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As an ancient-rooted and a living spring-new year festival, Nowruz has influenced all nations and religious traditions that had encountered the Iranian plateau and were neighbors of the Iranian plateau. In this study, I will deal with the similarities and differences between the Zoroastrian-based Nowruz and the non-Zoroastrian Anatolian Nowruz feast. The main idea is to demonstrate the impact and influence of Zoroastrian-Iranian Nowruz on Anatolian communities and to uncover roots of Nowruz which has varied influence on all Anatolian communities, especially Kurds and Zazas moreso than Turks. Additionally, this paper tries to clarify how Nowruz become a non-Zoroastrian festival and to debunk claims that Nowruz is an ancient Turkic spring feast, not to dedicate Anatolian Nowruz to Turks. Every community or ethnicity relates to Nowruz using different concerns in Anatolia. For instance, Turkic tribes that had emigrated from Central Asia to Anatolia interestingly related the Nowruz feast to their origin myth. According to that myth, they were secluded in the Ergenekon area and they had tried to melt the iron mountain. Whenever they had saved themselves, the time of salvation had become a commemorative day. Meanwhile, this day coincided with the first day of the spring season and was celebrated as a New Year and salvation day. Instead of that, they have surprisingly called this feast as Nowruz. Moreover, they embraced Nowruz and claimed it as a Turkic feast. After the Islamizing of Anatolia, especially under Ottoman rule, Nowruz had been celebrated as a semi-official feast and the spring feast had been, and still is, called ‘Nowruz’ in various dialects, such as Sultani Nevruz, Navrez, Navsarız, Mevris, Gulnavriz and so on. Nowruz is celebrated in the Anatolian lands as a non-Zoroastrian festival. However, it has a deeply interesting relationship wi

October 16, 2023

Dear President Biden,

On October 7, Hamas committed deliberate atrocities against Israeli civilians. We join other Americans in condemning Hamas’s killing and kidnapping of unarmed families and children, and we call for the immediate release of those still being held hostage. So too we condemn the Israeli government’s escalating response, which is killing and displacing unarmed families and children in Gaza with the apparent support of the United States government. We therefore call for President Biden to seek an immediate cease-fire.

The rising death toll among civilians in Gaza is a consequence not only of a direct military onslaught, but also the Israeli government’s deprivation of the basic means of survival for the population as a whole. As of this writing, 2.3 million people are down to a trickle of potable water. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has observed that Gazans “have resorted to consuming brackish water extracted from agricultural wells” because wastewater treatment sources have been cut off from electricity and fuel. It has also expressed “deepening concerns about dehydration and the outbreak of waterborne diseases, including cholera.” Yet a blackout imposed by Israel is impeding the provision of medical care and disrupting the food supply. The International Committee of the Red Cross reports that “without electricity, hospitals in Gaza risk turning into morgues.” Combined with Israel’s barring the entry of food into Gaza, the blackout has imperiled food security by disrupting the refrigeration and irrigation of crops, with wheat flour reserves expected to be depleted this week. Experts have warned of starvation conditions amounting to war crimes. And for many Gazans, there is no escape. The bombardment has already destroyed roads and infrastructure across Gaza. Under these circumstances, nearly one million people have a