Last night’s episode of Arab Idol brought more than flashy dresses and big voices to the stage. As the number of contestants dwindles down and each singer can taste victory, one Kurdish woman by the name of Perwas Hussein wowed …
Posted in Culture, Discrimination, Iraq, Language, Media | 4 CommentsIn 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. …
Posted in Censorship, Culture, European Union, Free speech, Journalists, Kurdish Human Rights Project, Media, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Interview with ROJ TV director: ROJ TV is facing an international conspiracyFor a long time after the Syrian uprising began almost two years ago, West Kurdistan (the Kurdish northern parts of Syria, also called Rojava) remained free of fights between the regime and the Free Syrian Army. This has since changed …
Posted in Call to Actions, Culture, Discrimination, Media, Protests, Syria, Turkey, Uncategorized | 1 CommentA young Turkish man once asked me why Kurds resort to violence instead of peaceful dialogue to solve the Kurdish question in Turkey. I told him: ”You imprison our politicians and do not give them a chance to speak. You …
Posted in Discrimination, Iraq, Kurdistan, Media, Turkey | 5 CommentsThe number of political prisoners in Turkey is increasing on a daily basis. Despite Turkey being criticised for its crackdowns on mostly Kurdish but also Turkish journalists, lawyers, politicians and activists, there hasn’t been sufficient pressure on Turkey to end …
Posted in Activism, BDP, Censorship, Free speech, Hunger Strikes, Journalists, Media, Political Prisoners, Trials, Turkey | 1 Comment“Sovereignty does not allow any leader or any regime to repress its own people or kill innocent civilians. A regime pointing guns to its own people can have no sovereignty or legitimacy.” This is an example of a statement that …
Posted in BDP, Free speech, Media, Turkey | 1 CommentI was in high school when the American occupation of Iraq began. I remember the months of dramatic media reports and passionate debates that preceded the invasion, and I remember how physically upset I would get at imagining the cost …
Posted in Culture, Discrimination, Media | 2 CommentsThe Peace in Kurdistan Campaign held on September 18th a public meeting in London about the KCK trials in Turkey and had invited a number of speakers who had observed the hearings during the summer. The people arrested in the …
Posted in BDP, Free speech, Media, Political Prisoners, Turkey | Comments Off on KCK trials in Turkey: “Justice will not be served!”