“I am saying this to the whole world: We will never allow the establishment of a state on our southern border in the north of Syria.” Such were the words of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, president of Turkey, to guests during …
Posted in Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Freedom, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Comments Off on Who Gets To Allow A Kurdish State In Syria?A Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink has been arrested by Turkish authorities on Tuesday morning. She is widely known to have covered Kurdish-related incidents in the country. She tweeted from her personal account, “Terrorism police just search my house, team of …
Posted in Free speech, Journalists, Turkey | Tagged Geerdink, Journalist, Kurds, PKK, Turkey | Comments Off on Dutch journalist arrested in TurkeyThree years ago, a U.S. Predator drone spotted movement on Turkey’s border with Iraq. As part of a close collaboration between the U.S. and Turkey with the task of closely monitoring the Kurdish armed fighters of PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party), …
Posted in Activism, Free speech, Terror, Turkey, Youth | Tagged Kurds, NSA, PKK, Roboski, Snowden, Turkey | Comments Off on Roboskî Massacre and Snowden: A new year for Kurdish activistsFirst a picture of a boy. Then a black flood overlaid with meter upon meter of red, yellow and green fabric, moving in waves on the shoulders of those beneath it. Finally pale hands, dark hands, wrinkled, callused, steady hands …
Posted in Free speech, Political Prisoners, Protests, Terror, Turkey, Violence, Youth | Tagged Kurds, Peace, Terror, Turkey | Comments Off on In Turkey, a Child is a TerroristThis 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, …
Posted in Discrimination, European Union, Free speech, Journalists, Political Prisoners, Terror, Torture, Turkey | Tagged ISIS, Islamic State, Kurds, Rights, Syria, Terror, Turkey | Comments Off on A false Messiah: Turkey’s negative role in the Middle EastWhen Turkey’s ruling party AKP announced its “democratic package” that among other things included reforms meant to address Kurdish calls for greater rights, some people expressed hope in this promise while others, especially Kurds, remained skeptical. AKP and its supporters …
Posted in Culture, Discrimination, Kurdistan, Language, Protests, Turkey, Violence, Youth | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, Mother tongue, Protest, Turkey, Violence | Comments Off on Turkish Police Attack Kurds Protesting Closure of SchoolWe 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 …
Posted in Call to Actions, Displacements, Genocide, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, United Nations, Urgent | Tagged Iraq, ISIS, Kurds, UN, Yezidis | 1 CommentMilitant 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 …
Posted in Displacements, Iraq, Kurdistan, Terror, United Nations, Violence | Tagged Iraq, ISIS, Kurdistan, Kurds | 1 Comment