Monthly Archives: November 2013

ICBL: Turkey slow to fulfill obligation and clear mined areas

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

The International Campaign to Ban Land Mines (ICBL) released its annual report for 2013, stating that Turkey has been slow to fulfill its obligation under article 5, concerning the destruction of antipersonnel mines in mined areas, of the Mine Ban …

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What peace process, Erdogan and Barzanî?

Posted on by Naila Bozo

On November 16, Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, uttered the word “Kurdistan” in public when he was giving a speech in the Kurdish city of Amed, its official name being Diyarbakir after order from Atatürk in 1937, the …

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Protest against Camera Surveillance in Turkish Prisons

Posted on by Asli Kücükyildiz and Naila Bozo

                  United Nation’s Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment states in its first principle that “All persons under any form of detention …

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Kurdish Political engagement and online activism

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

We have spoken about the plight and struggles of Kurdish people for decades. Numerous academic literature has been published, reports announced, and condemnations expressed of the horrific ordeal that many Kurdish people have been subjected to historically. Some of the …

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Decriminalisation of Kurdish singing in Turkey

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

Ahmet Kaya was born in the autumn of 1957 in Malatya. Soon after the 1970 coup in Turkey, Ahmet’s family immigrated to Istanbul in hope of better job opportunities. His interest in singing at an early age was noticed by …

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Social media responses to Barzani and Erdogan’s gathering

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

The President of Southern Kurdistan visited Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast for the first time in nearly two decades, and gave a speech alongside Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on prolonging the peace settlement. As a way of celebrating Kurdish culture and …

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Iraqi penal code puts Kurdish women at a disadvantage

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

The previous article, “Kurdish women imprisoned for infidelity” generated a discussion on what was an alternative option in dealing with cases where women are unfaithful to their partners, and how moral crimes should be dealt with. The problem with this …

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Kurdish women imprisoned for infidelity

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has passed several laws to ensure the Region protects women from violence, and has set up a commission, which will create monitoring boards to measure the effectiveness of laws passed, and their enforceability in protecting women …

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