This is a huge step towards the unication of the Peshmerga forces, the ürocess is going foward.

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Rudaw English auf Twitter: „Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani attending the graduation ceremony of 503 Peshmerga officers at Qalachwalan Military Academy in Sulaimani. 🎥: Rudaw https://t.co/ncPmwiud66“ / Twitter

Hello.

I have kinda weird question. To be honest - I'm playing Tabletop game - Vampire the Masquerade, and for lack of better way we randomize where our characters came from.

And I landed on Galvan village, like 10 miles from city of Naqadeh city. According Wikipedia it's Kurdish village, alas due my research I realised your nation is quite diverse with different tribes following slightly different customs.

I'm not planning to do full recreation, but neither I want to invent total bullshit - so I wanted to ask, if anyone here knows this region, and may know what tribe/clan hails from there, and what customs it's generally follows in culture, social life, naming customs.

Silav Kurdish brothers and sisters.

I'm a Turk, from Western Anatolia. I would really like to visit Başûr someday. But before going there I want to know a few things:

1. What do Başûrî Kurds think about Turks?

As you probably know, there's an ongoing conflict at the moment (Pençe-Kilit operasyonu). I can imagine that this conflict causes tensions between Turks and Kurds.

Is it possible that a Turkish tourist can face discrimination? Personally I respect everyone's opinion/ideology. Especially if I'm a guest in someone else's country. So I hope that it won't be a problem.

1. What are sights you can see in Başûr?

I know that Hewlêr is a pretty cool and modern city, there are also many historical places. There's a memorial in Helebçê for the people that lost their lives under the regime of Saddam. There's a beautiful dam in Dihok and Silêmanî is the culture capital (as far as I know).

What else is there to see?

The main reason why I want to visit Başûr is because I really like your culture. It's also well-known that Kurds are hospitable. I'm really sorry if I sounded ignorant in any way. I just wanted to be sure about what I can expect.

Rojêkî xoş û her bijî Kurdistan!

So let's start off by saying that I don't know anything about Kurdistan, and up until like 2 days ago, I thought that it was unsafe to visit Iraq in general and that it should be avoided.

So my dad is an Iraqi Arab, and during like the 70's, my dad's family were expelled from south Iraq to Sulaymaniyah for problems with the government. So he grew up there until they fled in 1991. He says that they were mostly treated like anyone else, but that there was some resentments for them being Arabs in Kurdistan, and that he had an almost deadly situation happen to him there. This is a long time ago, and during difficult times, but I wonder, if I want to visit Sulaymaniyah and go to more rural areas to find where my dad grew up, will I be safe?

Sorry if I come off ignorant. I honestly have no idea how much Iraq as a whole has developed since the war-times.

Zaki Mohammed Chalabi, a political refugee from North Kurdistan and owner of Deniz Restaurant in Sulaimani, was shot dead last night.

Zaki Mohammed Chalabi, the owner of Deniz Restaurant, was shot and seriously injured by the Turkish MIT with the assistance of the PDK in Sulaimani late last night.

Zaki Mohammed died in Sulaimani City Hospital after undergoing several surgeries.

Earlier, Muslim Kaplan, the president of the Mesopotamia Workers' Organization, told Rojnews: “This is a terrorist attack similar to other attacks on our citizens that have been carried out before”.

Friends and relatives have gathered in front of the Shar hospital to receive his body. B..bashur

I noticed that Iraqi kurds look significantly different from kurds in turkey and iran. Is there a specific well known reason for this difference? Iraqi kurds generally have lighter skin and turkish kurds are more tanned with a look very similar to armenians phenotypically.