From the Media in Cooperation and Transition network’s Iraq-focused website, Niqash, Karlos Zurutuza reports: Iraq’s Kurdish Region is becoming a favoured destination for an increasing number of Syrian Kurds deprived of nationality rights by authorities in Damascus. More than one …
Posted in Discrimination, Iraq, Suppression, Syria | 1 CommentFrom Spiegel Online, Daniel Steinvorth in Istanbul Reports: Part I: ‘We Used to Murder People at Night When the Soldiers Weren’t Around’ When members of the special Turkish police unit Jitem arrived at night, Kurdish inhabitants of southeast Turkey knew …
Posted in Executions, Mass Graves, Suppression, Terror, Turkey, Violence | 1 CommentFrom the U.K. Times Online, Anthony Loyd reports: PKK leader offers Turkey an olive branch to end war Anthony Loyd, Qandil Mountains – The Kurdish leader proposing to end a 25-year-long conflict with Turkey that has cost 30,000 lives believes …
Posted in Turkey, Violence | Leave a commentSix members of the pro-Kurdish DTP face trials because of speeches they made, despite having parliamentarian immunity. From Bianet, Tolga Korkut reports: Ahmet Türk, Emine Ayna, Fatma Kurtulan, Selahattin DemirtaÅŸ, Sebahat Tuncel and Aysel TuÄŸluk, all MPs for the pro-Kurdish …
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