Tag Archives: Turkey
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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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 |
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Kurds,
NSA,
PKK,
Roboski,
Snowden,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 14, 2014 by Naila Bozo
First 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 …
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Free speech,
Political Prisoners,
Protests,
Terror,
Turkey,
Violence,
Youth |
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Kurds,
Peace,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Posted on November 29, 2014 by Naila Bozo
This 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, …
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Discrimination,
European Union,
Free speech,
Journalists,
Political Prisoners,
Terror,
Torture,
Turkey |
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ISIS,
Islamic State,
Kurds,
Rights,
Syria,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Posted on September 16, 2014 by Naila Bozo
When 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 …
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Culture,
Discrimination,
Kurdistan,
Language,
Protests,
Turkey,
Violence,
Youth |
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Kurdistan,
Kurds,
Mother tongue,
Protest,
Turkey,
Violence |
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Posted on August 22, 2014 by Asli Sena Kücükyildiz
In his last speech he held as the head of AKP last week, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed: “The only country that opened its doors to the Yezidis is Turkey, we have accepted 2 thousand Yezidis and are sending help to …
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Displacements,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Turkey,
Yezidi |
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Posted on December 4, 2008 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Leyla Zana is an outspoken critic of Turkey’s evident discrimination against the Kurdish minority. She has been fighting for Kurdish human rights for many years and was previously imprisoned for 10 years, a harsh price for her peaceful activism. The …
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Activism,
Discrimination,
Leyla Zana,
Turkey,
Women |
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Leyla Zana,
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