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 | Comments Off on Times Online: PKK leader offers Turkey an olive branch to end warSix 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 …
Posted in Censorship, Democratic Society Party, Free speech, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on DTP MPs Face Prosecution in Turkey Despite ImmunityReport from Kurdish Herald details escalation of violence and arrests in Turkey. Siyar Ozsoy reports: Local Elections in Diyarbakir, Kurdish Conference in Erbil: Is There Any Space for Hope? Kurdish Herald Issue 1 May 2009 – Siyar Ozsoy – Members …
Posted in Democratic Society Party, Discrimination, Free speech, Hunger Strikes, Political Prisoners, Suppression, Turkey, Violence | Comments Off on KH: DTP announces number of imprisoned members in Turkey reaches 222Bianet’s Emine Özcan reports on the recent hunger strike led by members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey. The hunger strike is being led in protest of the recent mass arrests against members of the DTP as …
Posted in Censorship, Democratic Society Party, Executions, Genocide, Hunger Strikes, Iraq, Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, Political Prisoners, Turkey | Comments Off on 5,000 People on 2-Day Hunger Strike in Protest of DTP ArrestsFrom Reuters: BAGHDAD, May 5 (Reuters) – Iraq summoned Iran’s ambassador to condemn Iranian shelling of villages in its northern Kurdistan region, the Iraqi government said on Tuesday, warning of “negative consequences” if attacks continue. Iran shelled a Kurdish village …
Posted in Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Suppression, Violence | Comments Off on Iraq condemns Iranian shelling of Kurd villages