Recently I have been travelling through northern Kurdistan, and have met with Kurdish people from all different kinds of backgrounds. They told countless stories of the current systematic oppression and repression they face – especially from the Turkish state –, as well as a
Erbil is the home of any Kurd from Slemani, from Qamishlo, from Mahabad, from Afrin, from Dersim or from Amed. Iraqis are guests and that should not be forgotten. If an Iraqi from Tikrit attacks a Kurd from Mariwan in Erbil, then they’ve attacked someone in their home. Enough!
Belisarius is among the most underrated generals of military history. While the orthodoxy of history tends to place the fall of western Rome at 476 AD, the reality is that emperor Justinian I tasked Belisarius to take it back - and he delivered. Against insurmountable odds.
In 1969 Soviet archeologists found a burial mound of the Saka, an eastern Iranian nomadic people.
Here’s a closer look at the 2400 year old “Golden man” costume they recovered.
From the grave of a young Saka noble.