In August 2011, Samir Nashar, the President of the Secretariat General of the Damascus Declaration Alliance, told KurdWatch, “We accuse the Kurdish parties of not effectively participating in the Syrian revolution… It seems that these parties continue to bet on …
Posted in Discrimination, Syria, Turkey | Comments Off on Doubly Disenfranchised: Kurds in Syria’s “Arab Spring”8 years ago today, a Kurdish activist went to the central square in the Kurdish city of Mehabad to join other students in commemoration of the 1999 student protests in Tehran that were violently repressed by the Iranian government. The name …
Posted in Activism, Discrimination, Free speech, Iran, Protests | Comments Off on In Memory of Shawaneh Ghaderi: Killed 8 years ago by Iranian governmentOn December 28th, 2011, F-16 warplanes launched an attack on villagers in Roboski village of the Kurdish district of Şırnak in Turkey. On their way back to their village, a group of people, who were transporting cheap fuel into Turkey …
Posted in BDP, Discrimination, Terror, Trials, Turkey | 3 CommentsAccording to HRANA, two Kurds died after setting themselves on fire just 2 weeks ago in front of the main administrative office in the Kurdistan Province. The two men, both followers of the religion Yârsân, protested Iranian prison authorities’ treatment …
Posted in Discrimination, Iran | Comments Off on Two Kurds die of self-immolation in IranIn 2011, in the Eastern city of Benghazi, whispers of dissent gave way to riotous revolution; Libyans took to the streets in unprecedented numbers, chanting anti-regime slogans, carrying signs and waving flags signaling their defiance. Two flags that were heretofore …
Posted in Culture, Discrimination, General, Reports | 2 CommentsAzad Tokmak will start a freedom campaign for his mother, Fatma Tokmak, a political prisoner suffering from serious heart diseases in Bakırköy Prison, to get his mother released and continue her treatment outside prison, Zeynep Kuray from Birgün Daily reported. …
Posted in Call to Actions, Campaigns, Discrimination, Health, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Azad Tokmak: “I want my mother alive, not dead!”The Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan said on the occasion of the international human rights day on 10 December 2012 the following: Protecting and developing human rights, democracy and principles of the state of law have been some of our …
Posted in Call to Actions, Discrimination, Health, Political Prisoners, Torture, Turkey, Women | Comments Off on 79-Year-Old Kurdish Mother: “I don’t want to die in this prison!”Kurdish mothers did not celebrate Mother’s Day this year either. Some of them have children who are guerillas in the mountains, some of them are behind bars, and some have lost their lives in conflicts. Özgür Gündem Newspaper in Turkey …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Free speech, Mass Graves, Political Prisoners, Torture, Turkey, Women | Comments Off on No Mother’s Day for Kurdish Mothers