Category: Terror
Posted on March 16, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Today marks the 26th anniversary of the Halabja Genocide that claimed the lives of more than 5,000 Kurdish civilians in a poison gas attack carried out by the state of Iraq on the orders of then president Saddam Hussein. The …
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Posted on January 9, 2014 by Naila Bozo
A massacre against thirtyfour men and boys has been deemed an error. The error lasted six and a half hours. At six pm, the Turkish military assessed that drone images were …
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Discrimination,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 29, 2013 by Naila Bozo
The Kurdish people were still in mourning, commemorating the one-year-anniversary of the Roboskî Massacre that claimed the lives of 34 civilian Kurdish boys and men. Then news came in the second week of January that three Kurdish women had been …
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Discrimination,
Executions,
Free speech,
Iran,
Journalists,
Kurdistan,
Political Prisoners,
Syria,
Terror,
Torture,
Trials,
Turkey |
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Posted on August 14, 2013 by Tasbeeh Herwees
The International Senior Lawyers Project, a global organization that “provides the pro bono services of highly skilled and experience lawyers to promote human rights”, released a press statement early this week urging the European Commissioner of Human Rights, to investigate …
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Free speech,
Political Prisoners,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Posted on July 21, 2013 by Naila Bozo
I live in Denmark. When I see a drone, it does not scare me because it is on TV. It reminds me of Star Wars. The drone is nothing more but a toy, a movie prop. My people live in …
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Terror,
Turkey |
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Posted on June 30, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
A Kurdish man named Baran Toktaş has announced his conscientious objection, saying that “as a Kurdish youth, I refuse to shed the blood of my brothers, and to be on the same side with rapists.” Baran Toktaş has proclaimed his …
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Turkey,
Violence |
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Posted on June 17, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
On December 28th, 2011, F-16 warplanes launched an attack on villagers in Roboski village of the Kurdish district of Şırnak in Turkey. On their way back to their village, a group of people, who were transporting cheap fuel into Turkey …
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BDP,
Discrimination,
Terror,
Trials,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 29, 2011 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
At least 36 Kurdish civilians have been killed by Turkish warplanes overnight, local sources revealed. Şirnak City Council’s Deputy Chair Erşet Ediş has said in a statement, “The bodies were burnt to a crisp. Vehicles cannot go into the area due to …
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