Thirty Kurdish students have been arrested in association with being a member of an illegal organisation and organising activities on behalf of an illegal organisation. The students are not part of any organisation, but in the past year hundreds of …
Posted in Trials, Turkey, Youth | 1 CommentBaran Nayır and Ali Deniz Kılıç attended a Pro-Kurdish rally on the 6th of December 2009 organised by BDP in Istanbul. They were arrested, and accused of having six Molotov cocktails in their possession. The fingerprint results on the Molotov …
Posted in Censorship, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Two University students in custody since 2009 for attending pro-Kurdish rallyOnce upon a time someone booed at me, I looked incredulously at my heckler but then I had an epiphany and the epiphany was this: To live is to be booed at. A Tale of Two Worlds The booing and …
Posted in Free speech, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Thank you for booingOn July 14, eight children in the city of Urfa, Turkey decided to engage in one of the most common forms of protest in order to carry their demands to the Turkish prison administration. Having gone through a hunger strike …
Posted in Campaigns, Discrimination, Political Prisoners, Turkey, Youth | 1 CommentUPDATE: New videos added at the end of the post. Despite attempts to pacify Kurdish protests by granting citizenship to most of Syria’s stateless Kurds, protesters have come out in several Kurdish towns yesterday (April 8). The peaceful protesters made …
Posted in Activism, Free speech, Syria, Videos, Youth | 1 CommentLast week, human rights organizations in Iran reported about the death of a Kurdish youth after he was arrested and tortured by the Kamyaran police. The same week, a Syrian human rights organization reported about the death of a Kurdish …
Posted in Extrajudicial Punishment, Iran, Political Prisoners, Syria, Torture, Youth | Comments Off on Two Kurdish Prisoners Die of Torture in Iran and SyriaA 14-year-old girl, Basoz Jabar Agha, was killed Sunday after heavy bombardments by the Iranian military. Iran has been bombing the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for at least 12 consecutive days under the pretext of fighting Kurdish rebels belonging to …
Posted in Displacements, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Violence, Youth | Comments Off on Child is killed and dozens of families flee Iranian attacks on Iraqi KurdistanA Kurdish child was killed and five others were injured in the Özalp district in Van near a Turkish military base. Initial reports explained that the children were playing near ammunition and other materials when the explosion occured. However, an …
Posted in Turkey, Violence, Youth | Comments Off on Kurdish Child killed in explosion near Turkish base