Reader Sherko Ibrahim had sent in this comic concerning Kurds in Turkey:
Speaking to a congress of his Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) local branch in the eastern province of Hakkari late Sunday evening, Erdo?an said: “What have we said? We have said, ‘One nation, one flag, one motherland and one state.’ They are opposed to this. Those who oppose this should leave,” in words that were unsettling for the Kurdish population.
This comic is inspired by the Kurdish youth who have been harrassed and charged in Turkey simply for singing a song in the Kurdish language.
You can read more about the Kurdish case at our upcoming site, which is currently under massive construction, or by reading posts by Kurdish authors Goran and Niroj.
Turkish version of the comic:
Bu karikatür Kürtçe ?ark? söyledikleri için taraflar?na dava aç?lan ve taciz edilen Kürt gençlerin durumlar?ndan esinlenilerek çizilmi?tir.
entence below the comic: Kürt sorunu hakk?nda daha fazla bilgi edinmek için Kürt yazarlar?m?z Goran ve Niroj’un yaz?lar?n? okuyabilirsiniz.
(Thanks to Ozlem for volunteering her translation.)
Opposition to the Kurdish minority continues, even in the form of censorship of the written word. Ray Bradbury, in the original novel “Fahrenheit 451″, presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic, and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The central character, Guy Montag, is employed as a “fireman” (which, in this future, means “book burner”). The number “451″ refers to the temperature (in Fahrenheit) at which a book or paper autoignites. A movie version of the novel was released in 1966, and it is anticipated that a second version will begin filming in 2008.
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