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Over 22 million Kurds in Turkey, new statistic shows
21/09/2012 04:31ERBIL, Sep. 20 (AKnews) – New statistics released by Turkey’s statistical institute, TurkStat, shows that about 30 percent of the country’s population is Kurdish. According to birth records of Kurds in Turkey that was released by TurkStat, there are 22,691,824 Kurds in Turkey who mainly live in the southeast, Rudaw Newspaper,...
Moderate quake hits Turkey
17/09/2012 19:15ERBIL, September 17 (AKnews) – A medium earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale hit Adana province west of Turkey.Turkish news agency Jihan reported that the earthquake struck Junari village of Kuzan town yesterday. There are no reports of casualties or damage yet, according to the source. By Abdul Qader Al-Wandawi HH/RY/AKnews
Turkish policeman killed in suicide bombing in Istanbul
11/09/2012 17:27ERBIL, Sep. 11 (AKnews) – One Turkish policeman was killed and four other policemen and three civilians were wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a police station in the Sultangai district of Istanbul city, Turkish media reported. The bomber first threw a hand grenade into the police...
Baghdad-Erbil oil dispute will get solved, says Hayward
08/09/2012 14:43
ERBIL, September 8 (AKnews) – The Kurdistan Region's oil plan is to produce one million barrels of oil per day over the next couple of years and this size of production will end the political dispute between Iraq and the region, said Genel chief executive Tony Hayward.Hayward said: "The scale of the opportunity for Kurdistan and for...
25 Turkish soldiers killed in weapons cache bombing
07/09/2012 01:47ERBIL, Sept. 6 (AKnews) – At least 25 Turkish soldiers were killed on Thursday when a weapons cache in Afium Kara Hissar province, in central Turkey, that they were working in went off. Cihan News Agency reported that the 25 soldiers were working on organizing and categorizing the weapons and ammunition when the explosion took...
Turkish teacher sent to prison for likening Erdogan to Hitler
06/09/2012 04:18ERBIL, Sep. 5 (AKNews) – A Turkish school teacher has been sentenced to one year and 15 days by a Turkish court after he was found guilty of likening Prime Minister Recep Teyyip Erdogan to Adolf Hitler. The court found the teacher, identified as Oktay Zaif, guilty of “politically aiming to distance military students from Prime...
BDP office attacked in Adiman
05/09/2012 06:02ERBIL, Sept. 4 (AKnews) – Angry Turk demonstrators attacked a Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) – Turkey’s largest Kurdish political party – office in Adiman province on Tuesday following an attack by Kurdish rebels on Monday that killed at least 10 soldiers. The demonstrators tried to storm the BDP office and fly Turkish flags...
PKK kidnaps AKP official in Hakkari
04/09/2012 00:03ERBIL, Sep. 3 (AKnews) – Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels kidnapped on Monday Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AKP)’ Hakkari official, Turkish media reported. The kidnapping of the official cames a day following a deadly attack by the PKK rebels on security and military outposts in Sirnak province that killed at...
Iranian intelligence allegedly spying in Turkey
03/09/2012 00:32ERBIL, Sep. 2 (AKnews) - Turkish police have said Iran is spying on the country as relations between the two countries deteriorated over Syria where the two neighbours have taken opposite sides.Turkish police said video tapes and confessions of a group of spys working for the Islamic Republic’s intelligence service among them two Iranian...
Garmian security impedes publication of local magazine
01/09/2012 16:26
ERBIL, September 1 (AKnews) – Local magazine Geran in Garmian district said Garmian security (Asayish) has asked them to stop publishing because of stories exposing corruption in the district and the release of the fourth edition of the mag.The magazine said in a statement: "After unmasking the corruption of a number of officials...
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The problem with the publication of Kurdish books is getting them out to the people who are yearning to read them. There are few methods of distribution to provide literature for the readers. Libraries, book shops and kiosks are present in some towns, but these don’t exist everywhere. Even in the big cities, the libraries are in the wrong place and there is a lack of proper halls for book fairs.
Despite many efforts, the books never find their way to the right people - books and right readers, like old stories of the lover and the one he longs for, are destined to remain estranged.
But this will not be so for much longer. Aras Publishers have finally found a solution to this perennial problem through launching a mobile bookshop to deliver books to the places where they have failed to reach before. The mobile bookshop is a 15-meter bus, the inside of which is an Aladdin’s cave for book-lovers, holding thousands of titles.
The book bus will strip away the old problems of getting literature to the masses. The Aras bus will come to wherever you are – truly it is a revolution of the Kurdish enlightenment.
