Why Are The Imitation Rolex Sky-Dweller Watches So Clever? The Sky-Dweller is the most sophisticated and up-to-date modern Rolex collection in the current collection. People who love it think it’s the perfect Rolex watch, and people who hate it …
Posted in Kurdistan, Turkey | Comments Off on Why Are The Imitation Rolex Sky-Dweller Watches So Clever?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 …
Posted in Free speech, Political Prisoners, Protests, Terror, Turkey, Violence, Youth | Tagged Kurds, Peace, Terror, Turkey | Comments Off on In Turkey, a Child is a TerroristTwo Kurdish teenagers have been arrested by Turkish authorities in Derik district of Mardin on alleged membership of a terrorist organisation. The minors, aged 16 and 17 were detained for participating in a demonstration in solidarity with the autonomous Kurdish …
Posted in Censorship, Turkey | Comments Off on Two Kurdish minors arrested by Turkish authorities for protestingThis 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, …
Posted in Discrimination, European Union, Free speech, Journalists, Political Prisoners, Terror, Torture, Turkey | Tagged ISIS, Islamic State, Kurds, Rights, Syria, Terror, Turkey | Comments Off on A false Messiah: Turkey’s negative role in the Middle EastOn Thursday, reports spread on social media that activist Kader Ortakaya had been shot by the Turkish army when she was forming part of a human chain by the Suruç-Kobanê border. The 28-year-old sociologist had been taking part in shows …
Posted in Activism, Protests, Turkey, Violence | Comments Off on Kurdish Activist Killed By Turkish Army: “Every Revolution Begins With A Small Spark”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 …
Posted in Call to Actions, Kurdistan, Protests, Syria, Terror, Turkey | Comments Off on Pictures: Worldwide Protests In Solidarity With KobaneToday 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 …
Posted in Call to Actions, Campaigns, Discrimination, Executions, Extrajudicial Punishment, Human Rights Watch, Protests, Terror, Torture, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Saturday Mothers Come Together For The 500th WeekThe fierce battle between the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) and the Kurdish military forces (YPG, YPJ) for Kobanê has now entered its fourth week. Kobanê is one of three cantons in the Kurdish region of Rojava (in Northern Syria) …
Posted in Call to Actions, Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey | Comments Off on UN Envoy to Syria Appeals to Turkey: Allow Kurds to Defend Kobanê