A two week long battle has been raging in Rojava, Syria for control of the Kurdish city of Serê Kaniyê, right on the Turkish-Syrian border. Two Islamist brigades, Jabhat al-Nusra and Ghuraba al-Sham, affiliated with the Free Syrian Army have attempted …
Posted in Reports, Syria, Turkey, Urgent, Violence | Comments Off on Report: FSA brigades attack Serê KaniyêTensions have been high in the western Turkish province of Afyon after some two thousand angry nationalists stormed a Kurdish neighborhood on Saturday (December 29). Members of the mob were carrying Turkish flags and chanting, “death to Kurds!” and “Afyon …
Posted in BDP, Discrimination, Displacements, Turkey, Violence | 2 CommentsOn December 28, 2011 at around 9:30 p.m., a group of 37 villagers from Roboskî were hit by an aerial bombardment by the Turkish air force as they crossed back into Turkey from Iraqi Kurdistan. Thirty-four were killed. Seventeen of them …
Posted in Human Rights Watch, Protests, Turkey, Violence | Comments Off on Remembering Roboskî: What has Turkey learned?Aleppo, Syria: One of the most diverse cities of Syria didn’t see any of the supposed ceasefire that was supposed to be implemented across Syria over Eid al Adha. Aleppo, which hosts a large Kurdish minority and has been the …
Posted in Protests, Syria, Torture, Uncategorized, Violence | Comments Off on Kidnappings and Conflicts: Kurdish Civilians Heavily Affected in SyriaTurkey has dominated mainstream news reports about the Syrian conflict, as Turkish and Syrian forces exchange fire for the second week in a row. The resulting increase in tension has threatened to spill into an all-out war, one that would …
Posted in Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey, Violence | Comments Off on Kurdish Protests in Syria: Playing Politics with Human RightsHalime Erkurt was beaten while in labour. The 27-year old was insulted and cursed by medical staff in Urfa City hospital because she was Kurdish. She says, “They told me that Kurds are bad people and cursed. They were slapping …
Posted in Kurdistan, Turkey, Violence, Women | 2 CommentsSabiha Gökçen holding a bomb before the bombardment operation over Dersim with her Breguet 19. Fato Dersimi was among those who fled Dersim, which is a predominately Kurdish district in Northern Kurdistan. When Turkish troops were killing Kurdish civilians between …
Posted in BDP, Genocide, Turkey, Violence | Comments Off on Turkish state apology to Kurds, 75 years too late.Four dead civilians. 250 refugees who have left behind destroyed villages and livestock. And the constant threat of further chaos as innocent civilians try to continue about their lives. Residents in Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan are paying the high cost …
Posted in Displacements, Iraq, Kurdistan, Turkey, Violence | Comments Off on The growing human cost of Turkey’s war against the Kurds