Monthly Archives: December 2008

Turkey jails Kurdish politician

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Leyla Zana is an outspoken critic of Turkey’s evident discrimination against the Kurdish minority. She has been fighting for Kurdish human rights for many years and was previously imprisoned for 10 years, a harsh price for her peaceful activism. The …

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Turkey: Children face up to 58 years in prison for protest

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Istanbul, 1 Dec. (AKI) – A prosecutor in southern Turkey on Monday charged six children for attacking police with stones in a recent street protest in support of Kurdish separatists. According to the news site of Hurriyet, the stone-throwing youths …

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