Category: Turkey
Posted on February 6, 2018 by Kenan Meral
In the most authentic sense, the establishment of Rojava will reject the chaos of terror, pursue the enfranchisement disempowered classes of all varieties, and primarily export the culture of democracy. With the keen will power of strong women and men, …
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Activism,
Kurdistan,
Syria,
Turkey |
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Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
Kurds,
Syria,
Turkey,
War |
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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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Displacements,
Free speech,
Human Rights Watch,
Journalists,
Political Prisoners,
Protests,
Suppression,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Freedom,
Guerrilla,
Kurdish rights,
Kurds,
PKK,
Turkey,
War |
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Posted on April 3, 2016 by Naila Bozo
Since summer last year Turkish armed forces have been laying siege on neighborhoods and entire districts in Kurdish towns and cities under the guise of state-imposed, around-the-clock curfews, killing more than 250 civilians and displacing 350,000 people in the Kurdish …
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Censorship,
Discrimination,
Displacements,
European Union,
Executions,
Terror,
Turkey |
Tagged
EU,
Kurds,
PKK,
Refugees,
Terror,
Turkey |
Comments Off on A Terrorist Lives in Turkey
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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Kurdistan,
Suppression,
Syria,
Turkey |
Tagged
Assad,
Rojava,
Syria,
YPG |
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Posted on February 8, 2016 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
We bring a letter sent to Danish-Kurdish politician Serdal Benli from Kurdish journalist Asya Tekin who for the past two months has been in the Kurdish city of Cizre besieged by Turkish armed forces that has caused the deaths of …
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Call to Actions,
Discrimination,
Displacements,
Journalists,
Terror,
Turkey,
Violence |
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Cizre,
Kurdistan,
Kurds,
Massacre,
Turkey |
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Posted on January 9, 2016 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Mr. Ibrahim Parlak, a 52-year-old Kurdish restaurant owner from Michigan, USA, faces possible deportation to Turkey where he was imprisoned and tortured before fleeing to the United States in the early 1990s. Mr. Parlak was active in the Kurdish rights …
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Activism,
Call to Actions,
Torture,
Turkey |
Tagged
Kurdish rights,
torture,
Turkey |
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Posted on January 7, 2016 by Naila Bozo
Three Kurdish rights campaigners affiliated with the pro-minority and pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) were on Monday night killed in Silopi, a district in the Şirnak Province in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) when Turkish armed forces who have laid siege …
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Activism,
Call to Actions,
Discrimination,
Displacements,
Executions,
Free speech,
Journalists,
Kurdistan,
Media,
Protests,
Terror,
Torture,
Turkey,
Urgent,
Violence,
Women |
Tagged
Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
PKK,
Turkey,
Violence,
women |
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Posted on December 29, 2015 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Serdal Benli, a Kurdish-Danish politician, received the following mail from journalist Asya Tekin who is currently in the Kurdish town of Cizre in Şirnak province. Right now I am in the town of Cizre in Şirnak province. For the past …
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Journalists,
Terror,
Turkey,
Urgent,
Violence |
Tagged
Curfew,
Killing,
Kurdistan,
Turkey |
Comments Off on Journalist from besieged city of Cizre: Help us!
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