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Keffiyeh Crime in Turkey
Posted on May 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe Case of Cihan Kırmızıgül Keffiyeh Crime in Turkey by MICHAEL DICKINSON On February 20th 2010 Cihan Kırmızıgül, a junior industrial engineering student of Galatasaray University, was waiting at a... -
‘U.S. drone targeted civilians in Turkey’
Posted on January 9, 2012 | 2 CommentsA U.S. Predator drone had reportedly fired the first bomb in an airstrike that killed 35 Kurdish civilians in southeastern Turkey last month. In its main headline on Sunday, Turkish... -
Conference in Munich Highlighted Assyrian Human Rights Issues
Posted on January 8, 2012 | No CommentsMunich (AINA) — On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of signing an agreement between Germany and Turkey to recruit migrant workers from Turkey (German: Anwerbeabkommen), official celebrations were held... -
Turkey: the ‘progressive’ land of repression
Posted on December 12, 2011 | No CommentsTurkey claims to be a successful democracy, but for thousands of political protesters, it is anything but Ayca Çubukçu guardian.co.uk Riot police and Kurdish demonstrators. Turkish riot police clash with... -
Turkey’s Kurdish question demands brave new moves
Posted on November 19, 2011 | No CommentsTurkey’s Kurdish question demands brave new moves By Kaya Genç November 17, 2011, 6:21 pm ISTANBUL, Turkey: Who could have imagined that one day pedestrians in Istanbul’s most artistic and... -
Turkey’s Kurdish conundrum
Posted on November 10, 2011 | 1 CommentPosted By Mohammed Ayoob Wednesday, November 9, 2011 – 4:52 PM Share Any time spent in Turkey and one cannot help but be taken in by the country’s economic dynamism... -
Crackdown on Kurds tests limits of Turkish democracy
Posted on November 4, 2011 | No CommentsThomas Seibert Nov 4, 2011 ISTANBUL // Opposition parties and intellectuals in Turkey say the arrest of hundreds of people accused of supporting Kurdish militants is part of a political... -
Turkey’s Demands and Kurdistan’s Answers
Posted on October 29, 2011 | No CommentsBy REBWAR KARIM WALI The wave of arrests of Kurds in Turkey as well as violence between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish security forces that began again... -
THE KURDISH TRIBES OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Posted on October 22, 2011 | 1 CommentTHE KURDISH TRIBES OF THE OTTOMANEMPIRE BY MARK SYKES PREFACE THE materials collected in the ensuing pages are the results of about 7,500 miles of riding and innumerable conversations with... -
1915 events were Genocide – Turkish MP
Posted on October 19, 2011 | 1 CommentISTANBUL. – Turkish MP from Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, Altan Tan restated his words recently said in the international scientific conference in Artuklu University in Mardin, Turkey in the... -
Turkey university begins country’s first Kurdish course
Posted on October 18, 2011 | No CommentsA Turkish university has begun teaching the country’s first ever degree course in the Kurdish language. About 20 students have signed up to study Kurdish at Artuklu University in south-eastern... -
TARLABASI, THE HIDDEN ISTANBUL
Posted on October 17, 2011 | 1 CommentText : Fadime Deli Pictures : Guillaume Poli Tarlabasi, Istanbul – July 2011. Kurdistan litterally means “the country of the Kurds” and the effigy of Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK... -
Kurdish flag dispute stirs Iraqi tensions
Posted on October 17, 2011 | 1 CommentBy Aseel Kami BAGHDAD | Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:21pm IST (Reuters) – Kurds protested in an Iraqi city on Sunday against an order to lower Kurdish flags from official... -
Ebullient Turkey ignores critics in Iran and Syria but worries about Kurds
Posted on October 17, 2011 | No CommentsEbullient Turkey ignores critics in Iran and Syria but worries about Kurds Thomas Seibert Oct 12, 2011 ISTANBUL // As it bursts with self-confidence about its growing role in the... -
Assad ‘eyes sectarian, ethnic fight’ in Turkey
Posted on October 15, 2011 | No CommentsGÖKSEL BOZKURT / SERKAN DERMİRTAŞ ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News Selahattin Demirtaş, BDP co-chair, says he warned President Gül and Foreign Minister Davutoğlu against a spillover from Syria Syria is... -
Don’t Kill In My Name!
Posted on October 8, 2011 | No CommentsBy Ayla Albayrak As Turkey falls into an escalating conflict with Kurdish militants, a small group of ordinary Kurds is trying to separate themselves from rebels who are resorting to... -
Erdogan plays Palestinian saviour, but what about the Kurds?
Posted on October 7, 2011 | No CommentsTurkey’s prime minister is championing Abbas’s UN appeal – yet still has to resolve the Kurdish issue back home Simon Tisdall · 21/09/2011 · guardian.co.uk A Kurdish demonstration in Istanbul... -
For Turkey’s Kurdish Protesters, Long Sentences and Little Hope
Posted on October 7, 2011 | 1 CommentJenna Krajeski – Jenna Krajeski is a journalist based in Istanbul. Her previous work has appeared in Al-Masry Al-Youm, The New Yorker, Slate, The World Policy Journal, Bidoun, The San... -
Turkish parliament approves cross-border raids
Posted on October 6, 2011 | No CommentsBy Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert, CNN October 6, 2011 — Updated 0246 GMT (1046 HKT) Kurdish women hold portraits of their missing sons on May 18, 2011 during a... -
Preparing for Peace in Turkey
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe Erdogan government must not let the escalating insurgency distract it from addressing Kurdish civilians’ underlying problems. By HUGH POPE Turkey’s activism throughout the Arab Spring and its showy challenges...
