An Australian journalist, an American researcher and an Egyptian interpreter were arrested in El-Mahalla El-Kubra city, north Cairo on 11 Feb 2012. Austin G Mackell is an Australian freelance journalist with a special interest in the Middle East was arrested …
Posted in Bad news, Current Events, Egypt, Petitions | Tagged Egypt | Leave a commentWar is shallow. War cheats humanity. And war never won us any gains. With over 7 billion hearts beating we, the world, has enough issues concerning poverty, hunger, education and human rights. Yet, we selfishly ignore these grave realities and …
Posted in War | Tagged Anti-war, peace, World Peace | Leave a comment“They came to take my son into custody, but he was not home. So they took me instead.” Although this incident happened in 1995, Hayat Altinkaynak remembers it as if it were yesterday, for it was the last time she …
Posted in Awareness, Bad news, Civil Rights, Current Events, Human Rights, Kurdistan, Kurds, Politics, Racism, Turkey, War | Leave a commentBy Pia Sigmund and translated by Shilan Saidi. Despite linguistic differences the Kurds share stories and history together. The stories were told and knew of no borders; the stories braved the high mountains and artificial lines on the map. Stories …
Posted in Foreign Affairs, History, Kurdistan, Kurds | Tagged History, Kurdistan, Kurds | 1 CommentFew people truly believe that states conduct their foreign and domestic affairs based on the ideals they pretend to espouse. For example, as the United States preaches about how lovely freedom and democracy are and how important they are to …
Posted in Assholes, Awareness, Civil Rights, Foreign Affairs, Kurdistan, Kurds, Palestine, Turkey | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, Palestine, Turkey | 5 CommentsBy Pia Sigmund Translated to English by Shilan Saidi Do you know the history of the Kurdish people? Here you can get a crash course! In April 2011 I visited the Kurdish region of Turkey. Here I met two spectacular …
Posted in Civil Rights, Foreign Affairs, History, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | 5 CommentsOnce upon a time, there was a strange town where everyone agreed to punish those who had dirty houses. A family just arrived at the town without having any knowledge of the rules and mores. At night, when someone came …
Posted in Current Events, Iraq, Kurdistan | Tagged Iraq, kirkuk | 1 CommentA friend asked how activists keep going when so many people engage in corruption, stealing, lying, cheating, and harming others. Here in Palestine, there are plenty of people who do these things and they are both Israelis and Palestinians. Occasionally …
Posted in Activism, Ethics, Israel, Palestine, Palestine/Israel, Regional Issues | Tagged Gaza, Palestine | 1 CommentIt’s tragic when some people gain from a human rights violation to further a political agenda, but it happens every day. And not just here. This is actually common practice for the governments of the USA and Israel, and elsewhere …
Posted in Awareness, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Islamophobia, Israel, Media, Politics, Saudi Arabia | Tagged Iran, Palestine, Saudi Arabia | 4 CommentsContrary 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 …
Posted in Kurdistan, Kurds, News and Politics, Terrorism, Turkey, USA, War | Tagged Kurdistan, Kurds, PKK, Turkey | 2 Comments