The timing is undeniably meaningful. March kicks of election season in Turkey, and people will vote on the next government in three months. Kurds also celebrate Newruz this month. The March 21 festivities mark the arrival of spring, and the massive number of people...
13 January 2011. Today, Diyarbakir, a city with 1,2 million citizens in south-east Turkey, will be witnessing a mass trial. In this trial, 151 persons are accused of links to the Kurdistan Communities Union, or KCK. The prosecutors claim that the KCK is the urban wing...
Due to bans imposed on these political groups by the Islamic Republic of Iran, they are mostly now officially stationed well within the borders of the neighboring semiautonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, as political refugees hosted by the Kurdistan Regional...
Besikci has been sentenced to more than 100 years’ imprisonment and the corresponding one million Turkish Lira fines for their books. Many of his books are banned in Turkey. For many years, Ismail Besikci the only non-Kurdish person in Turkey to speak loudly and...
This heinous crime not only deprives an individual of his/her most basic human rights, but is also a kind of collective punishment that makes all relatives of the disappeared person suffer endless emotional oscillation between hope and despair while also terrorizing...
