Monthly Archives: March 2015
Posted on March 29, 2015 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
On a morning in 2012, the Turkish police knocked on the door of Mehmet Öztekin’s house. He was then taken away by the police who would not provide any explanation or evidence for the charges that gave them authority to …
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Health,
Political Prisoners,
Turkey |
Tagged
Ill prisoner,
Kurd,
Turkey |
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Posted on March 16, 2015 by Naila Bozo
I wanted to write a moving piece. I wanted to write in commemoration of the Halabja Massacre that claimed the lives of more than 5,000 Kurdish civilians in a poison gas attack in 1988 carried out on the orders of Saddam Hussein, …
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Displacements,
Genocide,
Iraq,
Kurdistan |
Tagged
Genocide,
Halabja,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Massacre |
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Posted on March 8, 2015 by Naila Bozo
Today, people are celebrating International Women’s Day. To some it is a day to celebrate women like Mother’s Day but to others it is a day to mark women’s past, present and future struggle to achieve empowerment and equality with …
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Activism,
Iran,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Syria,
Women |
Tagged
International Women's Day,
Iraq,
KRG,
Kurdish women,
Kurdistan,
women,
Yezidi |
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