Tag Archives: Kurdistan
Posted on January 13, 2020 by Naila Bozo
Zozan Yasar, a 29-year-old Kurdish journalist residing in the UK, has been charged by Turkey with disseminating terrorist propaganda. The Turkish Prosecution Services have raised charges against Ms. Yasar, alleging that she has been doing propaganda on behalf of the …
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Turkey,
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Free Speech,
Journalism,
Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
Kurds,
Turkey |
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Posted on June 9, 2019 by Naila Bozo
My summers in Syria were hazy but not just due to the heat and the dust swirled up by cars moving fast through the streets. The people of Qamişlo (Al-Kamishli), a city …
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Censorship,
Culture,
Discrimination,
Free speech,
Syria |
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Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan,
Syria |
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Posted on February 6, 2018 by Kenan Meral
In the most authentic sense, the establishment of Rojava will reject the chaos of terror, pursue the enfranchisement disempowered classes of all varieties, and primarily export the culture of democracy. With the keen will power of strong women and men, …
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Syria,
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Kurdistan,
Kurds,
Syria,
Turkey,
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Posted on February 8, 2016 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
We bring a letter sent to Danish-Kurdish politician Serdal Benli from Kurdish journalist Asya Tekin who for the past two months has been in the Kurdish city of Cizre besieged by Turkish armed forces that has caused the deaths of …
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Call to Actions,
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Displacements,
Journalists,
Terror,
Turkey,
Violence |
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Cizre,
Kurdistan,
Kurds,
Massacre,
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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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 December 29, 2015 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Serdal Benli, a Kurdish-Danish politician, received the following mail from journalist Asya Tekin who is currently in the Kurdish town of Cizre in Şirnak province. Right now I am in the town of Cizre in Şirnak province. For the past …
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Terror,
Turkey,
Urgent,
Violence |
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Curfew,
Killing,
Kurdistan,
Turkey |
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Posted on May 29, 2015 by Naila Bozo
One day they are terrorists, the next day they are femme fatales fighting Islamic State (Daesh). The discussion of whether Kurdish female fighters are the first, the second or something third is a …
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Women,
Youth |
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Helly Luv,
IS,
Kurdish female fighters,
Kurdistan |
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Posted on March 16, 2015 by Naila Bozo
I wanted to write a moving piece. I wanted to write in commemoration of the Halabja Massacre that claimed the lives of more than 5,000 Kurdish civilians in a poison gas attack in 1988 carried out on the orders of Saddam Hussein, …
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Genocide,
Iraq,
Kurdistan |
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Genocide,
Halabja,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
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