Category: Media
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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Posted on July 29, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Ghader Mohammadzadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner, has been transferred to solitary confinement of a central prison in Urmiye, the Human Rights Activists News Agency reports. The reason for the transfer is unknown. According to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center …
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Posted on June 9, 2014 by Naila Bozo
In 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 …
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Posted on December 18, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
The 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 …
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Posted on December 8, 2013 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Kawa Garmyani, a 32 year-old journalist in Southern Kurdistan’s Kelar town was fatally shot in his own home. Recently, he wrote several critical articles about Kurdish politicians and uncovered incidents of corruption. On the 5th of December, unknown men knocked …
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Posted on November 20, 2013 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
We have spoken about the plight and struggles of Kurdish people for decades. Numerous academic literature has been published, reports announced, and condemnations expressed of the horrific ordeal that many Kurdish people have been subjected to historically. Some of the …
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Posted on July 14, 2013 by Naila Bozo
On 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 …
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Posted on July 13, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Kurdish 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 …
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