Leyla Zana, a prominent Kurdish politician and the first Kurdish woman to win a seat in Turkish parliament, has been sentenced by the Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal Court to 10 years in prison. The charges are in response to “nine …
Posted in Activism, BDP, Censorship, Leyla Zana, Political Prisoners, Trials, Turkey, Women | 1 CommentRajai Shahr Prison, Iran- Two Kurdish prisoners who have been on death row in Iran since December 2010 sent a letter out of their jail cell in commemoration of the two year anniversary of the execution of Kurdish teacher Farzad Kamangar, and four other …
Posted in Executions, Iran | Comments Off on A letter from Prison honors Kurds executed in Iran34 Kurdish civilians were killed by Turkish warplanes late at night in late December 2011. They were mostly teenagers, smuggling food into their village. Dozens of protesters in Istanbul commemorated the Uludere massacre today. Judging by the lack of reports …
Posted in Turkey | 2 CommentsKime ez? asked Cegerxwîn (1903 – 1984), a celebrated Kurdish poet. Who am I? Nobody, the Syrian government answered, you do not exist. In August 1962 the Syrian government ordered a census in the province of Hasakeh which was carried …
Posted in Kurdistan, Syria | Comments Off on I exist, said the Kurdish dragonAmoude, Syria- A small girl with a giant voice chants about how beautiful freedom is while a wave of men smile and dance behind her, waving Syrian and Kurdish flags. The Kurdish region of Syria has continued to see campaigns …
Posted in Protests, Syria | 1 CommentThe history of Kurdish people is largely unknown, not because it is impossible to find out about Kurds, but simply because the Kurdish cause has not been sensationalised. Among Muslims little sympathy is shown to Kurdish people, despite the fact …
Posted in Turkey | 1 CommentHundreds of children have been poisoned by milk earlier today in Turkey, the majority of these children were Kurdish. It is unclear whether this was poor governmental management or lack of monitoring which has caused this at this stage, but …
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