian

@_____mjb Stupid!!!!

Did you know that Spain's winning World Cup team has a Kurdish connection? Yes, really. 8 of their players come from FC Barcelona, which supports football programs for children in Iraqi Kurdistan and northeast Syria. fcbarcelona.com/en/news/426795…

@diyako723 Corrupted and fake map.

@feylinaz @RobPutrus Furthermore, medieval Armenian, Persian, and Arabic geographical texts consistently referred to the Christian populations of northern Mesopotamia as Asori or Athoraye (Assyrians).

The narrative that the Assyrians were entirely annihilated or vanished following the fall of Nineveh (612 BC) and Harran (609 BC) has been proven completely wrong. In his comprehensive study The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Near East, historian Igor Diakonoff noted that while the imperial administration and major urban palaces could have been destroyed in 612 BC and 609 BC, the rural agricultural population and provincial towns remained largely intact. We have data from the Seleucid and Parthian periods that provide undeniable evidence of Assyrian cultural survival. In the city of Ashur (Assur), local Aramaic inscriptions reveal that the inhabitants continued to worship the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon, including Ashur, Shamash and Ishtar. One of the strongest arguments for cultural continuity lies in the evolution of language and personal names in the region. The transition from the Akkadian language to Aramaic did not represent a population replacement, like in many other cases, but rather a long-term process of bilingualism in the Assyrian Empire. Also, by the 8th century BC, the Neo-Assyrian state had adopted Aramaic as an official administrative language alongside Akkadian, creating a bilingual empire and that language or its known forms such as Syria, has continued to modern days.

There are no assumptions. List what you consider assumptions that I make for example. The narrative that the Assyrians were entirely annihilated or vanished following the fall of Nineveh (612 BC) and Harran (609 BC) has been proven completely wrong. In his comprehensive study The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Near East, historian Igor Diakonoff noted that while the imperial administration and major urban palaces could have been destroyed in 612 BC and 609 BC, the rural agricultural population and provincial towns remained largely intact. We have data from the Seleucid and Parthian periods that provide undeniable evidence of Assyrian cultural survival. In the city of Ashur (Assur), local Aramaic inscriptions reveal that the inhabitants continued to worship the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon, including Ashur, Shamash and Ishtar. One of the strongest arguments for cultural continuity lies in the evolution of language and personal names in the region. The transition from the Akkadian language to Aramaic did not represent a population replacement, like in many other cases, but rather a long-term process of bilingualism in the Assyrian Empire. Also, by the 8th century BC, the Neo-Assyrian state had adopted Aramaic as an official administrative language alongside Akkadian, creating a bilingual empire and that language or its known forms such as Syria, has continued to modern days. Lastly, but not least, in a genetic study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers analyzed the genomes of various Middle Eastern populations. The data revealed that modern Assyrians form a highly homogenous genetic cluster that is distinct from neighboring Arab, Turkish, Persian and Kurdish populations. Due to their early conversion to Christianity and then the cultural practice of only marrying within the ethnic Assyrian people or other Assyrian Christian denomination since early Christianity practices and specially after the Islamic conquests of the 7th century, Assyrians experienced a high degree of genetic isolation, which prevented significant admixture with the latter arrivals of the Arabs, Persians, Kurds and Turkic people. Finally, there is no Assyrian who makes the wild claims like Kurdish Soran Hamarash and Nehrdad Izady do. These two have gone beyond logic and reason. Explain to us with reason how the Kurds could be Sumerians, Gutians, Hurrians, Mitanni, Kardukhians, Medes, and many others at the same time, considering that most of these people lived in different regions and spoke different languages.

Yes but you guys conveniently assume everything you claim about yourselves is correct and unquestionably true. But even when Kurd make reasonable theoretical claims like kurds likely being descendants of north-west iranian speaking nomads like medians who settled in west-iran and pre-iranic zagros tribes. Assyrians abjectly reject it with absolute hostility.

But that is misleading. In the field of Indo-European and Iranian historical linguistics, "Kurdish" is not classified as a single, monolithic language. Leading Iranologists, such as D. N. MacKenzie and Ludwig Paul, consider Kurdish as several languages. Majority of "kurdish" words are NOT Kurdish per se. The people known as Kurds speak several languages (not dialects) that are influenced by Turkish, Arabic and Persian to name a few; therefore, Kurdish politicians count these words as uniquely Kurdish when they are not really Kurdish. a) Following the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century, Arabic became the language of theology, law, administration, and high literature across the Middle East. Consequently, a massive corpus of Arabic loanwords entered all Kurdish varieties. b) Sorani Kurdish and Persian are both Western Iranian languages, meaning they share a vast core vocabulary of cognates inherited from Proto-Iranian and because of the Persian influence, Kurdish has also borrowed heavily from New Persian. c) Kurmanji Kurdish has been subjected to intense Turkish linguistic influence. Also modern administrative, technological, and daily colloquial Kurdish terms is frequently borrowed directly from Turkish. Historically, Kurdish has been in intense contact with Arabic, Persian, and Turkish due to centuries of cultural and religious coexistence. This contact resulted in a heavy "loan load." In the early 20th century, Arabic and Persian loanwords alone made up almost 50%% of the written Kurdish vocabulary. Interestingly, the Kurdish language does not have an alphabet of its own. Under what standard would anyone even categorize a language among other great languages when that language does not have an alphabet?

Kurdish has over 1 million words. Far more than Persian, Turkish, or Arabic. We have words so beautiful they defy translation. Naz is one. Ranking of Richest Languages 1 English 2 French 3 Malagasy 4 Chinese 5 Thai 6 Greek 7 Russian 8 Kurdish