Category: Suppression
Posted on January 13, 2020 by Naila Bozo
Zozan Yasar, a 29-year-old Kurdish journalist residing in the UK, has been charged by Turkey with disseminating terrorist propaganda. The Turkish Prosecution Services have raised charges against Ms. Yasar, alleging that she has been doing propaganda on behalf of the …
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Posted on September 9, 2018 by Laszlo Bugyi
On January 21st, Anadolu Agency, the state-run Turkish news agency, ran a story with the headline “Muslims pray in Mecca for Turkey’s victory in Afrin” implying a positive moral foundation of Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch” with the goal of securing …
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Posted on September 29, 2016 by Naila Bozo
He looked like my father, the grey-haired, tanned Kurdish mayor of a little district made up of only 120,000 people in southeastern Turkey. To me, most Kurdish men who have fathered children look alike. They are stern. They are sometimes …
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Human Rights Watch,
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Political Prisoners,
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Terror,
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Turkey,
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Posted on March 2, 2016 by Naila Bozo
I recognized the importance of Syria in my life through my separation from it. The hours before going to the airport made me feel weak. The departure …
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Syria,
Turkey |
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Assad,
Rojava,
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Posted on February 1, 2015 by Naila Bozo
The resilience of the Kurdish people in the face of decades upon decades of oppression has awed many people around the world yet elicited no sufficient, if any, pressure from foreign governments. Living in what is described as an “invisible …
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Syria |
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Kurdistan,
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Posted on September 8, 2014 by Naila Bozo
Photo by Bezav Mahmod (www.bezavmahmod.com) I am sitting on a couch in a small dorm room, flicking through the pages of the latest issue of Vogue Magazine. My friend is pouring me Kurdish tea that he just made in …
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Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
LGBT |
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Posted on June 8, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Two Kurdish protesters have died of gunshot wounds sustained during fierce clashes with Turkish soldiers in the country’s southeast on Saturday, AFP writes. Three people, including two soldiers, were hospitalised after the demonstrators opened fire, hurled stones and fireworks at …
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Turkey,
Violence,
Youth |
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Posted on November 24, 2013 by Asli Kücükyildiz and Naila Bozo
United Nation’s Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment states in its first principle that “All persons under any form of detention …
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