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 …
Posted in Kurdistan, Suppression, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Assad, Rojava, Syria, YPG | Comments Off on Who Owns The Syrian Revolution?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 …
Posted in Call to Actions, Discrimination, Displacements, Journalists, Terror, Turkey, Violence | Tagged Cizre, Kurdistan, Kurds, Massacre, Turkey | Comments Off on A letter from the basement of death in CizreMr. 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 …
Posted in Activism, Call to Actions, Torture, Turkey | Tagged Kurdish rights, torture, Turkey | Comments Off on Kurdish-American Ibrahim Parlak Accused of PKK-affiliation Faces Deportation to TurkeyThree 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 …
Posted in 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 | Comments Off on Three Kurdish Politicians Killed by Turkish Armed ForcesSerdal 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 …
Posted in Journalists, Terror, Turkey, Urgent, Violence | Tagged Curfew, Killing, Kurdistan, Turkey | Comments Off on Journalist from besieged city of Cizre: Help us!His voice was one of reconciliation and promotion of a peaceful solution to the decades long struggle between the Turkish state and the armed Kurdish resistance movement, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). But on Saturday the voice of Mr. Tahir …
Posted in Executions, Free speech, Turkey | Comments Off on We Are All Tahir ElçiOn November 1st, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained its majority in Turkey’s parliament which will secure the continuation of the single-party government that has been ruling Turkey the past 13 years. The votes were much to the dismay …
Posted in Discrimination, Syria, Terror, Turkey | Tagged Freedom, ISIS, Kurdish rights, Kurds, PKK, Syria, Turkey | Comments Off on Questioning the legitimacy of the Kurdish struggleA local governor in Diyarbakir’s Bismil district in North Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) imposed on Sunday a curfew in neighbourhoods Ulutürk, Tekel, Dumlupınar and Fırat, reportedly in order to “ensure the security of the people” and find and detain “terrorists”. The …
Posted in Activism, Protests, Terror, Turkey | Comments Off on Turkey Declares Yet Another Curfew In Kurdish District