Monthly Archives: May 2013
Posted on May 30, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Azad Tokmak has started a new freedom campaign for his mother, Fatma Tokmak, a political prisoner who suffers from serious heart diseases. The freedom campaign aims to get his mother released from prison so that she can undergo a proper …
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Posted on May 29, 2013 by Jiyan Azadi
Three Kurdish female activists, Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, were horribly executed in the heart of Paris on January 9, 2013. This cold-blooded attack was committed by professionals – the Turkish “Gladio”, which is also known as the …
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Posted on May 29, 2013 by Tasbeeh Herwees
In 2011, in the Eastern city of Benghazi, whispers of dissent gave way to riotous revolution; Libyans took to the streets in unprecedented numbers, chanting anti-regime slogans, carrying signs and waving flags signaling their defiance. Two flags that were heretofore …
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Posted on May 28, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Mütha Çetin, a correspondent working for Dicle News Agency (mostly covers news about the Kurdish issue) has been detained in Istanbul, Fırat News Agency (ANF) reported. Çetin has been detained by police officers for an unknown reason while trying to …
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Posted on May 27, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Since 2006, thousands of children in Turkey, some as young as 12, have been prosecuted under the anti-terrorism legislation, solely for their alleged participation in demonstrations focused on issues of concern to members of the Kurdish community, Amnesty International reported. …
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Posted on May 25, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Ramazan Özalp, a Kurdish political prisoner in Antep Prison in Turkey, became paralysed due to the tumor in his brain. Despite this and having undergone 3 medical operations, Özalp has still not been released from prison, DIHA (Dicle News Agency) …
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Posted on May 24, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Taylan Çintay, a Kurdish political prisoner suffering from cancer, was hospitalized one day after his medical operation. He started bleeding as he was beaten at the entrance of the prison and was taken to the emergency room. The prison authorities …
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Posted on May 23, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Azad Tokmak will start a freedom campaign for his mother, Fatma Tokmak, a political prisoner suffering from serious heart diseases in Bakırköy Prison, to get his mother released and continue her treatment outside prison, Zeynep Kuray from Birgün Daily reported. …
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