Category: Censorship
Posted on June 9, 2019 by Naila Bozo
My summers in Syria were hazy but not just due to the heat and the dust swirled up by cars moving fast through the streets. The people of Qamişlo (Al-Kamishli), a city …
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Comments Off on Who am I? Kurdistan’s Resistance in Art
Posted on April 3, 2016 by Naila Bozo
Since summer last year Turkish armed forces have been laying siege on neighborhoods and entire districts in Kurdish towns and cities under the guise of state-imposed, around-the-clock curfews, killing more than 250 civilians and displacing 350,000 people in the Kurdish …
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European Union,
Executions,
Terror,
Turkey |
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EU,
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Terror,
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Comments Off on A Terrorist Lives in Turkey
Posted on December 9, 2014 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Two Kurdish teenagers have been arrested by Turkish authorities in Derik district of Mardin on alleged membership of a terrorist organisation. The minors, aged 16 and 17 were detained for participating in a demonstration in solidarity with the autonomous Kurdish …
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Posted on June 9, 2014 by Naila Bozo
In July 2013, I penned a piece about the trial of the Kurdish TV-station Roj TV at the Supreme Court in Denmark and its alleged links to PKK. I wrote about the dubious grounds that the final verdict was based …
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Media,
Trials,
Turkey |
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Posted on April 28, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
The Alliance for Kurdish Rights is committed to mobilize public opinion, collect information and disseminate knowledge about human rights abuses against the Kurdish people throughout the Middle East. This also applies to human rights abuses in the Kurdistan Regional Government …
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Comments Off on CPJ: Mountain Of Impunity Looms Over Kurdistan Journalists
Posted on December 29, 2013 by Naila Bozo
The Kurdish people were still in mourning, commemorating the one-year-anniversary of the Roboskî Massacre that claimed the lives of 34 civilian Kurdish boys and men. Then news came in the second week of January that three Kurdish women had been …
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Iran,
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Kurdistan,
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Syria,
Terror,
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Trials,
Turkey |
Comments Off on May 2014 not begin with yet another funeral
Posted on December 18, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued a special report that puts Turkey as the number 1 country in the world with the most jailed journalists for the second …
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Comments Off on Turkey: World’s biggest prison for journalists – again
Posted on December 8, 2013 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Kawa Garmyani, a 32 year-old journalist in Southern Kurdistan’s Kelar town was fatally shot in his own home. Recently, he wrote several critical articles about Kurdish politicians and uncovered incidents of corruption. On the 5th of December, unknown men knocked …
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