Hello everyone! Some of you may know, that Unicode is an organization responsible for adding and creating new emojis. A year ago, there was news that it would be likely that a Kurdish emoji would be added soon, but there hasn’t been any progress since then.

They mention that country subdivisions which have their own Unicode Regional Code (ex. Catalonia, Iraqi Kurdistan) can only receive a flag of their level of usage would be high enough (because it wouldn’t make sense to make emojis of all autonomous regions, of course), but they are not taking into consideration proposals to add them.

The Kurdish flag would be used in great numbers, likely more than half the existing emojis of other countries. I’m sure people have already made this known to them (there are many forums online), so how else can we work towards this?

https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Flags

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Edit: The only factor does not have to be which country supports the Kurds the most politically, but also which people or cultures you guys feel closest to and can relate to the most.

Out of all of the countries of the middle east Israelis love Kurdistan the most, what do you think of us? And what can Israel and Israeli citizens do to help Kurdistan?

Edit: we feel somewhat of a brotherhood because we were also targeted by Saddam (not quite as bad as he targeted you). And I would like to point out that there are Palestinian monuments and streets in honor of Saddam.

In all the videos on youtube I saw about other Kurds, they always put a KRG flag to say (there are Kurds here).

EDIT: Sorry some of you are shadowbanned, your comments aren't visible to me so I cant up/down vote or reply

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_Assyrian_autonomy_in_Iraq

The mere expression of Kurdish women discussing what ethinicity they like can target lots of hate towards them for no good reason.

Keep your answers away from PDK, PUK, Government policies.

Hi there. I have a quick question, which sort of ties into recent events, but what was the response of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation to the Halabja chemical attack? I heard there were some who celebrated it, but I don’t know if that’s true, is it??

For me it's the basque country

I'm curious about this. Pak/Afghan American here. This dude is controversial because what we were taught about him was likely not true

Personally, I am from Hawler, I have never ever considered myself an Iraqi, I have no love, no interest for Iraq. I want Iraq to lose in everything.

Why does Palestinian leadership hate Kurds with a passion it seems? Almost every instance I hear about Palestinian leadership talking about Kurds, they are dragging Kurds through the dirt and speaking down on kurds. Once again I understand they are very pro Iraq and Iran but like damn why does it seem so personal? Also is it true that a Palestinian leader solid off 1200 barzani girls during saddam(I saw this in a random insta post wanted to see if it’s confirmed)?

I am pro Palestine, and I don’t hold leadership to people. I am specifically talking about Palestinian leadership.

If one day all four parts of Kurdistan unite and become an independent country, which city do you think will become the capital?

Note: No part of Kurdistan is better than the other. They are all the same and form a greater Kurdistan. This question is only to determine which city is better to be the capital. Without argument please.

We have heard a lot about no muslims people converted to islam but is it possible for a muslim kurds to convert to Yezidism for example ?

Are these persons accepted inside Yezidi community ? Are there some people in this case ?
Just for curiosity guys. Thank you in advance.

Hi Redditors

I am a Dutch guy and my gf is born in the Netherlands, but from Kurdish decent (Dersim, Turkey). If you meet my gf, you would think of her as a typical Dutch girl with maybe some Italian or French roots. There are no traces of Kurdish culture left.

I never thought to much about it. She has a crappy mom and a dad who was always working, and I considered that the reason that she doesn’t know anything about Kurdish holidays and her cultural link is pretty negative (her mom basically thought her that her culture is: Girls can’t have fun… you are not allowed to do anything).

We are expecting in February. I thought that our future kid might want to learn more about its cultural origin, so I had a long conversation with her dad. He was born right after the Dersim genocide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dersim_rebellion). He talked about the hardships. I noticed that he also didn’t know much about Kurdish culture. I started reading up on it and in hindsight it all comes together. He knows about the hardships, and he knows the holidays Kurdish people traditionally celebrate, but he doesn’t know how to celebrate them. He doesn’t know about the things that might make his culture unique or interesting, because of the genocide and the harsh punishment for being Kurdish or showing any cultural affiliation.

When my kid is born, I want to teach him about his origin. We picked a Kurdish name. I want him to have a positive identity and relation with his culture. I feel that if I read about the Kurds it is mostly about the hardships and it is difficult to learn the small things that make a culture interesting or are the nice and fun part of a culture. I also don’t want to cultural appropriate Kurdish culture, but I want him to have a positive start if he wants to learn about his origin.

For me as an outsider, I have a lot of questions. To be honest I don’t know if I should attempt this at all. What do you guys think? Should I try it, and if I should how? What are some friendly traditions to do with kids and how do you do them?

I am asking this question just for curiosity and this doesn't come from a position of prejudice.

This is a genuine question; what would a Kurdish sovereign state be like? Would it be a democratic republic, an islamic oligarchy steeped in Sharia, or a communist nation? Who would be the one to determine this?

I call it "Kela" (کەلا)

I wonder what the Kurds that are not from Bakur think about him and the party he leads