Category: European Union

A Terrorist Lives in Turkey

Posted on 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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A false Messiah: Turkey’s negative role in the Middle East

Posted on by Naila Bozo

This article is cross-posted from New Internationalist It has been called ‘the secret war’, ‘the unknown war’ and ‘a war inside a war’; all names for a battle that began when the Islamic State (IS) launched its attack on Kobanê, …

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Interview with ROJ TV director: ROJ TV is facing an international conspiracy

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

In January 2012 the City Court in Denmark ruled that the Kurdish TV-station ROJ TV from February 7, 2008 to February 10, 2010 had acted as a mouthpiece for PKK, a Kurdish rebel group fighting for Kurdish rights in Turkey. …

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Open letter to PM Erdoğan

Posted on by Evin Cheikosman

To: Recep Tayipp Erdoğan, Prime Minister, Turkey Re: Kurds should be granted an autonomous Kurdish state in southeast Turkey Honorable Prime Minister Erdoğan, as you are aware, the long-standing Kurdish struggle for autonomy has remained a constant issue in Turkish …

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Turkey lifts ban on some Kurdish candidates, results remain to be seen

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

Turkey’s High Election Board on Monday the 18th banned 12 Kurdish politicians from running for the national election set in June. The 12 politicians are among the dozens of independent candidates running which the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) …

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Anfal and Halabja: The Kurdish Genocide in Iraq

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

The operation was called “Anfal Campaign;” Anfal means “Spoils of war” in Arabic. This was a genocidal campaign that was followed by a series of systematic attacks against the Kurdish population and their means of livelihood – villages, agriculture, infrastructures, …

Posted in Arabic, Discrimination, European Union, Genocide, Iran, Iraq, Reports, Syria, Turkey, United Nations, WMD | 12 Comments

European MPs are denied access to ‘landmark’ Kurdish trials in Turkey

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Reuters Ibon Villelabeitia reports on Turkey’s refusal to allow European MPs to attend the trial of Kurdish defandants in what some say are landmark cases regarding the Kurdish question in Turkey: Euro MPs say they banned from Kurdish trial (Reuters) …

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Rights organizations criticise closure of pro-Kurdish DTP in Turkey

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Pro-Kurdish DTP Closed down by Constitutional Court Ankara, Istanbul – BÄ°A News Center – The Constitutional Court ruled for the closure of pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party and imposed a political ban on 37 of its members. Co-chairs Türk and TuÄŸluk …

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