Forbidding a peaceful way is opening the doors of violence

We as Iranian Kurdistan Pen Association express our worry about Turkish Court’s stance and we believe that these ways of confronting to the activism of a party like Democratic Society is not of any benefit for Turkish state and also cannot prevent the crisis in Turkey. We also believe that each pace of making obstacles in front of the civic and democratic parties, is a pace towards war and crisis and of this window we believe that the Turkish court sentence shows a wrong stance.
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Respect to civil rights and civil demands of People!

Iranian people have participated in presidential election on Friday, June 12th in order to supporting reform and democratic change in Iran. This will to supporting reform in the continuation of their fights to gain their civil rights were and are in order to reform and democratization of the political system in Iran.
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Manifest of Iranian Kurdistan Pen Association for stopping pressures on Iranian Writers
The most important thing for the countries which want to develop themselves is to prepare a free space for discussions among their citizens. So, the freedom of speech and freedom of publishing which is known as the forth column of democracies are the most important elements for progression and development of the societies. Contrarily, there are systems which are being damaged by the freedom of speech and publishing; we generally call them "totalitarian" systems, which deprive any rights to expressing ideas.

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Interview with Professor Michael Behe
Michael Behe is a professor in the department of biological sciences at Lehigh University in the United States. He has written a book under the title of Darwin’s Black Box, in which he has criticized Darwinism. His idea is based on some notion called as Irreducible complexity. . He is very famous feature of Anti-Darwinism. He was one of the witnesses the Court in Kitzmiller vs Dover Area School District 2005 who was defending the idea that intelligent design was a science and not religion.
Arash Daklan

Dear Mediterranean Sea
The magical blue waves of the Mediterranean and the soft sound of their whisper mingle with the sounds of laughter and joy of the tourists occupying the stern of the large white boat with the letters Zorba emblazoned on its hull.  Mykonos is a fragment of paradise: through lips of magic blue tranquility she can tell you many a tale of Aphrodite and Hermes, but has yet to hear my sad story.

By Simko Ahmed

Declaration

LET PREVENT HUMAN BEING BE SUBJECT TO DISCRIMINATION BASED ON DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW OR OPINION

On the basis of the website of Kurdistan Human Rights (KHRN) more than eighty Kurd prisoners, who all of them are convicted for their political and civic activities, have begun a hunger strike.
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Organizational Readiness Assessment for Knowledge Management

Knowledge management (KM) comprises a range of practices used by organizations to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge. In recent decades, there has been proliferation of KM projects in many organizations.

Kaveh Mohammadi

Without A Name

We joined together, I and the turquoise dream

then we became rain, big rain

lost in the rivers …

HIWA .HOSSEIN PANAHI

Accepted Manuscript

Maintenance, as a support function in businesses, plays an important role in backing up any emerging business and operation strategies. It is required to maximize the reliability of equipment and systems. Among them, Preventive maintenance (PM) involves the repair, replacement, and maintenance of equipment in order to avoid unexpected failure during use.

Kaveh Mohammadi

IRAN:

HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AGAINST THE KURDISH MINORITY

Even if dying of hunger or from poverty

Still I will not serve strangers all my life long,

I have no fear of chains, ropes, rods, or the prison

Should they hack me into pieces, should they kill me

Still I will say: I am a Kurd!1
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I have passed the borders of atheism, too.

Beyond the borders full of the waves of worshiping

I have found people who

they are more comfort without God.

Narin Mohamady

 Scientific rationalism and its relation with reductionism and physicalism
There are mainly two area of research that are considered to resist naturalistic approaches; biology and mind studies. In biology there are two interconnected approaches which claim that the naturalistic approach has failed; Irreducible Complexity and Intelligent Design.
Arash Daklan

Persecution of languages, Compromising humanity

Once again I thank you for offering me this chance to talk to you in this free platform. It is an honour talking to those using their free pen to serve humanity, yet it is rather hard talking in free platforms about languages facing the threat of elimination due to persecution while those with free pen are not doing much or perhaps doing very little about it.
Berivan Dosky

Lapdogs or watchdogs?

April 7, 2003 -- There is some truth in the dictum that “the first casualty of war is truth.” This claim is not, however, very enlightening. In the evolving postmodern environment, it would be more appropriate to argue that there is more than one truth. Even the claim about multiple truths is not new or radical.
Amir Hassanpour

The Assembly of Delegates of International PEN, meeting at its 73rd International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, 4 – 11 July 2007

Extremely concerned about the lack of progress in identifying and prosecuting those responsible for the torture and subsequent murder of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi; and the failure to bring to justice those who ordered the serial murders in the late 1990s of Iranian writers and intellectuals;

Renowned Kurdish-Iranian Filmmaker Banned from Shooting in Iran by Iranian Censors

In a press statement dated 19 January, Ghobadi stated that he first learned of the ban on a cinema website on which the Cinema Department in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance had announced ‘Under current circumstances and according to numerous reasons and based on regulations production of any film by Bahman Ghobadi is not within the professional filmmaking agenda of the General Censors Office'. Though he initially believed that there had been some sort of misunderstanding, enquiries by his office did not elicit any formal denial of the ban by officials.