Category: Reports

Turkish youth protesting in support of the Kurds

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi

Exhausted, 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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Iran killed a Kurdish activist under torture

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi

QIZLHASAR, Iran — Kamil Fethullahi a Kurdish civil activist from the suburb of Pawe who had been held in Qizlhasar Detention was killed under torture. Not long ago he was arrested in his accommodation in Tehran by a group of …

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Turkey lifts ban on some Kurdish candidates, results remain to be seen

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi

Turkey’s High Election Board on Monday the 18th banned 12 Kurdish politicians from running for the national election set in June. The 12 politicians are among the dozens of independent candidates running which the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) …

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“Without me, there will be civil war, there will be chaos:” The last card of unpopular dictators

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi

Hosni Mubarak, the ousted president of Egypt who ruled for 30 years, is said to have accumulated $70 billion from corruption and Egypt has been under Emergency Law as long. Under the law, the police power was extended, constitutional rights …

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