The International Senior Lawyers Project, a global organization that “provides the pro bono services of highly skilled and experience lawyers to promote human rights”, released a press statement early this week urging the European Commissioner of Human Rights, to investigate …
Posted in Free speech, Political Prisoners, Terror, Turkey | 1 CommentAn independent presidential candidate was attacked in Downtown Erbil on Friday in Southern Kurdistan. Dr. Kamal Said Qadir tweeted, @kamalsaidqadir “A peaceful gathering will be held today at 5 pm in [the] center of Erbil-Kurdistan region to discuss the imposed …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Free speech, Iraq, Kurdistan | 2 CommentsOn January 12th, 2005 the Turkish Embassy in Denmark filed a complaint against the Kurdish TV-channel Roj TV to the Danish Radio and Television Board for being a mouthpiece for the Kurdish rebel group, PKK. The board rejected the embassy’s …
Posted in Censorship, Free speech, Media, Trials, Turkey | 5 CommentsKurdish Journalist Hamdiye Çiftçi has been in trouble ever since she covered the police violence that 14-year-old Cüneyt Ertuş was exposed to in 2008. Having been detained for 2 years within the scope of KCK operations, Çiftçi has been sentenced …
Posted in Censorship, Free speech, Media, Prisoners of Conscience, Turkey | 1 Comment8 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 governmentHanım Onur, the former deputy mayor of Cizre, Şırnak province in the Kurdish region in Turkey, was arrested on the 16th of September 2011 during the KCK operations where Turkish authorities targeted the Kurdish civilian opposition. She spent 18 months in …
Posted in BDP, Free speech, Political Prisoners, Trials, Turkey | 2 CommentsHaving been prosecuted and detained at the airport due to his Kurdish songs, Hozan Comert has been deported on grounds that he is not a citizen of Turkey and his entering Turkey despite the investigation launched against him is against …
Posted in Free speech, Turkey | 1 CommentKurdish 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