7 children were injured when a mine detonated in the hands of one of the children. They had found the mine in a former military outpost in a village in the northwestern city of Marivan, Kurdistan province (East Kurdistan/Iran), Kurdpress …
Posted in Iran, Youth | Comments Off on 7 children injured by mine blast in East KurdistanLast week, on the first day of scheduled classes in Turkey, thousands of Kurdish schoolchildren did not go to school. In fact, students in primary and secondary school boycotted the first week entirely to demand their right to education in …
Posted in BDP, Culture, Discrimination, Protests, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Reclaiming the Mother Tongue: BDP’s School BoycottIn January 2011, I got lost in Qamişlo, the unofficial capital of Rojava (West Kurdistan/northern Syria). I wandered around the streets that all looked alike: broken pavements, small houses side by side with flat roofs, bigger and three-storey high buildings …
Posted in Discrimination, Syria, Women, Youth | 1 CommentThe Saturday Mothers of Turkey gathered in the Galatasaray Square in Istanbul this week again instead of visiting their children at their graveyards. Meeting at the Galatasaray Square for the 437th time this year with the pictures of their beloved …
Posted in BDP, Campaigns, Protests, Trials, Turkey, Women, Youth | Comments Off on Saturday Mothers of Turkey: “Human Life or Political Power?”Three of the families who fled to the desert to survive the massacre committed by Al-Nusra and FSA militants in the Tel Aran and Tel Hasil districts of Aleppo arrived in Afrin. Out of the 3 families that consisted of …
Posted in Discrimination, Executions, Syria, Violence, Women, Youth | 5 CommentsSuat Bahadır’s age has been increased in a report from the Istanbul Institute of Forensic Medicine (ATK) from 15 to 22 years and he has been given aggravated life imprisonment twice on charges of “killing someone deliberately due to the …
Posted in Discrimination, Political Prisoners, Trials, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Kurdish Boy Sentenced to Life in Prison Twice Despite Contradictory Age ReportsLawyer Reyhan Yalçındağ called for standing in solidarity with C.A. who has been sexually assaulted by his teacher at a dormitory in the Kurdish district of Mîdyad. The family members of C.A. have also been threatened to withdraw the lawsuit …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Boarding Schools in Turkey: Sexual Violence Against Kurdish ChildrenThree Kurdish female activists, Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, were horribly executed in the heart of Paris on January 9, 2013. This cold-blooded attack was committed by professionals – the Turkish “Gladio”, which is also known as the …
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