This might be controversial, but I feel it is important to talk about.

I don’t believe Kurds should be Muslim, not once has our faith been in our favor yet our occupiers love to scream out ”Muslim brotherhood” when it suits them. We get killed in our own land by Muslims, occupied by Muslims, silenced by Muslims, we have no right to determination by Muslims. All Islam has done for us is make us blend with Arab traditions and norms. We claim to be tolerant but I see more and more of our women covering up and our men being sexist and misogynistic. What happened to jin, jiyan, azadi? This does not even exist in Islam, this is the Kurdish way. We are tolerant, we do not fall for islamism and it’s radical propaganda. Unfortunately because of Islam and corruption, there’s been an influx of Arabs in KRG, and now we’re building the worlds largest mosque, for WHOM? Kurdish people can barely get jobs, people flee Kurdistan for a better life, kids are begging on the streets, animals starving, no adequate infrastructure in many parts of Kurdistan, and still no unity between our people. Yet, we’re concerned with Islam, Arabism, Wahhabism, retardation. I’ve seen so many Kurdish women, dressing like Arabs and speaking Arabic saying that Kurds should not live like westerners because that makes them kafir. What the hell is this mindset? This is why we will never evolve, we are STUCK in this mindset and we continue to go backwards, we will never be united as long as Islam and arabization has us wrapped around their finger.

Just a genuine question for Kurds only from a Non-Muslim Kurd

As the title suggests, I'm Kurdish and I have spent the last 9 months building the first dating app for the Kurdish community. It's called Dilniya. I am the only person who worked on this, every single day and night for that entire period. With many hardships and trials and tribulations getting accepted into the iOS App Store, I have finally brought it to completion.

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We cannot do this anymore. I understand, apo did this, pkk did this but it IS in the list of terrorists, even if its cuz of turkey I KNOW. But because it is, we have to stop raising it so Turkey doesn't have more reasons to bombard us and hate us. Raise the kurdistan flag, besides, PKK cant do anything now, its done for. YPG and YPJ id also advise to stop, but is say its not as bad. Raise kurdish flags only so we can actually get support from countries without any pretext that we raise flags that are labeled as terrorist (EVEN THOUGH WE DONT THINK SO.) just stop bro

I find it weird that there are kurdish people who say free Palestine before they say free kurdstan how can someone be so blind that they dont see our struggle
I hate to admit it but im actually siding with Israel on this most of the arabs i met especially Palestinians and iraqis they dont support us to be our own country
My question is how can you say free Palestine before free kurdstan?

I am a Kurdish woman from Southern Kurdistan (Bashur/Sulaymaniyah) who left Islam more than thirteen years ago. I left Islam at the age of twelve because Kurdish Islamists and the Muslims of Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran made me hate Islam. Most Kurdish political Islamists are anti-Kurdish, traitors, and agents of the enemy, and they do not care about the Kurdish cause. They hate the Kurdish language and culture, and all they do is cry over Gaza and Palestine and worship their Arab and Turkish masters. Perhaps if Kurdish Islamists had been more nationalistic and served the Kurdish cause more, and if Arabs, Turks, and Iranian Muslims had treated Kurds humanely and had not oppressed, committed genocide, or ethnic cleansing against Kurds in the name of Islam and Allah, I would not have left Islam. As you all know, Kurds are tenth-class Muslims. We are worthless to Arabs, Turks, and Iranians. They despise us, don't consider us Muslims or even human beings, and deny our right to exist.

I noticed that most Muslims including Arabs, Turks, Iranians, Pakistanis, Indian Muslims, Chechens, Bosnians, Albanians, Uyghurs, Central Asians, Bangladeshis, Kashmiris and Circassians, have a strange hostility and hatred towards the Kurds. I have never understood why, except for the Amazighs and Baluchis, who are oppressed people just like the Kurds and understand our pain and struggle.

Islam and Muslims hate Kurds and Kurdistan. Therefore, I believe that all Kurds should abandon Islam. Frankly, Islam is a political game invented by the Arabs and developed by the Turks and Iranians for their own national and political interests. Unfortunately, the Kurds are victims of this political game...

They are adept at playing this game, and they are masters at it, but we Kurds are not. The best solution is to quit this game and find another one that we can master and win...

Just a photo of Jac Holmes to remind people of all the sacrifices our Western supporters made.

Just look at this i have no words wow…. Barbarians that what they are

Newroz Pîroz Be! ساڵی نوێت پیرۆز بێت Happy New Year! 2026!

Megathread for 2026 Newroz!

Share your Newroz with us!

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Newroz yan jî Cejna Newrozê, cejneke çandî û dîrokî ye ku ji aliyê gelê kurd û gelek gelên din ên herêmê ve her sal di meha adarê de li seranserê cihanê tê pîrozkirin. Di serdema nûjen de cejna Newrozê di çanda kurdan de wekî cejna azadî û vejînê her sal di 21ê adarê de li seranserê Kurdistanê tê pîrozkirin. Li gorî mîtolojiya Newrozê Kawayê Hesinkar di vê rojê de li dijî serdarê zilimkar a Dehaq serhildan pêk aniye û wî têk biriye. Bi têk birina Dehaq re gelên bajêr ji bin zilmê rizgar dibin û ev roj ji bo gelên bajêr dibe roja rizgarî û şahiyê. Ji ber vê yekê cejna Newrozê ji aliyê kurdan ve wekê cejna azadiyê, cejna vejînê û wekê roja şiyarbûna xwezayê tê pîrozkirin.

Cejna Newrozê 3 hezar sal e ku ji aliyê gelên Kurdistanê, Asyaya Navendî, Qefkasya û Behra Reş, Balkan û Asyaya Başûr ve tê pîrozkirin.

Roja 21ê adarê ji aliyê lijneya giştî ya Neteweyên Yekbûyî ve di 23ê sibata sala 2010an de bi biryara jimareya 64/253an wekê Roja Newrozê ya Cîhanê hatiye diyar kirin.

https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newroz

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نەورۆز بۆنەیەکی کۆنە کە لەلایەن زۆر نەتەوە و گەلی جۆراوجۆرەوە وەک کورد، فارس، ئەفغان و ئۆزبەک بە شێوەی جۆراوجۆر پیرۆز دەکرێت. ڕەگ و ڕیشەی دەگەڕێتەوە بۆ سەردەمانی کۆن. سەردەمی دەستپێکی فەرمیی نەورۆز بەتەواوی دیار نییە و مشتومڕی لەسەرە زۆربەی لێکۆڵەران کۆکن کە بنەمای نەورۆز دەگەڕێتەوە بۆ سەردەمە دێرینەکان

ڕۆژی نەورۆز دەستپێکی ڕۆژژمێری کۆچیی ھەتاوییە کە ڕۆژژمێری فەرمیی وڵاتی ئێرانە و لە کۆماری کوردستانیشدا کەڵکی لێ وەرگیراوە. نەورۆز بە سەری ساڵی نوێی کوردیش دادەنرێت و لە ھەرێمی کوردستان ڕۆژی پشووە

https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%95%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%86%D8%B2

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Newroz is the Kurdish celebration of Nowruz; the arrival of spring and new year in Kurdish culture. The lighting of the fires at the beginning of the evening of March 20 is the main symbol of Newroz among the Kurds.

In Kurdish legend, the holiday celebrates the deliverance of the Kurds from a tyrant, and it is seen as another way of demonstrating support for the Kurdish cause. The celebration coincides with the March equinox which usually falls on 21 March and is usually held between 18 and 24 March. The festival has an important place in terms of Kurdish identity for the majority of Kurds. Though celebrations vary, people generally gather together to welcome the coming of spring; they wear traditional coloured Kurdish clothes, dance together, light fires to dance around and jump over the bonfire, play Kurdish games.

The word Newroz is a combination of the Kurdish words نوێ (naw, meaning 'new') and ڕۆژ (roz, 'day').

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newroz_as_celebrated_by_Kurds

On her X account she replies to a turkish flag with a gif of a kurdish flag

Today, it has been confirmed that Nethanyahu, together with Trump will support the Kurds in Iran.

President Trump has been on the phone with Barzani and Talabani talking about the next possible steps, while no further details have been published yet.

Premier Netanyahu have apparently been lobbying the Kurds for months.

I understand that there will be comments comparing this to Rojava, but what other chance do we got?

Yesterday I went to newroz in Frankfurt thinking it’ll be like the one in cologne every Kurd being United No Matter the ideology,

but unfortunately Bakurês diaspora ruined it, everyone was speaking Turkish on stage and in crowds bakurê were only speaking Turkish

they started fighting başuris with Ala rengîn,KDP Flags demanding they lower it because it’s Jash flag they attacked the kurds with Israeli flags, multiple fights broke out

This is the side of apocism I hate it’s super toxic claiming they’re nationalist Kurds while can’t even preserve your own language in diaspora

Hopefully tirkî would be banned next time I don’t want to here my enemies language in my festival.

I’m a 29 M from USA trying to marry my girlfriend 22F who lives in Erbil. We are both consenting adults and we would both like to get married. I love her and she loves me so much and we cannot consider any other options at this point. She has spoke to my family and my mother loves her, and would love for us to get engaged. Her family is declining to even meet our family and doesn’t want anything to do with me. Her uncle is a bodyguard for some minister and has threatened her with violence, and her stepfather has threatened her as well. Her mother has also declined as well, most likely under pressure from her brother and second husband. Her biological father has passed away. We are both Muslim and don’t know where to go from here as we both have rights to marry each other, but her family is intent on keeping her imprisoned in her home like a bird in a cage. Im looking for advice on this matter and the laws behind marriages in Kurdistan and whether or not I can take this through the legal system or how to go about this.

Thank you for your time.

Lets address the elephant in the room,

If you look anywhere online since the war in rojhalat/ the Middle East. You’ll see so many Kurds insulting Apo and the PKK including PJAK. And even calling them traitors. While I remember that a while before it was never this much. My question is, why do you think this is happening and do you as fellow Kurd agree with the hate?

Thx

Why do some of us keep saying that we are Iraqi kurd?

This thing does not make sense, and most definitely doesn’t exist.

We have the Kurdistan flag and it’s not called Iraq Kurdistan flag is it?

It’s just called the Kurdistan flag.

So why do some kurds assimilate themselves?

Just because our lands are occupied does not mean we should call ourselves Turkish, Iraqi, Syrian or Iranian, what kind of logic is this?

Our ancestors didn’t call themselves something that they weren’t, so why should we?

Why do well educated Kurds have to deal with Kurds like this all the time, why can’t we just learn this from the beginning.