Digital Archive of the Middle East

Items

• 11 September, thanks and congratulations.
  Single page press release in Kurmanji Kurdish and Arabic, issued in February 1970 by the Komeley Xwendekarani Kurd li Ewrûpa on the activities of the UK Branch of the the Kurdish Students Society in Europe. Supas ù Pírozbayî Laqî Inglistan lem duwayîyeda be rûdawêkî xoş hate peş, be derçunî govarî 11 Eylûl. Em nawe ke nazdarî dilî hemû Kurdeke... Rojî dagîrsanî şorisî Kurdistanî Xuwarû Be gûman (11 Eylûl) betalîyekî gewre le çarçêwey xebatî komele nebezekeman pirr ekat, her bemeş Komelekeman hengawêki gewrey hawîşt bo pêşewe.
• 14-63 Article from Bamdād on Ezz al-Din Hosseini
  Copy of article from Persian newspaper Bamdād on Ezz al-Din Hosseini
• 1976? “Guzarish-I Sinatur Payk” [includes six loose pieces of paper]
  “Guzarish-I Sinatur Payk” [includes six loose pieces of paper]
• A handwritten article by the Committee for the Defence of the Kurdish People's Movement in Iraq
  The Committee for the Defence of the Kurdish People's Movement penned a four-page handwritten article in 1976. In this article, the authors criticise both the Iraqi and Iranian governments for their efforts to suppress the Kurdish population with the assistance of local Kurdish parties. Committee members include the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Association of Kurdistan Students Abroad (AKSA), and the Confederation of Iranian Students National Union (CIS).
• A letter to Omar Sheikhmous from Latif Rashid on behalf of the Kurdish Students Association in Europe
  A letter to Omar Sheikhmous from Latif Rashid, in Arabic, on behalf of the Kurdish Students Association in Europe (KSSE)
• A Message from Izz al-Din Husayni (Ezaddin Husseini)
  Mamosta Ezaddin Husseini raises three demands: 1- Stop repression in Iran and specifically in Kurdistan 2- Organizing a referendum 3- An international investigation on human rights in Kurdistan
• A new slogan, an old policy
  On April 22, 1985, a number of Komala members and sympathisers in the UK released a two-page printed statement criticising Jalal Talabani's shift in the party's slogan from the call for autonomy to the right to self-determination.
• A news report from Mahabad in Bāmdād newspaper (25/11/1979)
  A report on the protest in Mahabad and a nine-point resolution was published in the Bāmdād newspaper.
• A poster by Komala
  A small poster had issued by Komala Kurdistan's Organization of the Communist Party of Iran, dated 1368 (in the Shamsi calendar, therefore 1989), to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the founding of the communist party of Iran.
• A report on military operations by the Iraqi state in Qala Deza
• A statement from the office of Sheikh Ezaddin Hosseini
  This statement expresses the willingness of political forces in Kurdistan for a political solution to stop the imposed war of state against Kurds and welcome the negotiation board to Kurdistan. However, they still emphasise the autonomy of Kurdistan within a democratic Iran and ask people to be united.
• An announcement signed by the Kurdish People's Representative Board about the draft of rights and obligations of autonomous regions
  Copy of an article from the Persian newspaper 'Kayhān'. In this article, Kurdish representatives raise their objection to the draft of rights and obligations of autonomous regions published by the government's special delegation for Kurdistan.
• An article on the Kurdish National Liberation Movement, based on a book by Aziz Shemzini
  A five-page article on the Kurdish National Liberation Movement, based on Aziz Shemzini’s book 'Jolaneweyi Rizgari Nishtimani Kurdistan' [The Patriotic Freedom Movements from Kurdistan]. Aziz Shemzini was a prominent member of the KDP in the 1940s - the grandson of Abdel Kader Shemzini, he received a doctorate in Leningrad in 1958. His book was published in Kurdish, Arabic and Russian.
• Apartheid in Iran leaflet
  Single sheet leaflet entitled 'Apartheid in Iran', issued in 1989 by an unknown opposition group, that argues that 'by separating men from women as second class citizens', the Islamic Republic has created a form of apartheid comparable to that in South Africa
• Bulletin Of The Kurdish Students Society
• Bulletin of the Solidarity Council of the Peoples of Iran, No. 10 (November 21, 1979)
  Issue no. 10 of the Bulletin of the Solidarity Council of the Peoples of Iran ('Būlitin-i Shūrā-yi Hambastigī-i Khalqʹhā-yi Īrān') with ten pages of news and articles published by the Organisation of Kurdistan Students Abroad (KOMALA) - Swedish section. It includes the terms of the ceasefire and the autonomy plan of the Kurdistan Toilers' Revolutionary Organisation, as well as short pieces of news on different regions of Iran, but specifically Kurdistan, and an article on honouring the memory of the martyrs.
• Copy of Jalal Talabani's handwritten founding declaration of the PUK
  Copy of Jalal Talabani's handwritten founding declaration of the PUK
• Cyclostyled handwritten proclamation to the Kurdish people by the KDP
  Cyclostyled handwritten proclamation to the Kurdish people by the KDP
• Draft of rights and obligations of the autonomous regions (in Persian)
  In this article, Hashem Sabbaghian, a member of the government's special delegation for Kurdistan, shared the draft of rights and obligations of the autonomous regions with Kayhān newspaper and asked people and political parties to share their comments about the draft with the secretariat of the government's special delegation for Kurdistan within a maximum two weeks.
• Draft of rights and obligations of autonomous regions
  The foreign office of Sheikh Ezaddin Hosseini's supporters translated the "draft of rights and obligations of autonomous regions" by the government's special delegation for Kurdistan for Kurds living abroad.
• English text of Fuad Hussein's speech to a Kurdish conference in Amsterdam in October 1983
  English text of a speech by KDP member Fuad Mohammed Hussein - then living in Europe - to a Kurdish congress held in Amsterdam in October 1983 under the sponsorship of the Research Institute of Oppressed People.
• Facsimile letter from the martyr Khalil Saoud to Jalal Talabani, 1978
  Large two-page document issued by the Iraqi Communist Party on the killing of Khalil Saoud, including a facsimile handwritten letter from Saoud to Jalal Talabani
• Handout by Jamʻīyat al-Ṭalabah al-Akrād fī Urubbā, UK Branch, Arabic Roneo
  Roneographed copy of an Arabic handout issued by the UK Branch of Jamʻīyat al-Ṭalabah al-Akrād fī Urubbā, February 1966
• Handout published by the Kurdish Students Society in Europe (KSSE)
  Arabic handout, published in February 1966 by the Kurdish Students Society in Europe (KSSE), reporting on their recent meeting in Czechoslovakia, with statements on the situation in Kurdistan and demands for autonomy.
• Handwritten open letter from the KDP (6 pages)
  Handwritten open letter from the KDP (6 pages)