Monthly Archives: April 2011

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

Posted on 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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Protests Grow in Syria’s Kurdish Towns (videos) UPDATED

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

UPDATE: New videos added at the end of the post. Despite attempts to pacify Kurdish protests by granting citizenship to most of Syria’s stateless Kurds, protesters have come out in several Kurdish towns yesterday (April 8). The peaceful protesters made …

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Kurds in Syria Granted Citizenship: What Now?

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

For over 50 years, over 300,000 Kurds in Syria were labeled foreigners in a 1963-census that was carried out in an arbitrary manner which restricted the “foreigner” Kurds acquiring employment, education, health, property, or even marriage. The government has banned …

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Syria to Grant Citizenship to Some of its Stateless Kurds

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Following the nation-wide protests in Syria, in which the Kurdish towns took an active part, the Assad regime is attempting to mollify the Kurdish protesters. A new decree by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is set to grant some stateless …

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Kurds continue to protest in Syria (videos) UPDATED

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Despite attempts by the Assad regime to mollify Kurds with offers of reform, they have once again gone out to the streets of their towns in Syria to protest against the regime and demand freedoms. The protests today (April 1) …

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