Category: BDP
Posted on March 26, 2014 by Asli Sena Kücükyildiz
Yesterday, the 10-year old Mehmet Ezer was shot in the head by the police with a tear-gas canister. The incident took place during a rally for the pro-Kurdish BDP in Silvan, a town of Diyarbakir. After getting the initial treatment …
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Leyla Zana,
Turkey,
Violence,
Youth |
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Posted on February 9, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Ergani – 6 members of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) youth assembly were Friday night detained by undercover police, reports Dicle News Agency. They were arrested after leaving a football match and brought to Ergani District Police Headquarters. …
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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 13, 2013 by Tasbeeh Herwees
Last year, the American news website, Gawker, released internal documents from within an outsourcing firm which employs “content moderators” to screen content posted on Facebook. Gawker obtained the documents from an employee of the firm, Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year old Moroccan …
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Activism,
BDP,
Censorship,
Discrimination,
Free speech,
Turkey |
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Posted on November 2, 2013 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
The mayor of Nusaybin district, Ayse Gokkan has been protesting against the construction of a wall at the Turkish-Syrian border between the two cities of Qamishli and Nusaybin. The wall has been dubbed as a “wall of shame” a phrase …
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Activism,
BDP,
Call to Actions,
Campaigns,
Kurdistan,
Women |
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Posted on September 29, 2013 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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Culture,
Discrimination,
Protests,
Turkey,
Youth |
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Posted on September 9, 2013 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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Trials,
Turkey |
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Posted on August 12, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
The Saturday Mothers of Turkey gathered in the Galatasaray Square in Istanbul this week again instead of visiting their children at their graveyards. Meeting at the Galatasaray Square for the 437th time this year with the pictures of their beloved …
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