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 …
Posted in Culture, Discrimination, Displacements, Suppression, Syria | Tagged Kurdish rights, Kurdistan, Rojava, Syria | Comments Off on From Damascus Street to KurdistanRecently, my friend and fellow Kurdish rights activist Firat Jacob Tas came home from a trip to Kobanê in Rojava (northern Syria) that has been the battleground for intense fighting between Kurdish armed forces YPG/YPJ and the Islamic State (IS) …
Posted in Syria, Turkey, Violence | Tagged Kurdish, Rojava, Syria, Turkey, War, YPG | 3 CommentsThis 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 EastI wonder if we should collect donations, buy some thousand Armani Privé suits from the Spring/Summer 2014 collection, dress up the Kurdish fighters in Syria, instagram it and hashtag it #VogueArmy. Then maybe we will catch the attention of the …
Posted in Syria, United Nations | Tagged Kurds, Rojava, Syria, UN | 2 CommentsExcerpt from today’s Evening Bulletin: My first timepiece would have been a replica TAG Heuer Link, but it had an extremely various appear than the others new 2017 models. The replica TAG Heuer Link was usually meant to become a …
Posted in Syria | Tagged Human Rights, Kurdish rights, Kurds, Syria | Comments Off on TAG Heuer Link replica Watch For