Dear visitors to this site
Dear friends of the J N Foundation!
If you want to find out about the important developments of our foundation in 2024, they are summarized in our last newsletter 2/2024, including our current financial concept. Unfortunately, we can only pay the minimum wage to those who work for us in a fee contract. We are happy about everyone who volunteers in our foundation.
After our first international Online! Seminar on February 1, 2025, a number of other such seminars are in preparation for this year, which will be announced here on this website.
We are happy to say that in the first month in 2025 the work on the estate of our namesake has received valuable further support. This was when Dr. Pherset Rosbeiani volunteered to join. As mentioned in our newsletter 2/2024, Halo Berzinjeyie actively started as representative of our namesake's estate - as well as of the JN Library & Archive - in the summer of last year and continues to do so at our Berlin location.
As an international foundation by and for Kurds, we attach great importance to organizing all our events with a Zoom panel so that they always serve to connect with interested parties and active contributors both at home and overseas. This also applies to our Open House, which we are planning for July 12 this year.
Let's sum it up. After a month in the new year 2025 we can say that our foundation is staying on course in the spirit of Jemal Nebez and with the means at our disposal,
Let's take into account the changed world of the present
The world is changing. False hopes and promises only steal our time. Let's focus on our strengths. Let's keep working. We stick to it:
Let's take into account the changed world of the present
Genocide does not become statute-barred, nor does the unlawful division of a cultural nation.
Let us address the documented history of suffering of the Kurds and their difficult current situation again and again, whenever we have the opportunity, and look for new innovative ways to do so.
We are striving for recognition for Kurds, also for what they have already made in terms of contributions to the World Heritage Site.
Supporting members are always welcome!
Let us remain confident!
Best regards
The Board
Hanne Küchler, Jan Gosau, Sirwan Renas
Jemal Nebez Foundation
Non-profit and legally capable
Jan 31, 2025
Here in the gallery below we show some books and writings of our namesake, which are listed on his former website www.jemalnebez.org which is now administered by the Jemal Nebez Foundation.
If you have a not yet listed writing of Jemal Nebez in your possession, please let us know, gladly via our contact form. The goal is a comprehensive directory of the works and writings of our namesake. Any help is welcome.
Dear visitors to this site!
Dear friends of the Jemal Nebez Foundation!
We wish all religions and nations eternal peace!
We pray for Kobane and all of Rojava/West-Kurdistan.
Dear Visitors to this site!
What a challenging year!
We are still in the process of reorganizing our library project, but important contacts have been established and preparatory work has been done for the new start.
The international activities that were successfully launched last year are being continued and are in the process of being anchored in our foundation.
Our new start has been put on the right track
Details on this will be provided at our Zoom Online Annual General Meeting on December 14.
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What also challenged us this year was the crisis mode that gripped everyday life via the media. No less than three mega-crises have occupied politicians worldwide, right up to the highest level, and also the media worldwide, throughout the year and continue to do so.
There was the climate crisis with the increasing number of major natural disasters around the world.
There were always new updates on Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, which has not stopped escalating and has now been going on for three years without negotiations between the two parties.
And thirdly, a new kind of war or terror-war situation emerged at the beginning of this year - after the terrorist attack by the Palestinian Hamas from Gaza on Israel in October 2023 - which originated or was tolerated by states in the immediate vicinity of Israel. Even from distant Iran, which, in the case of the rockets it fired at Israel, took responsibility without being asked and called it a retaliatory action.
Here on our homepage in April of this year, we briefly mentioned the partition of the Kurds for which the victorious powers of the First World War were responsible. More precisely, it was the partition of the part of Kurdistan that had fallen to the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century in a historic treaty with Safavid Iran (Treaty of Qasre-Shirin, 1639), while the other part (today Rojhelat/Eastern Kurdistan in Iran) did not experience any state reallocation, as Qajar Iran had remained neutral in the First World War.
As for the further partition that was carried out on that part of Kurdistan formerly belonging to the Ottoman Empire, in a long and painful process during which three new states were founded, first and foremost Turkey (1923), followed by Iraq (1932) and finally, shortly after the founding of the UNO in 1945) Syria was founded (1946).
Two years later, in 1948 it was Israel's turn. Then the NATO was founded, in 1949. By that time the Cold War was already in full swing.
We are indeed looking to the new era and the present with concern. When the cold war ended a new situation had already emerged. There used to be two, now there are several centers of power. The UN has revealed its helplessness and has retreated to managing conflicts. It seems that only strong states are trusted to make decisions.
Everything that is right and important and is ignored must be repeated.
This was also on our previous homepage. There is no statute of limitations on genocide, nor on the unlawful division of a cultural nation.
We intend to address the documented history of the suffering of the Kurds and their difficult current situation whenever we have the opportunity to do so, and we are looking for innovative ways to do so. We strive for recognition for Kurds, also for what they have already contributed to the world cultural heritage.
Let us remain confident!
Best regards
The Board
Hanne Küchler, Jan Gosau, Sirwan Renas
Jemal Nebez Foundation
Non-profit and legally capable
13.11.2024
Dear Visitors of this Site!
Dear friends of Jemal Nebez, dear Kurds!
2024-04-20
It is hard to believe, but these terrible times for Kurds everywhere, but especially in their home regions, go on and on.
It is clearer than ever: the Kurds are endangered as a people and a nation, and not least where they are at home, in their ancestral settlement area of Kurdistan, which is located in the heart of the Middle East and as a result of the First World War - in a process that dragged on until shortly after the end of the Second World War - was divided up into several newly founded nation states without having one itself.
After the end of the war, the Kurds were granted a state in 1920. Then they were overrun by the founding of Turkey, which - shortly afterwards - began a new kind of genocidal policy against the Kurds now living within its borders in the north of Kurdistan. At the same time, the mandate powers tasked with the reorganization of the remaining mass of the defunct Ottoman Empire were more concerned with securing their own advantages than with finding a solution for the Kurds of southern and western Kurdistan entrusted to their care. They and the League of Nations (followed by the UN) failed shamefully to secure lasting rights for these Kurds within the newly created Arab nation states of Iraq (1932) and Syria (1946), if they were to remain without a state of their own.
What is right and important, and is ignored, must be repeated
There is no statute of limitations on genocide, nor on the unlawful division of a cultural nation. We see it as our duty to repeatedly address the documented history of the suffering of the Kurds and their difficult current situation, and we are looking for new and innovative ways to do so. Without this, there will be no satisfaction for Kurds which they deserve and no recognition for what Kurds have already contributed to the world cultural heritage independently and under difficult conditions.
New supporting members are always welcome
We are delighted that Hoshang Sabri, who has lived in Berlin for decades and is now a retired pharmacist, became our first supporting member in March of this year.
Let's stay confident!
Warm greetings
Hanne Küchler, Jan Gosau, Sirwan Renas SalihzadeBoard of Directors
Jemal Nebez Foundation
Non-profit, with legal capacity
April 20, 2024
