Measles vaccines that were injected to children in the Kurdish provinces of Urfa, Diyarbakır and Batman during the rule of Osman Durmuş, the former minister of health of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), have led thousands of children to death …
Posted in Health, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Turkish Ministry of Health Injects Kurdish Children with Deadly VaccineThe Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan said on the occasion of the international human rights day on 10 December 2012 the following: Protecting and developing human rights, democracy and principles of the state of law have been some of our …
Posted in Call to Actions, Discrimination, Health, Political Prisoners, Torture, Turkey, Women | Comments Off on 79-Year-Old Kurdish Mother: “I don’t want to die in this prison!”Having been prosecuted and detained at the airport due to his Kurdish songs, Hozan Comert has been deported on grounds that he is not a citizen of Turkey and his entering Turkey despite the investigation launched against him is against …
Posted in Free speech, Turkey | 1 CommentKurdish mothers did not celebrate Mother’s Day this year either. Some of them have children who are guerillas in the mountains, some of them are behind bars, and some have lost their lives in conflicts. Özgür Gündem Newspaper in Turkey …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Free speech, Mass Graves, Political Prisoners, Torture, Turkey, Women | Comments Off on No Mother’s Day for Kurdish MothersOn May 9, 2010 five political prisoners were executed in Iran, all sentenced with “enmity against God.” Four of them were Kurds: Farzad Kamanger, Shirin Alam Hooli, Ali Heydarian and Farhad Vakili. They fought for the rights of the Kurdish …
Posted in Activism, Discrimination, Executions, Free speech, Iran, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials | Comments Off on The Words of Farzad KamangerKurdistan is a region whose residents have not had the right to choose a long life with natural death for decades. Kurds have been exposed to numerous crimes against humanity ever since Kurdistan, their country, was divided into four parts …
Posted in Executions, Mass Graves, Turkey, Violence | Comments Off on Human Bones Found in Kurdish Cities in TurkeyAmidst the many analyses of what changes the withdrawal of PKK will bring, one important issue is drowning in the political game: The plight of the Kurdish people in Turkey. The impression is that PKK was standing in the way …
Posted in Discrimination, Free speech, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Eyes on Turkey, not the PKKHatice Yaşar, one of the former consultants of the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, has been detained at the Esenboğa Airport where she arrived this morning. She has been arrested after being interrogated by the Istanbul 3rd Court authorized with the …
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