First a picture of a boy. Then a black flood overlaid with meter upon meter of red, yellow and green fabric, moving in waves on the shoulders of those beneath it. Finally pale hands, dark hands, wrinkled, callused, steady hands …
Posted in Free speech, Political Prisoners, Protests, Terror, Turkey, Violence, Youth | Tagged Kurds, Peace, Terror, Turkey | Comments Off on In Turkey, a Child is a TerroristThis 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, …
Posted in Discrimination, European Union, Free speech, Journalists, Political Prisoners, Terror, Torture, Turkey | Tagged ISIS, Islamic State, Kurds, Rights, Syria, Terror, Turkey | Comments Off on A false Messiah: Turkey’s negative role in the Middle EastIn July 2013, I penned a piece about the trial of the Kurdish TV-station Roj TV at the Supreme Court in Denmark and its alleged links to PKK. I wrote about the dubious grounds that the final verdict was based …
Posted in Censorship, Free speech, Media, Trials, Turkey | 1 CommentThe Alliance for Kurdish Rights is committed to mobilize public opinion, collect information and disseminate knowledge about human rights abuses against the Kurdish people throughout the Middle East. This also applies to human rights abuses in the Kurdistan Regional Government …
Posted in Censorship, Free speech, Journalists, Kurdistan | Comments Off on CPJ: Mountain Of Impunity Looms Over Kurdistan JournalistsTime Magazine is calling on readers to cast their vote for the people they think have changed the world – both for better or worse. Among the selected persons one can find Bashar al-Assad, Pope Francis, Bill Gates, Kim Jong-Un, …
Posted in Free speech, Protests, Turkey | Comments Off on Erdogan Deserves No PraiseImagine a government that serves its people and not itself; a government that strives to implement laws and regulations that provide grounds for the empowerment of freedom, equality and individuality. A government that is always aware that it consists of …
Posted in Free speech, Political Prisoners, Protests, Turkey | Comments Off on The government that sought revenge on its peopleThe Kurdish people were still in mourning, commemorating the one-year-anniversary of the Roboskî Massacre that claimed the lives of 34 civilian Kurdish boys and men. Then news came in the second week of January that three Kurdish women had been …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Executions, Free speech, Iran, Journalists, Kurdistan, Political Prisoners, Syria, Terror, Torture, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on May 2014 not begin with yet another funeralThe Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued a special report that puts Turkey as the number 1 country in the world with the most jailed journalists for the second …
Posted in Censorship, Free speech, Journalists, Media, Political Prisoners, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Turkey: World’s biggest prison for journalists – again