Yesterday, the 10-year old Mehmet Ezer was shot in the head by the police with a tear-gas canister. The incident took place during a rally for the pro-Kurdish BDP in Silvan, a town of Diyarbakir. After getting the initial treatment …
Posted in BDP, Leyla Zana, Turkey, Violence, Youth | 1 CommentErgani – 6 members of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) youth assembly were Friday night detained by undercover police, reports Dicle News Agency. They were arrested after leaving a football match and brought to Ergani District Police Headquarters. …
Posted in BDP, Political Prisoners, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on 3 youth members of BDP arrested for propagandaThe President of Southern Kurdistan visited Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast for the first time in nearly two decades, and gave a speech alongside Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on prolonging the peace settlement. As a way of celebrating Kurdish culture and …
Posted in BDP, Kurdistan, Turkey | 2 CommentsLast year, the American news website, Gawker, released internal documents from within an outsourcing firm which employs “content moderators” to screen content posted on Facebook. Gawker obtained the documents from an employee of the firm, Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year old Moroccan …
Posted in Activism, BDP, Censorship, Discrimination, Free speech, Turkey | 2 CommentsThe mayor of Nusaybin district, Ayse Gokkan has been protesting against the construction of a wall at the Turkish-Syrian border between the two cities of Qamishli and Nusaybin. The wall has been dubbed as a “wall of shame” a phrase …
Posted in Activism, BDP, Call to Actions, Campaigns, Kurdistan, Women | 3 CommentsLast week, on the first day of scheduled classes in Turkey, thousands of Kurdish schoolchildren did not go to school. In fact, students in primary and secondary school boycotted the first week entirely to demand their right to education in …
Posted in BDP, Culture, Discrimination, Protests, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Reclaiming the Mother Tongue: BDP’s School BoycottIn December of 2011, a group of 40 Kurdish men and young boys were crossing the border of Iraq into Turkey with mules carrying smuggled goods. Sugar and fuel made up the large bulk of their contraband. As they approached …
Posted in BDP, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Justice For the Roboski Massacre Will Not Be Found In a Military CourtThe Saturday Mothers of Turkey gathered in the Galatasaray Square in Istanbul this week again instead of visiting their children at their graveyards. Meeting at the Galatasaray Square for the 437th time this year with the pictures of their beloved …
Posted in BDP, Campaigns, Protests, Trials, Turkey, Women, Youth | Comments Off on Saturday Mothers of Turkey: “Human Life or Political Power?”