In an annual census of imprisoned journalists conducted by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Iran and Turkey were listed amongst the countries with the most number of arrests. Other countries noted as the world’s worst for journalists included China, …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Free speech, Iran, Journalists, Political Prisoners, Reports, Turkey | Leave a commentThe 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 commentIn the fight between Iran and Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) has killed two villagers two days ago; has killed tens of villagers in the last few months; and has forced more than 800 Iraqi Kurds to flee …
Posted in Displacements, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Protests, Reports | Leave a commentExhausted, enraged and hopeless Turkish youth seemed to be, shouldered with the Kurds in Istanbul demonstration on Thursday calling for the government to end the decades-old Kurdish problem that was for a long time ignored, and denied. “We are here …
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