Monthly Archives: September 2013

Reclaiming the Mother Tongue: BDP’s School Boycott

Posted on by Tasbeeh Herwees

Last week, on the first day of scheduled classes in Turkey, thousands of Kurdish schoolchildren did not go to school. In fact, students in primary and secondary school boycotted the first week entirely to demand their right to education in …

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From Pen to Sword: Kurdish Women Warriors in Syria

Posted on by Naila Bozo

In January 2011, I got lost in Qamişlo, the unofficial capital of Rojava (West Kurdistan/northern Syria). I wandered around the streets that all looked alike: broken pavements, small houses side by side with flat roofs, bigger and three-storey high buildings …

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Justice For the Roboski Massacre Will Not Be Found In a Military Court

Posted on by Tasbeeh Herwees

In December of 2011, a group of 40 Kurdish men and young boys were crossing the border of Iraq into Turkey with mules carrying smuggled goods. Sugar and fuel made up the large bulk of their contraband. As they approached …

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War Crimes Against Kurds in Turkey Still Go Unpunished

Posted on by Uzay Bulut

On 3 October 1993, Turkish soldiers set fire to the house of Nasır Öğüt and his family in the Kurdish town of Vartinis in Muş, burning him, his wife and seven children to death. Aysel Öğüt, the only surviving member …

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