Tag Archives: PKK
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 April 3, 2016 by Naila Bozo
Since summer last year Turkish armed forces have been laying siege on neighborhoods and entire districts in Kurdish towns and cities under the guise of state-imposed, around-the-clock curfews, killing more than 250 civilians and displacing 350,000 people in the Kurdish …
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Censorship,
Discrimination,
Displacements,
European Union,
Executions,
Terror,
Turkey |
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EU,
Kurds,
PKK,
Refugees,
Terror,
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 |
Tagged
Freedom,
ISIS,
Kurdish rights,
Kurds,
PKK,
Syria,
Turkey |
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Posted on July 21, 2015 by Naila Bozo
A few months back, a friend asked me if I could help a photographer translate a few interviews from his trip to Syria and Iraq. I agreed to do it without asking who the photographer was or about the content …
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Uncategorized |
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Joey L,
PKK,
Rojava,
Yezidi,
YPG,
YPJ |
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Posted on January 6, 2015 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
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 …
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Free speech,
Journalists,
Turkey |
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Geerdink,
Journalist,
Kurds,
PKK,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 27, 2014 by Naila Bozo
Three 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), …
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Activism,
Free speech,
Terror,
Turkey,
Youth |
Tagged
Kurds,
NSA,
PKK,
Roboski,
Snowden,
Turkey |
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