Category: Discrimination
Posted on March 8, 2021 by Naila Bozo
It was evening we barely escaped. Like the rain falling we could not stop. We were a train of tears as we were walking there like a winding trail of smoke a village climbing a mountain. We were wet, were …
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Executions,
Kurdistan,
Political Prisoners,
Turkey,
Women |
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Kurdish rights,
Women's day |
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Posted on January 13, 2020 by Naila Bozo
Zozan Yasar, a 29-year-old Kurdish journalist residing in the UK, has been charged by Turkey with disseminating terrorist propaganda. The Turkish Prosecution Services have raised charges against Ms. Yasar, alleging that she has been doing propaganda on behalf of the …
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Discrimination,
Free speech,
Journalists,
Language,
Suppression,
Turkey,
Women |
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Free Speech,
Journalism,
Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
Kurds,
Turkey |
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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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Activism,
Censorship,
Culture,
Discrimination,
Free speech,
Syria |
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Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
Syria |
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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Censorship,
Discrimination,
Displacements,
European Union,
Executions,
Terror,
Turkey |
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EU,
Kurds,
PKK,
Refugees,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Posted on February 8, 2016 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
We bring a letter sent to Danish-Kurdish politician Serdal Benli from Kurdish journalist Asya Tekin who for the past two months has been in the Kurdish city of Cizre besieged by Turkish armed forces that has caused the deaths of …
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Call to Actions,
Discrimination,
Displacements,
Journalists,
Terror,
Turkey,
Violence |
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Cizre,
Kurdistan,
Kurds,
Massacre,
Turkey |
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Posted on January 7, 2016 by Naila Bozo
Three Kurdish rights campaigners affiliated with the pro-minority and pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) were on Monday night killed in Silopi, a district in the Şirnak Province in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) when Turkish armed forces who have laid siege …
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Activism,
Call to Actions,
Discrimination,
Displacements,
Executions,
Free speech,
Journalists,
Kurdistan,
Media,
Protests,
Terror,
Torture,
Turkey,
Urgent,
Violence,
Women |
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Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
PKK,
Turkey,
Violence,
women |
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Posted on November 8, 2015 by Naila Bozo
On November 1st, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained its majority in Turkey’s parliament which will secure the continuation of the single-party government that has been ruling Turkey the past 13 years. The votes were much to the dismay …
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Discrimination,
Syria,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Freedom,
ISIS,
Kurdish rights,
Kurds,
PKK,
Syria,
Turkey |
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Posted on February 1, 2015 by Naila Bozo
The resilience of the Kurdish people in the face of decades upon decades of oppression has awed many people around the world yet elicited no sufficient, if any, pressure from foreign governments. Living in what is described as an “invisible …
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Culture,
Discrimination,
Displacements,
Suppression,
Syria |
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Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
Rojava,
Syria |
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