Category: Suppression

Kurds in Syria Granted Citizenship: What Now?

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

For over 50 years, over 300,000 Kurds in Syria were labeled foreigners in a 1963-census that was carried out in an arbitrary manner which restricted the “foreigner” Kurds acquiring employment, education, health, property, or even marriage. The government has banned …

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“Without me, there will be civil war, there will be chaos:” The last card of unpopular dictators

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

Hosni Mubarak, the ousted president of Egypt who ruled for 30 years, is said to have accumulated $70 billion from corruption and Egypt has been under Emergency Law as long. Under the law, the police power was extended, constitutional rights …

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Civil Disobedience is responded with assault in Turkey

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

The Kurds of Turkey have started a “sit-in” protest against the Turkish government’s lack of interest and seriousness in solving the Kurdish issue. The Kurds, who make up 20-25 percent of Turkey’s population, demand to have public education in their …

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Waves of arrests and abductions of Kurds in Syria

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

The Syrian government recently has intensified its arrests and abductions of the Kurdish activists who speak out against the inequality and discrimination the Kurdish people face in Syria. In 2010, dozens of Kurdish political activists were sentenced to prison on …

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19th Century mentality in 21st Century: Kurdish language still banned in Turkey

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

Kurdish language has been banned in Turkey since the creation of its modern borders in 1923. The Kurds were not allowed to speak their mother tongue, not even in their own homes, in the streets, in any social gatherings, let …

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Mass executions continue in Iran!

Posted on by Minhaj Akreyi

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on February 4th said: “We have urged Iran, time and again, to halt executions. I am very dismayed that instead of heeding our calls, the Iranian authorities appear to have …

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Silencing Everyone in the Middle East out of Hate for One

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

“No friends but the mountains,” is the old Kurdish proverb that seems unable to be shaken off in Kurdish circles around the world. Perhaps it is so because there is more than what meets the eye, or the ears, when …

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Execution rate in Iran alarms UN; Execution of Kurds systematic

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed concern over what the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is calling an ‘execution binge’ taking place in Iran. A number of reports have indicated that since the start of …

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