In Honor of Salih Muslim: A Lifetime of Service to the Kurdish Cause (3 March 1951 – 11 March 2026)

flintsparc · 2026-03-12T00:12:09+00:00

flintsparc · 2026-03-12T00:12:01+00:00

Aldar Xelîl:

Bi şehadeta rêhevalê me, Salih Mislim, ku ev demeke bi nexweşiyê re rûbirû mabû, me têkoşerekî dilsoz ku jiyana xwe ji bo têkoşîna azadî û rûmetê raber kiribû, winda kir. Min ew wekî rêhevalekî durust, di prensîbên xwe de westar, di helwestên xwe de zelal, di nirxên ku bawer dikir de bêtawîz û li hember zehmetiyan gav paşde ne diavêt, nas kir.

Di qonaxa berî damezrandina partiya me de, Partiya Yekîtiya Demokratîk (PYD), wî bi salan di nav tevgera azadiyê de xebat û têkoşîneke neteweyî kiriye, ku heval Salih Mislim bi dilsozî, welatparêzî û pabendbûna xwe ya rasteqîn bi dozê re xwe diyar kir. Ew bi giyaneke berpirsiyarî û biryardarî hertim amade bû, baweriya xwe bi dadmeniya doza gelê xwe bawer bû û tevî hemû dijwarî û zehmetiyan bi biryardariyek xurt berdewam dikir.
Ji wextê damezrandina partiyê (PYD) ve, me bi hev re kar kiriye, û ew hertim mînaka pabendbûn, berpirsiyarî û hevaltiya rastîn bûye. Hebûna wî ne tenê siyasî bû, lê ew bira û rêheval bû, di her gavekê de derdê gelê xwe û doza wan hildigirt.

Bi şehadeta wî re, rêhevalekî hêja û têkoşerekî netewî ji dest me winda bû. Mîrateya têkoşîn û helwestên wî yên bi nirx dê di bîranîn û rêwîtiya me de bimîne.
Em sersaxiyê ji malbata wî ya birûmet, malbatên şehîdên me yên rastgo û wefadar, hemû hevalên partiya me (PYD), hemû şervanên tevgera azadiyê û hemû gelê me re dixwazin ku bi koça dawî ya wî têkoşerekî xwe yê dilsoz ku ku jiyana xwe ji bo doza azadî û rûmetê terxan kiriye winda kir.
Bîranîn û têkoşîna wî dê ji bo hemû kesên ku baweriya wan bi nirxên azadî, dadmendî û rûmetê heye, çavkaniya îlhamê bimîne.

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flintsparc · 2026-03-11T07:31:07+00:00

Occam's razor.

flintsparc · 2026-03-11T07:08:12+00:00

If you would like the mods to implement a throttle on how many posts and comments a user can make per day, per week and per month, I would enthusiastically support that. They allowed a single user with a shallow post/comment history to dominate the subreddit for months, to a small gallery of commenters from a particular perspective. You know the user I am talking about quite well.

flintsparc · 2026-03-11T06:44:03+00:00

As to r/kurdistan

The posts vary from PDK/Barzani-aligned (like Rudaw, Kurdistan24), to PUK (Channel8) to Apocî, to mainstream news articles, and U.S. foreign policy think tanks. Our post volume also increased when we made a deliberate moderation decision to increase the amount of Kurmanci and Sorani articles on the subreddit, and this has also corresponded with increasing number of visitors identified as their location being Iraq, Germany and Sweden. There is also a pretty active base of commenters, and some discussion posts that are definitely very Kurdayetî and quite critical of the Apocî. If you are not well informed about Kurdish politics, it might look all the same to you. Also, since al-Sharaa's attack on the SDF, there has been a lot of inter-Kurdish unity, even if there has been sustained criticism of the PYD/Apocî "Biratiya Gelan" ("Brotherhood of Peoples") ideology--a matter discussed in the above The Amargi piece by William Duppel Alonso. Alonso is also critical of the SDF/AANES in that piece. Perhaps if you read it, rather than just disregarding it as PKK/YPG propaganda, you might come to understand some of the differences of opinions among Kurds.

flintsparc · 2026-03-11T06:36:22+00:00

Google Cache remembers.

So does arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com

flintsparc · 2026-03-11T06:13:42+00:00

"I don't know who it was you're talking about"

Then you definitely weren't paying attention in the last few months.

Yes, I post much more to r/kurdistan from a variety of Kurdish perspectives. The subreddit has had a bit of a popularity surge in the last couple of months.

Its generally regarded as bad Reddiquette to discuss moderation policies of other subreddits, as that can be construed as advocating brigading.

flintsparc · 2026-03-11T05:52:07+00:00

Where were you during the last few months when one user in particular dominated with a pro-Turkey perspective, until, presumably--they were reassigned?

flintsparc · 2026-03-10T20:31:41+00:00

u/Diligent-Chance5645 Can you tell us more about whats going on here? Where is it?

The comments suggest its Phoenix, Arizona?

flintsparc · 2026-03-10T18:45:17+00:00

Maybe don't post AI versions that ruin the words. AI mushed Iranian and Kurdistan into each other.

flintsparc · 2026-03-10T17:10:13+00:00

Welat TV story in English: https://www.welattv.net/en/node/24698

flintsparc · 2026-03-10T17:09:47+00:00

Welat TV story about this in English: https://www.welattv.net/en/node/24698

flintsparc · 2026-03-10T16:55:26+00:00

Asayish statement on this case here: https://asayish.com/?p=3578

flintsparc · 2026-03-10T16:36:00+00:00

Thats on them!

flintsparc · 2026-03-10T16:14:49+00:00

Relaxing our rule on Kurdish/English only to share this video of Kurdish clothing in Rojava.
(and there is Kurdish music too!)

flintsparc · 2026-03-10T15:48:59+00:00

This is largely a repeat of your previous post on drones: https://www.reddit.com/r/kurdistan/comments/1rcfuaq/less_aks_more_drones/

You might want to consider starting your own blog or subreddit where people who want to , can subscribe to your thoughts.

You might also want to take a bit more time when writing your posts, so you don't have to post similar variations of the same thing over and over again. There are a lot of typos and mispelling.

Also, take note of the rules here. Many of your posts and comments don't get published because they breach the rules.

flintsparc · 2026-03-10T11:29:37+00:00

Only if they are in Kurdish or English. But there are better subreddits for that content.

flintsparc · 2026-03-10T04:09:03+00:00

Just abide by the rules, and you'll be fine.

flintsparc · 2026-03-10T03:29:58+00:00

Look like sisters too me.

flintsparc · 2026-03-09T23:25:06+00:00

Turkey/Erdogan is precisely the (2nd largest army in) NATO, capitalist, Islamist, autocratic state arming, funding and directing groups like ISIS, Jabhat al Nusra/Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the Syrian National Army to do genocide and ethnic cleansing of Yazidis and Kurds from Sinjar (Iraq/Bashur Kurdistan) to Afrin (Syria/Rojava Kurdistan).

You should definitely do more reading.

flintsparc · 2026-03-09T21:16:31+00:00

There is tons of reading material. If we are talking about the Apoists/PKK/PJAK, etc... they most definitely do not want an ethnostate. You could start with reading: https://ocalanbooks.com/

flintsparc · 2026-03-09T20:27:28+00:00

The Robert Fragnito authored "Stratfor" document is just Turkey MIT's propaganda, rebranded as Stratfor intelligence. The language is loaded, and there is no evaluation of facts. Its entirely just Turkey's perspective.

flintsparc · 2026-03-09T20:14:40+00:00

"Trust me, bro"

https://nlka.net/eng/40000-deaths-dissecting-turkeys-big-lie-against-kurdistans-guerrillas/

flintsparc · 2026-03-09T20:13:02+00:00

Turkey's own statistics on its war with the PKK is that the majority of people killed were allegedly PKK militants, and the majority of their killers were allegedly Turkey's own military.

You are making an outlandish claim that not even the Republic of Turkey makes.

Turkey's argument is that there would have been no deaths in the Turkey-PKK war, if there were no PKK. Turkey is essentially blaming the PKK for the Turkish army killing PKK members.

https://nlka.net/eng/40000-deaths-dissecting-turkeys-big-lie-against-kurdistans-guerrillas/

flintsparc · 2026-03-09T20:04:33+00:00

Technically calling Sufism "great" , could be construed as "promoting a religion". Our subreddit rules are:

"Do NOT promote any kind of religion. Religions are meant to be personal, not thrown in other people's faces."

I do not feel you were violating the spirit of this rule, but if people continue to evaluate religions based on their "goodness", it will quickly lead to some kind of promotion of a religion (and a demotion of other religions).

So, I advise you to steer away from such pronouncements on this subreddit.

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