There is a massacre taking place in the Kurdish region in Turkey. Since the 16th of August, the Turkish state has enforced curfews in 7 Kurdish cities and 17 Kurdish towns where a total of 1.3 million people live. These curfews have stifled the people’s ability to...
By Seyhmus Cakan. Published by Reuters, 22 December 2015. Turkish tanks on Tuesday pounded Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in Cizre, a southeastern town at the heart of a military operation that the army said has killed 127 Kurdish militants in a week....
Military tanks roaming in the streets of Diyarbakır and Şırnak Published by Kurdish Question, 22 December 2015 Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) recently published a note on imposed curfews in predominantly Kurdish districts since August 2015. According to...
Riot police use water cannons and plastic bullets to disperse demonstrators during a protest in Istanbul, Turkey, December 20, 2015. REUTERS/Osman Orsal Published by NRT, 22 December 2015 ISTANBUL – Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is dividing...
For the past year, foreign coverage of Turkey has been focused on spectacular events: elections, terrorist acts, shooting down of Russian planes, and other geopolitical gambles. Throughout this period, however, a quiet revolution had been taking place in the Kurdish...
Turkish forces have been carrying out raids against the PKK since late July. Photo: Anadolu Agency. Published by Rudaw, 21 December 2015 By Polla Garmiany MAINZ, Germany – Politicians in Germany, home to a large Kurdish diaspora, condemned a Turkish military...
