Monthly Archives: November 2013
Posted on November 30, 2013 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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Turkey |
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Posted on November 26, 2013 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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Discrimination,
Free speech,
Hunger Strikes,
Kurdistan,
Language,
Political Prisoners,
Protests,
Torture,
Trials,
Turkey,
Youth |
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Posted on November 24, 2013 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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Call to Actions,
Political Prisoners,
Protests,
Suppression,
Torture,
Turkey |
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Posted on November 20, 2013 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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Kurdistan,
Media |
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Posted on November 16, 2013 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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Activism,
Kurdistan,
Language,
Trials,
Turkey |
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Posted on November 16, 2013 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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BDP,
Kurdistan,
Turkey |
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Posted on November 15, 2013 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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Activism,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Women |
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Posted on November 14, 2013 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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Kurdistan,
Violence,
Women |
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