r/kurdistan

I (23F) moved to suli a few months ago from hawler and i still have no friends here

It’s just so hard to find progressive likeminded people esp bcz i don’t know anyone here

Where do the “cool kids” nowadays aggregate anyways lol

I would love any tips on how to get to know people here

Hi everyone! I’m visiting Kurdistan in about a week. I am a US citizen. I have done some quite extensive research regarding the visas, and have come to learn that US citizens are eligible for a visa upon arrival. I just wanted to ask if anyone has done that before, or known someone to do it? I’m just a little worried about this. I even emailed the consulate in Erbil, and they confirmed that as a US citizen I am able to get a 30-day visa upon arrival. Simply I’m curious if anyone has any knowledge on that? And what about the e-visa? I didn’t really want to do that option because it seems like such a hassle with all the requirements for that. Visa upon arrival seems so much more peaceful. Thanks everyone for your time!

Hello everyone how's life? I wanted to ask something, why is there this weird link between the Baluch and kurds but they live a whole plate apart, is it exaggerated or there is some ancient link between the two groups.

The prophet says: no one truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself

This exact saying appears in multiple primary collections with slight variations in wording, all carrying the same meaning

Sahih al-Bukhari: Hadith 13 (Volume 1, Book 2, Hadith 6)

Sahih Muslim: Hadith 45 (Book 1, Hadith 72)

An-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths: Hadith 13

And according to him the ummah is an Islamic brotherhood and he also says this: "A Muslim is a brother of another Muslim, so he should not oppress him, nor should he hand him over to an oppressor. Whoever fulfilled the needs of his brother, Allah will fulfill his needs..." Sahih al-Bukhari 2442 | Sahih Muslim 2580

The Narrator: Abdullah ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). \[1, 2, 3\]

So if we're all brothers and our faith is not complete until we love for our Muslim brothers what we love for ourselves, why are so many Muslims against the existence of a free kurdistan? On their own land, under the sharia law and an Islamic country. And this goes specially for the political leaders that oppose the existence of a kurdistan, you could argue that those in power are greedy and not justiful towards everyone but what about your normal muslim,why does he oppose an Islamic country called kurdistan even though if he doesn't support he's not full of faith

So with KRG importing hundreds of thousands of Arabs for their luxury cities and mega projects, how much of KRG is now Arab?

4 years ago I barely saw any Arabs, but today it seems like wherever I go I hear people speak Arabic…

I’m not racist but it is concerning since all Arabs will always side with Baghdad over KRG and us Kurds!

But what do our demographics look like now?

From a completely unbiased and realistic perspective what do you think our demographics are?

Eastern Kurdish (Hawrami) and Western Kurdish (Kirdki) are so incredibly archaic among New Western Iranic languages that they actually are more archaic than Middle Persian and Parthian WHEN it comes to the grammatical cases, genders and numbers.

Of course as languages of the Middle Iranic stage, both, MP and Parthian had so many lexemes, sound structures and grammatical features that are generally lost in New Iranic. Including EK and WK.

But the archaic subdialects of EK and WK have even to this day these certain features that MP and Parthian didn't have from the earliest time of their attestation on from a point after 2'000 years ago.

Since I am more familiar with EK than with WK I will focus on EK.

EK has three cases (subject, object, vocative), two numbers (singular, plural) and two genders (masculine, feminine). MP and Parthian had two cases, which only showed in a limited way, and no grammatical gender. For example, NK also has two genders and three cases but it does not mark the gender or number of the subject case while EWK does and NK's masculine vocative marker (-o) is an innovation. In EK everything is marked even the adjectives!!! Which is an O.G. Indo-European feature that still existed in Old Iranic (Awistan and Old Persian with seven cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, locative, ablative/instrumental, vocative), three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and three numbers (singular, dual, plural)). Latin e.g. worked like that too and Russian e.g. still does. SCNK like New Persian does not do any of this.

English

EK

SK

CK

NK

MP

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(A) girl sees (a) boy

(A) boy sees (a) girl

Girls see boys

Boys see girls

.

Kināca kurrī wīno

Kurr kināce wīno

Kināce kurrān wīnān

Kurre kinācān wīnān

.

Düat kurr(a) dünet

Kurr düat(a) dünet

Düat kurr dünin

Kurr düat dünin

.

Kanīshk kurr dabīnet

Kurr kanīshk dabīnet

Kanīshkān kurrān dabīnin

Kurrān kanīshkān dabīnin

.

Kac kurī dibīna

Kur kace dibīna

Kac kurān dibīnin

Kur kacān dibīnin

.

Kanīzag pisar wīnad

Pis kanīzag wīnad

Kanīzag pisarān wīnand

Pisar kanīzagān wīnand

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She is healthy

He is healthy

They (only female) are healthy

They (only male) are healthy

.

Āda washa (a)na

Ād wash an

Āde washe (a)ne

Āde washe (a)ne

.

Aw xwash a

Aw xwash a

Awān xwash in

Awān xwash in

.

Aw xosh a

Aw xosh a

Awān xosh in

Awān xosh in

.

Aw xwash a

Aw xwash a

Aw xwash in

Aw xwash in

.

Oy xwash ast

Oy xwash ast

Oy xwash and

Oy xwash and

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He sees her

She sees him

They see them

They see her

.

Ād āde wīno

Āda ādī wīno

Āda ādīshān wīno

Āde āde wīnān

.

Aw aw dünet

Aw aw dünet

Aw awān dünet

Awān aw dünin

.

Aw aw(ī) dabīnet

Aw aw(e) dabīnet

Aw awān dabīnet

Awān aw(e) dabīnin

.

Aw we dibīna

Aw wī dibīna

Aw wān dibīna

Aw wān dibīnin

.

Oy oy wīnad

Oy oy wīnad

Oy aweshān wīnand

Oy oy wīnand

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Note: <oy> in Middle Persian is transcribed as such but might as well be <awe>

Hey guys I have been diagnosed with adhd but wher can seek professional help and medicine in Hawler(Erbil)

It seems like lately pkk and apo gets to much hate recently, All those hate is backed off by propaganda,ignorance and lack of knowledge.

like the most stupid argument ive heard is "apo doesnt want kurdistan"
so stupid argument, Apo have sat in jail for 27 years because of kurdish cause and STILL people say he doesnt want kurdistan.

Also notice how 99% of any protest for kurds the pkk flags raised, ITS APOCIS THAT ACTUALLY DOES THE ACTION. Like i swear so many kurds larp online saying apocis are braindead, WHEN ITS ACTUALLY APOCIS THAT GO OUTSIDE PROTEST or do anything.

out of all the protest ive seen outside and been in IVE NEVER ONCE seen barzani or puk flag. ONLY THE KURDISH,ROJAVA and PKK flag.

They are doing all these housing projects for the arabs but as their percentage will increase they will just takeover and destroy the kurdistan region

Why are they doing this anyway is it just to make easy money

I dont really know how this reddit thing works tbh im not gonna write a whole paragraph but my point is that if the pdk and puk dont unite the regions gonna collapse and it already is by so many arabs coming here i am zakhoyi and live in zakho and with zakho being a small city the number of arabs here is concerning im afraid that its gonna collapse if they dont put a stop to this, thoughts?
Edit: after reading the comments turns out i was correct i give the kurdistan region 3-4 years max until kurds are the minority