Tag Archives: Turkey
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 |
Comments Off on Three Kurdish Politicians Killed by Turkish Armed Forces
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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Journalists,
Terror,
Turkey,
Urgent,
Violence |
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Curfew,
Killing,
Kurdistan,
Turkey |
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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 |
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Posted on June 30, 2015 by Naila Bozo
“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 …
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Syria,
Turkey |
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Freedom,
Kurds,
Syria,
Turkey |
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Posted on March 29, 2015 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
On a morning in 2012, the Turkish police knocked on the door of Mehmet Öztekin’s house. He was then taken away by the police who would not provide any explanation or evidence for the charges that gave them authority to …
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Health,
Political Prisoners,
Turkey |
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Ill prisoner,
Kurd,
Turkey |
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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 |
Comments Off on Another Kurdish Youth Shot by Turkish Police
Posted on January 12, 2015 by Naila Bozo
Recently, 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) …
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Syria,
Turkey,
Violence |
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Kurdish,
Rojava,
Syria,
Turkey,
War,
YPG |
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