Category: Free speech
Posted on June 17, 2021 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Today at 11 AM local time, a female party member by the name of Deniz Poyraz was killed in HDP’s (People’s Democratic Party) Izmir Provincial Building, local media reports. The assailant also tried to set the HDP building on fire. …
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Alliance for Kurdish Rights,
European Union,
HDP,
Kurdish rights,
Turkey |
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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 |
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Posted on September 29, 2016 by Naila Bozo
He looked like my father, the grey-haired, tanned Kurdish mayor of a little district made up of only 120,000 people in southeastern Turkey. To me, most Kurdish men who have fathered children look alike. They are stern. They are sometimes …
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Displacements,
Free speech,
Human Rights Watch,
Journalists,
Political Prisoners,
Protests,
Suppression,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Freedom,
Guerrilla,
Kurdish rights,
Kurds,
PKK,
Turkey,
War |
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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 30, 2015 by Naila Bozo
His voice was one of reconciliation and promotion of a peaceful solution to the decades long struggle between the Turkish state and the armed Kurdish resistance movement, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). But on Saturday the voice of Mr. Tahir …
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Posted on January 6, 2015 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
A Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink has been arrested by Turkish authorities on Tuesday morning. She is widely known to have covered Kurdish-related incidents in the country. She tweeted from her personal account, “Terrorism police just search my house, team of …
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Journalists,
Turkey |
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Geerdink,
Journalist,
Kurds,
PKK,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 27, 2014 by Naila Bozo
Three years ago, a U.S. Predator drone spotted movement on Turkey’s border with Iraq. As part of a close collaboration between the U.S. and Turkey with the task of closely monitoring the Kurdish armed fighters of PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party), …
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Activism,
Free speech,
Terror,
Turkey,
Youth |
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Kurds,
NSA,
PKK,
Roboski,
Snowden,
Turkey |
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