The 7.2 earthquake in the Kurdish city of Van, in eastern Turkey has left 600,000 people affected and left homeless. The total death toll has risen to 471 and 1,650 people injured. The response to aid the victims have been …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Kurdistan, Reports, Syria, Turkey, Urgent | Leave a commentKhanaqin, Iraqi Kurdistan — On 11 October Khanaqin mayor Mohamed al-Mullah Hamed received a ruling on behalf Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri el Maliki ordering the Kurdish majority town to remove the Kurdish national flag from all government buildings. The order came …
Posted in Iraq, Kurdistan, Protests | Leave a commentOnce upon a time someone booed at me, I looked incredulously at my heckler but then I had an epiphany and the epiphany was this: To live is to be booed at. A Tale of Two Worlds The booing and …
Posted in Free speech, Turkey, Youth | Leave a commentQamişlo, Syria: Prominent Kurdish activist, founder of the Kurdish Future Part and member of the newly formed Syrian National Council Meshaal Tamo was assassinated by Syrian thugs in his own home on Friday. His son Marcel Tammo and another Kurdish …
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