Category: Terror
Posted on December 27, 2014 by Naila Bozo
Three years ago, a U.S. Predator drone spotted movement on Turkey’s border with Iraq. As part of a close collaboration between the U.S. and Turkey with the task of closely monitoring the Kurdish armed fighters of PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party), …
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Turkey,
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Kurds,
NSA,
PKK,
Roboski,
Snowden,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 14, 2014 by Naila Bozo
First a picture of a boy. Then a black flood overlaid with meter upon meter of red, yellow and green fabric, moving in waves on the shoulders of those beneath it. Finally pale hands, dark hands, wrinkled, callused, steady hands …
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Political Prisoners,
Protests,
Terror,
Turkey,
Violence,
Youth |
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Kurds,
Peace,
Terror,
Turkey |
Comments Off on In Turkey, a Child is a Terrorist
Posted on November 29, 2014 by Naila Bozo
This article is cross-posted from New Internationalist It has been called ‘the secret war’, ‘the unknown war’ and ‘a war inside a war’; all names for a battle that began when the Islamic State (IS) launched its attack on Kobanê, …
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Discrimination,
European Union,
Free speech,
Journalists,
Political Prisoners,
Terror,
Torture,
Turkey |
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ISIS,
Islamic State,
Kurds,
Rights,
Syria,
Terror,
Turkey |
Comments Off on A false Messiah: Turkey’s negative role in the Middle East
Posted on November 1, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Today, Kurds and non-Kurds alike took to the streets all over the world to show their solidarity with the ongoing Kurdish fighters who are defending the city of Kobane against Daesh (IS) attacks that have been going on for at …
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Syria,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Posted on October 25, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Today marks the 500th week that the Saturday Mothers have gathered in a public square in Istanbul to demand justice for their family members who went missing at the hand of the Turkish state. The Saturday Mothers are women of …
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Campaigns,
Discrimination,
Executions,
Extrajudicial Punishment,
Human Rights Watch,
Protests,
Terror,
Torture,
Trials,
Turkey |
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Posted on August 22, 2014 by Asli Sena Kücükyildiz
In his last speech he held as the head of AKP last week, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed: “The only country that opened its doors to the Yezidis is Turkey, we have accepted 2 thousand Yezidis and are sending help to …
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Displacements,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Turkey,
Yezidi |
Comments Off on Yezidi refugees without passports denied access to Turkey
Posted on August 10, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
The disastrous situation in Kurdish cities in Iraq and northern Iraq continues after The Islamic State (IS) a week ago took control of cities in the area. Up to 150,000 Yezidi Kurds are still trapped in the mountains and they …
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Discrimination,
Genocide,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Terror,
United Nations,
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Iraq,
IS,
Kurd,
Kurdistan,
Yezidi |
Comments Off on Interview with Zerin Khalaf, a Yezidi Kurd
Posted on August 3, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Militant fighters from the Islamic State (IS) have on Sunday attacked the Yezidi village Siba Sheikh Khidir and surrounding villages, writes Êzîdî Press. Kurdish peshmerge units and armed Yezidi residents joined forces to resist IS advancing into territory under Kurdish …
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Iraq,
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United Nations,
Violence |
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Iraq,
ISIS,
Kurdistan,
Kurds |
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