Category: Reports

When Cars Become Weapons: Plainclothes Police Officers Run Over and Kill 17 Year Old Kurdish Boy

Posted on by Uzay Bulut

State violence in Turkey knows no boundaries, which has claimed the life of another Kurdish child today. While a road was blocked during a demonstration in the Kurdish town of Cizre in Şırnak on 23 April, two police officers opened …

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18 August 1992: When Şirnak Was Turned Into a Dead City

Posted on by Uzay Bulut

Yesterday was the 21st anniversary of the massacre that took place in the Kurdish city of Şırnak in Turkey. In an attempt to wipe Şırnak off the map on 18 August 1992, Mete Sayar, Turkish brigade commander, attacked the city, …

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Turkish PM Erdoğan: “We don’t have a plan for providing education in Kurdish!”

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Amid the discussions on to what extent the “package” that the government is to announce to resolve the Kurdish issue will make way for democratization, PM Erdoğan said that they do not have a plan for regulating education in the …

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Massacre in Aleppo Continues

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

The barricades of the Al-Qaeda-linked groups and Free Syrian Army (FSA) massacred scores of Kurdish youths, and kidnapped hundreds of people, mostly Kurdish women and children, Etkin News Agency (ETHA) reported. The world is still silent on the massacre. The …

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The Kurds and The Amazigh: Two People, One Common Struggle

Posted on by Tasbeeh Herwees

In 2011, in the Eastern city of Benghazi, whispers of dissent gave way to riotous revolution; Libyans took to the streets in unprecedented numbers, chanting anti-regime slogans, carrying signs and waving flags signaling their defiance. Two flags that were heretofore …

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Silivri Prison Punishes the Kurdish Hunger Strikers as Turkey embarks on a ‘Peace Process’

Posted on by Jeff Gibbs

Last night on the streets of Kadıköy we ran into an old friend that we haven’t seen in years. She asked how my wife’s father was doing. Oh, as fine as can be expected, we answered. And ‘How long has …

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Report: FSA brigades attack Serê Kaniyê

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

A two week long battle has been raging in Rojava, Syria for control of the Kurdish city of Serê Kaniyê, right on the Turkish-Syrian border. Two Islamist brigades, Jabhat al-Nusra and Ghuraba al-Sham, affiliated with the Free Syrian Army have attempted …

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On Peace Talks and Assassinations: The Imrali Process in Turkey

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

With the new year, the Turkish state has begun new negotiations with the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, the PKK, including finally ending the long isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. There has never been so much outspoken support by Turks for negotiations …

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