Monthly Archives: October 2011

Devastating Earthquake Leaves Kurds Short of Shelter

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

The 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 …

Share/Bookmark
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Kurdistan, Reports, Syria, Turkey, Urgent | Comments Off on Devastating Earthquake Leaves Kurds Short of Shelter

Iraqi Kurdistan stands up for its flag

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Khanaqin, Iraqi Kurdistan — On 11 October Khanaqin mayor Mohamed al-Mullah Hamed received a ruling on behalf Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri el Maliki ordering the Kurdish majority town to remove the Kurdish national flag from all government buildings. The order came …

Posted in Iraq, Kurdistan, Protests | Comments Off on Iraqi Kurdistan stands up for its flag

Thank you for booing

Posted on by Naila Bozo

Once upon a time someone booed at me, I looked incredulously at my heckler but then I had an epiphany and the epiphany was this: To live is to be booed at. A Tale of Two Worlds The booing and …

Posted in Free speech, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Thank you for booing

We Are All Meshaal Tamo: Syrians furious after assassination of Kurdish leader

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Qamişlo, Syria: Prominent Kurdish activist, founder of the Kurdish Future Part and member of the newly formed Syrian National Council Meshaal Tamo was assassinated by Syrian thugs in his own home on Friday. His son Marcel Tammo and another Kurdish …

Posted in Protests, Syria | Comments Off on We Are All Meshaal Tamo: Syrians furious after assassination of Kurdish leader

I am Kurdistan

Posted on by Naila Bozo

The first few summers of my life I spent in our garden with my cheek against the rough, grey wooden fence, carefully tilting my head so I could admire our neighbours’ garden. It was Paradise. The grass was lush and …

Posted in Activism, Culture, Discrimination | Comments Off on I am Kurdistan

Not Quite the Bastille: Kurds protest at the Guardian while Turkey continues its assault

Posted on by Suzan Boulad (Syria)

Friday morning brought an unusual disruption to the London offices of the international newspaper, The Guardian. Fifteen Kurdish youth stormed the office as they sought a new means of amplifying the Kurdish voice within mainstream media. The group assembled in …

Posted in Activism, Journalists, Turkey | Comments Off on Not Quite the Bastille: Kurds protest at the Guardian while Turkey continues its assault