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 MothersKahraman Kaya, a 17-year-old Kurdish boy who was attacked by a fascist group in Istanbul and was taken into intensive care since the incident, lost his life today. Last Thursday, 10 Kurdish students went outside the school to come together …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Turkey, Violence, Women | 4 CommentsHuman Rights Watch has released a video that calls attention to the state killings and disappearances of Kurdish civilians in the 1990s committed by Turkey. It highlights the importance for immediate action to be taken in regard to the torture, …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Executions, Human Rights Watch, Torture, Trials, Turkey | 1 CommentTo be discriminated against is not a good feeling. It hurts. Especially if you experience it in a modern and democratic country like Denmark. My family and I came to Denmark ten years ago as political refugees. After ten years …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Iran | 3 CommentsTensions have been high in the western Turkish province of Afyon after some two thousand angry nationalists stormed a Kurdish neighborhood on Saturday (December 29). Members of the mob were carrying Turkish flags and chanting, “death to Kurds!” and “Afyon …
Posted in BDP, Discrimination, Displacements, Turkey, Violence | 2 CommentsThe 7.2 earthquake in the Kurdish city of Van, in eastern Turkey has left 600,000 people affected and left homeless. The total death toll has risen to 471 and 1,650 people injured. The response to aid the victims have been …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Kurdistan, Reports, Syria, Turkey, Urgent | Comments Off on Devastating Earthquake Leaves Kurds Short of ShelterFour dead civilians. 250 refugees who have left behind destroyed villages and livestock. And the constant threat of further chaos as innocent civilians try to continue about their lives. Residents in Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan are paying the high cost …
Posted in Displacements, Iraq, Kurdistan, Turkey, Violence | Comments Off on The growing human cost of Turkey’s war against the KurdsI was intrigued to find that many people did not know what the Kurdish question implied. The Kurdish question is a term widely used in reference to the fact that Kurdish people do not have a homeland. Kurdistan is divided …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey | 2 Comments