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BOOK. ‘Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdoğan’s Turkey’
Black Rose Books recently marked the release of ‘Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdoğan’s Turkey’
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Los Desaparecidos – The Disappeared Turkish-Style
What must it be like (Mr. President), when the State forces its way into your life, your space, your home, seizes your children, takes them away from you and locks you up?
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Turkish Presidential Candidate Demirtaş Speaks – From Prison
17th June: Selahattin Demirtaş, jailed presidential candidate for the Kurdish-backed Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), made his presidential campaign speech on the state broadcaster TRT
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Erdoğan Prepping New War Pitched as an Anti-PKK Operation
Turkey’s military and Prime Minister have announced a new illegal ground campaign said to be an ‘anti-PKK operation’ in Iraq
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Con il sostegno del Sud Africa, curdi e palestinesi uniti contro l’oppressione
Tra le molteplici condanne espresse in questi giorni per le brutali uccisioni operate dall’esercito israeliano, acquista particolare rilevanza quella del Comitato Esecutivo del PKK
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MORE BAD NEWS FROM AFRIN?
Turkey and its jihadist allies entered the Kurdish city on March 18, 2018, after 58 days bombing the region’s civilian population with the latest in NATO technology
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OTTOMAN TURKEY: WHERE TO, FROM AFRIN?
After the casualties inflicted by this military adventure it appears there is to be no peace nor safety for the civilian population in northern Syria
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L’Europa condanna la Turchia per la prigione di Imrali e i giornalisti arrestati
Rapporto del Cpt del Consiglio d’Europa: i quattro detenuti nell’isola, tra cui Ocalan, isolati dal resto del mondo
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Riunito a Parigi il Tribunale dei Popoli per i crimini della Turchia contro i curdi
Parigi. Due giorni di udienze sui crimini commessi nel sud-est dell’Anatolia tra il 2015 e il 2016: omicidi e stragi, sparizioni forzate e il sabotaggio del processo di pace con il Pkk
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Human Rights. TURKEY ON ‘TRIAL’ Finally
the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal will meet on 15 & 16 March to examine the crimes committed by the Turkish Republic against the Kurdish people, both on its own (and Kurdish) territory and abroad
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Kurdistan Communities Union calls for a boycott of Turkish goods and tourism
The umbrella organization of the Kurdish freedom movement called for a boycott of Turkish goods and tourism in Turkey to deal a blow against the economy of Turkey, which is the engine of the war against the Kurds.
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TURKEY: AKP WAR AGAINST PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION
We learn that HDP Deputies Ahmet Yıldırım and İbrahim Ayhan have also lost their parliamentary status after being convicted in criminal court
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TURKEY: “HARROWING” REPRESSION OF KURDISH CULTURE & LANGUAGE
This 21 February 2018 – On Mother Language Day, PEN International “wishes to highlight the sustained repression of Kurdish culture and language in Turkey
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WAR ON AFRIN: THE THIRD WEEK
We are now well over three weeks into the Turkish military assault on Afrin – “home to the last of the untouched Yazidi communities (some 25,000 people)…also…home to many of the internally displaced refugees in Syria
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AFRIN: Interview with Sozdar Avesta of The KCK
KCK (The Kurdistan Communities Union – in Kurdish: Koma Civakên Kurdistan) is a Kurdish political organization committed to implementing Abdullah Öcalan’s ideology of Democratic Confederalism
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WAR ON AFRIN: THE SECOND WEEK
We are now two weeks into the Turkish military – supported by the paramilitary groups of the Free Syrian Army (“al-Qaida & al-Nusra terrorists” ANF) – assault on Afrin
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KURDISTAN: The “Dirty War” The Price of Wanting Freedom?
there are death squads looking to disband Turkish and Kurdish opposition members
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PKK: “They Will Drown in the Blood they Spill”
A Press Statement from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in response to the heavily-armed and illegal Turkish invasion of the Afrin Canton in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK. The Assassination of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez
On a day this week, January 9th, 2013, Sakine Cansiz (Sara), Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Paris Representative Fidan Doğan (Rojbin), and Leyla Şaylemez were shot dead in their Paris office
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TURKEY: KURDISH DEPUTIES JAILED
HDP Deputy İdris Baluken was sentenced by the Diyarbakir 8th High Criminal Court to 16 years and eight months in jail
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