Tomorrow marks the 1 year anniversary of the Turkish military operation that resulted in a massacre in Roboskî (Uludere) which killed 34 civilian Kurds. To this day no one has been tried for this crime nor has there been a …
Posted in Discrimination, Human Rights Watch, Reports, Turkey | Comments Off on Interview with Ferhat Encü: “We must raise our voice,” never forgetting RoboskiIt is common knowledge among Kurdish communities that Turkey’s shining reputation as a moderate Middle Eastern democracy is false, and that Turkey’s suppression of its Kurdish population is accompanied by censorship, unfair detainment, and brutality. The United States also has …
Posted in Reports, Turkey | 4 CommentsEvery year, Human Rights Watch publishes a world report (HRW World Report) which accounts for human rights conditions all over the globe in the previous year. Their investigation is often done “in close partnership with domestic human right activists” as …
Posted in Human Rights Watch, Reports | 1 CommentOne of the essential pillar of democracy is freedom of press and if this pillar is missing in a democratic country, then that country can no longer be considered democratic. True, Turkey hold free elections and it has competing political …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Free speech, Iran, Journalists, Kurdistan, Media, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Reports, Suppression, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Complete List of 104 Journalists in Turkish JailsIn an annual census of imprisoned journalists conducted by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Iran and Turkey were listed amongst the countries with the most number of arrests. Other countries noted as the world’s worst for journalists included China, …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Free speech, Iran, Journalists, Political Prisoners, Reports, Turkey | Comments Off on Iran and Turkey maintain statuses as worst countries for journalistsThe 7.2 earthquake in the Kurdish city of Van, in eastern Turkey has left 600,000 people affected and left homeless. The total death toll has risen to 471 and 1,650 people injured. The response to aid the victims have been …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Kurdistan, Reports, Syria, Turkey, Urgent | Comments Off on Devastating Earthquake Leaves Kurds Short of ShelterIn the fight between Iran and Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) has killed two villagers two days ago; has killed tens of villagers in the last few months; and has forced more than 800 Iraqi Kurds to flee …
Posted in Displacements, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Protests, Reports | Comments Off on Iranian shelling kills civilians in KurdistanExhausted, enraged and hopeless Turkish youth seemed to be, shouldered with the Kurds in Istanbul demonstration on Thursday calling for the government to end the decades-old Kurdish problem that was for a long time ignored, and denied. “We are here …
Posted in Discrimination, Kurdistan, Protests, Reports, Suppression, Turkey | Comments Off on Turkish youth protesting in support of the Kurds