Monthly Archives: December 2012
Posted on December 29, 2012 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
On December 28, 2011 at around 9:30 p.m., a group of 37 villagers from Roboskî were hit by an aerial bombardment by the Turkish air force as they crossed back into Turkey from Iraqi Kurdistan. Thirty-four were killed. Seventeen of them …
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Human Rights Watch,
Protests,
Turkey,
Violence |
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Posted on December 27, 2012 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Tomorrow marks the 1 year anniversary of the Turkish military operation that resulted in a massacre in Roboskî (Uludere) which killed 34 civilian Kurds. To this day no one has been tried for this crime nor has there been a …
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Discrimination,
Human Rights Watch,
Reports,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 25, 2012 by Naila Bozo
A young Turkish man once asked me why Kurds resort to violence instead of peaceful dialogue to solve the Kurdish question in Turkey. I told him: ”You imprison our politicians and do not give them a chance to speak. You …
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Discrimination,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Media,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 23, 2012 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
The number of political prisoners in Turkey is increasing on a daily basis. Despite Turkey being criticised for its crackdowns on mostly Kurdish but also Turkish journalists, lawyers, politicians and activists, there hasn’t been sufficient pressure on Turkey to end …
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Activism,
BDP,
Censorship,
Free speech,
Hunger Strikes,
Journalists,
Media,
Political Prisoners,
Trials,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 20, 2012 by Suzan Boulad (Syria)
It is common knowledge among Kurdish communities that Turkey’s shining reputation as a moderate Middle Eastern democracy is false, and that Turkey’s suppression of its Kurdish population is accompanied by censorship, unfair detainment, and brutality. The United States also has …
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Reports,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 16, 2012 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Urmia Prison, West Azerbaijan Province of Iran: On Friday 15 December three Kurds were summarily executed in Urmia prison, among them Gafur Mirza, who’s father was executed last year. Part of Gafur’s last words were allegedly: “My only fault is …
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Executions,
Iran,
Prisoners of Conscience |
2 Comments
Posted on December 13, 2012 by Kastur
On December 5th, 2012, in a Kurdish inhabited village called Shinawa near Piranshaar in Iran, on a cold morning while all 37 students of the class, all girls in the age between 6 to 10, were in the class room with …
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General,
Iran |
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Posted on December 8, 2012 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Serêkaniyê, Rojava Syria- In the battle for the overthrow of the Assad government, Kurds in Rojava are struggling against more than just Assad’s forces. In an intense period of shelling from Assad’s government last month, six Kurdish civilians were killed in Serêkaniyê, …
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Protests,
Syria,
Torture |
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