Here is a link to my recent piece on Torture on my personal blog, it doesn't have much to deal with Kurdistan…but well….can I help it if I wish to have a shameless plug to something that I thought was a good piece of writing?

Also along the lines of Torture, Amnesty International has just released a press announcement about mis-treatment of Kurdish refugees in Jordan.  While this may be true, I had no idea that there was a Kurdish refugee camp there….I am hoping that I am not the only one of the Kurdish bloggers who is surprised by this. 

Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) has published their 2005 Kurdish Human Rights Impact Report, it is available for download. 

They do great work, and the Director is a friend of mine, support them if you can. 

Ok, so I changed the theme again back to the original one.  I realized that the other themes did not list who posted an article…and while there are at this time only two authors (me- that is Delal but the post name is kurdistanblogcount and our dear friend Hiwa) I felt that it was still important to give the current credit where it is due.

They had some new templates and I felt like a change.

Here is a list of other blog count links that you may or may not be interested in.

Syria Planet

Saudi Blogs

itoot

who is missing no longer.  Like many out there who start to blog he received some heavy critisim and had to re-do his site under another name.  His new link address will be updated both on the sidebar and the RSS feed.

Again, many thanks to Vladimir for the update!

Ahh…the wonders of Technorati.  I found a new Kurdish News website called Kurdish Aspect, which has an accompanying blog.

Also, thanks to Hiwa for the link to this site, Awene.

Last week I posted about a new blogger from Iran who posted on a site called Kurdistan News.  His site is apparently down, possibly erased, and I am concerned about his safety.  If anyone knows about him can you please let me know.  I am going to try and put some feelers out for him and hopefully I can find something.

Currently the title for my Kurdish roundups on Global Voices is “Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere”, which I am not sure whether or not I actually like.  So for my 10+ readers I would like to offer a comment contest (the prize being me using your suggestion) to come up with a new name for the weekly article.  So please, comment away.

As most of you know, I write a weekly column covering Kurdish Bloggers for a website called Global Voices.  I will be interviewed tomorrow to discuss the year in Kurdish blogs on the BBC Radio show World Have Your Say, from 1845 to 1900 GMT.  If you have time, please tune in.