As a white American, I have never experienced firsthand how your own government can tear your life and family apart. I understood that blacks and Native Americans and other minorities suffered under a system built for whites, but never intuitively, …
Posted in BDP, Turkey | Comments Off on Detainees Formally Charged In the Case Against the BDPOn Friday morning, while I dressed for work and my wife, Xezal, made me breakfast, the police were ransacking my father-in-law’s house just blocks away. According to Xezal’s little sister, they took down every one of his books, flipped through …
Posted in Call to Actions, Turkey | Comments Off on Mass Arrests of Kurdish Intellectuals in IstanbulOn 19 October, 24 PKK rebels were killed by the Turkish armed forces in the Çukurca district. Human Rights Association in Hakkari is investigating allegations of chemical weapons used against PKK rebels by Turkish armed forces. Samples from the ground have …
Posted in Call to Actions, Featured, Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, Turkey | 5 CommentsYoung Iranian Kurds Loghman Moradi and Zaniar Moradi have been fighting for their lives ever since they were sentenced to death by hanging by the Iranian regime on December 22nd, 2010. The two men have spent years in Iranian prisons, …
Posted in Call to Actions, Iran | Comments Off on Take Action to halt the execution of two Kurdish citizens in Iran!