Items - Digital Archive of the Middle East

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.

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 photo of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou in Mahabad

KDPI leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou delivering a speech in Mahabad, 20 November 1979

A photograph with annotation: "the morning in Dogubayazit, Turkey, 1997".

Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the morning in Dogubayazit, Turkey, 1997". Three men sitting at a table with two others standing behind. All looking into camera.

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.

Annual Journal of the Kurdish Students Society in Europe, No. 13, 1969.

46-page issue of the Annual Journal of the Kurdish Students Society in Europe, No. 13, (1969) edited by Dara Attar and containing articles by Lord Kilbracken, Taufiq Wahby and C.J. Edmonds.

British documents on Mustafa Barzani (1903-79)

Selection of documents on Mustafa Barzani, including three pages of handwritten biographical notes on diplomatic notepaper and a typed transcript of an interview with Barzani by Richard Beeston (1926-2015)

Documents of Indictment (1994): A collection of documents condemning the mercenary and terrorist wing of the Kurdistan Islamic Movement and ordering it to attack the federal government in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

A compilation of documents published by the PUK to highlight terrorist activities undertaken by the Kurdistan Islamic Movement in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

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.

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.

Iraqi Kurdistan Front - The Front's Charter and Internal Regulations

Journal of Komala No. 9

Special issue by Komala of the Toilers of Iraq, addressing theoretical aspects of party which is based on Marxism–Leninism framework.

Kurdish Politics in Kurdistan

Document comments on the politics of Kurdistan.

Kurdistan 1945, No. 115 (7 June 1985)

Number 115 of Kurdistan 1945, organ of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, for 7 June 1985.

Kurdistan 1945, No. 116 (14 June 1985)

Number 116 of Kurdistan 1945, organ of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, for 14 June 1985.

Kurdistan 1945, No. 118 (28 June 1985)

Number 118 of Kurdistan 1945, organ of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, for 28 June 1985.

Kurdistan 1945, No. 197 (19 February 1988)

Number 197 of Kurdistan 1945, organ of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, for 19 February 1988.

Kurdistan 1945, No. 198 (10 March 1988)

Number 198 of Kurdistan 1945, organ of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, for 10 March 1988.

Kurdistan 1945, No. 95 (May 1984)

Number 95 of Kurdistan 1945, organ of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, for May 1984.

Kurdistan 1945, No. 96 (June 1984)

Number 96 of Kurdistan 1945, organ of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, for June 1984.

Kurdistan Bulletin No. 1 (November 1984)

Issue No. 1 of 'Kurdistan Bulletin' (November 1984), published by the Iranian Kurdistan Committee, along with a letter to Omar Sheikhmous requesting support for their work. The bulletin includes the "Declaration of the Formation of the Iranian Kurdistan Committee", an article by the "Kurdistan Institute of Paris" on the history of Kurds, a section devoted to news, two letters from KOMALA (Kurdistan Organisation of the Communist Party of Iran) and KDPI (Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran), and a report on a demonstration on October 27th, 1984, in London against the forceful mass deportation of Kurds by the Islamic Republic regime of Iran.

Kurdistan News and Comment, Issue No.9 (August 1983)

Kurdistan News and Comment Issue No.9 (August 1983) published by the Kurdistan Solidarity Committee (UK), containing sixteen pages of news and features, including interviews with M.E. Borzalan (on Kurdish culture and alphabet) and Omar Sheikhmous

Kurdistan of Iran News Bulletin, No. 47 (26 November 1983)

Number 47 of the Kurdistan of Iran News Bulletin, issued by the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, for November 26, 1983.

Kurdistan, Annual Journal of KSSE, Vol. XIII (1969)

Letter by the PUK to the international conference against racism and racial discrimination, 1978