Tag Archives: Kurdish rights
Posted on September 29, 2016 by Naila Bozo
He looked like my father, the grey-haired, tanned Kurdish mayor of a little district made up of only 120,000 people in southeastern Turkey. To me, most Kurdish men who have fathered children look alike. They are stern. They are sometimes …
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Displacements,
Free speech,
Human Rights Watch,
Journalists,
Political Prisoners,
Protests,
Suppression,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Freedom,
Guerrilla,
Kurdish rights,
Kurds,
PKK,
Turkey,
War |
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Posted on January 9, 2016 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Mr. Ibrahim Parlak, a 52-year-old Kurdish restaurant owner from Michigan, USA, faces possible deportation to Turkey where he was imprisoned and tortured before fleeing to the United States in the early 1990s. Mr. Parlak was active in the Kurdish rights …
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Activism,
Call to Actions,
Torture,
Turkey |
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Kurdish rights,
torture,
Turkey |
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Posted on January 7, 2016 by Naila Bozo
Three Kurdish rights campaigners affiliated with the pro-minority and pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) were on Monday night killed in Silopi, a district in the Şirnak Province in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) when Turkish armed forces who have laid siege …
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Activism,
Call to Actions,
Discrimination,
Displacements,
Executions,
Free speech,
Journalists,
Kurdistan,
Media,
Protests,
Terror,
Torture,
Turkey,
Urgent,
Violence,
Women |
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Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
PKK,
Turkey,
Violence,
women |
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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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Discrimination,
Syria,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Freedom,
ISIS,
Kurdish rights,
Kurds,
PKK,
Syria,
Turkey |
Comments Off on Questioning the legitimacy of the Kurdish struggle
Posted on February 1, 2015 by Naila Bozo
The resilience of the Kurdish people in the face of decades upon decades of oppression has awed many people around the world yet elicited no sufficient, if any, pressure from foreign governments. Living in what is described as an “invisible …
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Culture,
Discrimination,
Displacements,
Suppression,
Syria |
Tagged
Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
Rojava,
Syria |
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Posted on January 13, 2015 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
During protests to commemorate the execution-like killings of three Kurdish activists in Paris on January 9, 2013, clashes erupted in the Cizre district of Şırnak in North Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) which led to Turkish police shooting and injuring yet another …
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Kurdistan,
Turkey,
Youth |
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Kurdish rights,
Police,
Protests,
Turkey |
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Posted on September 8, 2014 by Naila Bozo
Photo by Bezav Mahmod (www.bezavmahmod.com) I am sitting on a couch in a small dorm room, flicking through the pages of the latest issue of Vogue Magazine. My friend is pouring me Kurdish tea that he just made in …
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Culture,
Discrimination,
Suppression |
Tagged
Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
LGBT |
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
In the largest Kurdish city, Diyarbakir (or Amed, in Kurdish), reports say that over 1 million people gathered to listen to the music, dance, and hear speeches from the local Kurdish politicians. Pictures from the event showed Turkish jets and …
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Terror,
Turkey,
Violence |
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Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
Kurds |
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