Category: Turkey

Who Is The Terrorist?

Posted on by Xende Biradosti

Contrary to what the Turkish government would like you to believe, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, was not born out of thirst for baby’s blood. No, the Kurdish guerrillas in the mountains of Turkey are not all callous sociopaths …

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Dear Those Who Celebrate the Censorship of RojTV: An Open Letter

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Dear those who celebrate the censorship of RojTV, When an entire people are systematically oppressed and marginalized, small actions to make their story heard can have dramatic consequences. Similarly, small actions to silence their voice can have dramatic and tragic …

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ROJ TV in the Land of the Snow Queen

Posted on by Naila Bozo

Once upon a time there was a troll, Hans Christian Andersen wrote. This troll was the worst of the trolls, he was the Devil and the Devil had a mirror. It was a wicked invention; everything good and beautiful became …

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AKP’s silent revolution has a blemish

Posted on by Abdulla Hawez (Kurdistan)

While we hear about the achievements of Turkey’s AKP government especially in the Middle East after the Arab Spring, AKP’s government internally is facing a real challenge after the further detonation recently in ties with the minority Kurds that are …

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Roboski waits

Posted on by The Zagrosian (Kurdistan)

Last year concluded just a few days ago and probably with a lot of joyous smiles on shining faces, champagne-bottles waiting to be emptied, fireworks in multitudes and some traditional new year promises each and one of us silently utter …

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What’s really going on in Iraq?

Posted on by Abdulla Hawez (Kurdistan)

The recent tension in Baghdad between Nouri  Al-Maliki’s Shiite Iraqi prime minister with both Iraqi president’s deputy Tariq Al-Hashimi, and his deputy for service affairs, Salih Mutlaq, which both are Sunnis is highly connected with the regional tension between Iran …

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Wave of Condemnation as Turkey Arrests Yet More Journalists

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Istanbul, Turkey- Dawn on Tuesday brought an unfortunate wake up call to many Kurds and especially to journalists as a wave of arrests across Turkey picked up 40 people, most of whom are journalists. The arrests came under the premise …

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Round Up: Latest Violations Against Kurdish Rights

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Below are updates of the recent coverage from the Alliance for Kurdish Rights detailing abuse against the Kurdish people: Mass Arrests of Kurdish Intellectuals in Istanbul: My father-in-law was one of fifty people arrested on Friday morning, and while the …

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TIME Nominates Erdogan and his Crimes for Person of the Year

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

For TIME magazine’s world-renowned recognition for most influential person of the year, the international publication has selected a variety of people from all walks of life and asked their readers to vote to help them make their choice. Among the …

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Help Save Assyrian Heritage: The Ziyaret Tepe Archeological Project

Posted on by Assyrian Rights

The site of Ziyaret Tepe is an ancient Assyrian provincial capital on the river Tigris in southeastern Turkey, 60 km east of Diyarbakir. As an archaeological site it is of exceptional importance, as it is a provincial capital of the …

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