Tag Archives: ISIS
Posted on November 8, 2015 by Naila Bozo
On November 1st, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained its majority in Turkey’s parliament which will secure the continuation of the single-party government that has been ruling Turkey the past 13 years. The votes were much to the dismay …
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ISIS,
Kurdish rights,
Kurds,
PKK,
Syria,
Turkey |
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Posted on November 29, 2014 by Naila Bozo
This 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, …
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European Union,
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Journalists,
Political Prisoners,
Terror,
Torture,
Turkey |
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Islamic State,
Kurds,
Rights,
Syria,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Posted on September 7, 2014 by Xoncha Nouri
We left Erbil in the morning two weeks ago to meet the Yezidis who had managed to escape ISIS terror, Shoresh Rahem, KRG’s representative in Sweden, another friend and I. The camps in Duhok and Zakho were filled with people …
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Call to Actions,
Displacements,
Genocide,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Syria,
United Nations,
Urgent |
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Iraq,
ISIS,
Kurds,
UN,
Yezidis |
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Posted on August 30, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Terrifying stories about the plight of the people in Kurdistan and Iraq fleeing the terrorist group Islamic State are shaking the world and has forced the international community to take immediate action to relieve their suffering. The United Nations has …
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Displacements,
Health,
Iraq,
Kurdistan |
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Iraq,
ISIS,
Kurdistan,
Yezidi |
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Posted on August 3, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Militant fighters from the Islamic State (IS) have on Sunday attacked the Yezidi village Siba Sheikh Khidir and surrounding villages, writes Êzîdî Press. Kurdish peshmerge units and armed Yezidi residents joined forces to resist IS advancing into territory under Kurdish …
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Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Terror,
United Nations,
Violence |
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Iraq,
ISIS,
Kurdistan,
Kurds |
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