Monthly Archives: November 2015
Posted on November 30, 2015 by Naila Bozo
His voice was one of reconciliation and promotion of a peaceful solution to the decades long struggle between the Turkish state and the armed Kurdish resistance movement, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). But on Saturday the voice of Mr. Tahir …
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Executions,
Free speech,
Turkey |
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Posted on November 15, 2015 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
According to Evrensel Media, the Women’s Commission of Kobane Canton, one of three cantons that make up the Rojava self-rule, has passed new regulations that ban underage marriages, polygamy and exchange of brides within the family. Zêrîn Kutay and Rabîa …
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Kurdistan,
Syria,
Women |
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Kobane,
Rights,
Rojava,
Syria,
women |
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Posted on November 8, 2015 by Naila Bozo
On November 1st, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained its majority in Turkey’s parliament which will secure the continuation of the single-party government that has been ruling Turkey the past 13 years. The votes were much to the dismay …
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Discrimination,
Syria,
Terror,
Turkey |
Tagged
Freedom,
ISIS,
Kurdish rights,
Kurds,
PKK,
Syria,
Turkey |
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