A reliable source has informed Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Omar Chapr, a Kurdish political prisoner from North Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey), has been removed from his ward in Orumiye prison and transferred to an unknown location by Iranian security …
Posted in Iran, Political Prisoners, Torture, Turkey | Comments Off on Fate of Kurdish Political Prisoner Unknown“I am saying this to the whole world: We will never allow the establishment of a state on our southern border in the north of Syria.” Such were the words of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, president of Turkey, to guests during …
Posted in Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Freedom, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Comments Off on Who Gets To Allow A Kurdish State In Syria?On a morning in 2012, the Turkish police knocked on the door of Mehmet Öztekin’s house. He was then taken away by the police who would not provide any explanation or evidence for the charges that gave them authority to …
Posted in Health, Political Prisoners, Turkey | Tagged Ill prisoner, Kurd, Turkey | Comments Off on Seriously Ill Prisoner Denied Sufficient Medical Treatment in TurkeyDuring protests to commemorate the execution-like killings of three Kurdish activists in Paris on January 9, 2013, clashes erupted in the Cizre district of Şırnak in North Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) which led to Turkish police shooting and injuring yet another …
Posted in Kurdistan, Turkey, Youth | Tagged Kurdish rights, Police, Protests, Turkey | Comments Off on Another Kurdish Youth Shot by Turkish PoliceRecently, my friend and fellow Kurdish rights activist Firat Jacob Tas came home from a trip to Kobanê in Rojava (northern Syria) that has been the battleground for intense fighting between Kurdish armed forces YPG/YPJ and the Islamic State (IS) …
Posted in Syria, Turkey, Violence | Tagged Kurdish, Rojava, Syria, Turkey, War, YPG | 3 CommentsA Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink has been arrested by Turkish authorities on Tuesday morning. She is widely known to have covered Kurdish-related incidents in the country. She tweeted from her personal account, “Terrorism police just search my house, team of …
Posted in Free speech, Journalists, Turkey | Tagged Geerdink, Journalist, Kurds, PKK, Turkey | Comments Off on Dutch journalist arrested in TurkeyThree 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), …
Posted in Activism, Free speech, Terror, Turkey, Youth | Tagged Kurds, NSA, PKK, Roboski, Snowden, Turkey | Comments Off on Roboskî Massacre and Snowden: A new year for Kurdish activistsThousands of people fled Kobane when Islamic State (IS/formerly ISIS) militants seized control of several areas within the autonomous canton in September 2014. Some of the refugees have taken refuge in Suruc district of Urfa, an estimate of 20,000 children …
Posted in Call to Actions, Campaigns, Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey, Women | Comments Off on Refugee children from Kobane at risk of malnutrition