DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, March 30 (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party failed to conquer the Kurdish bastion of Diyarbakir in Sunday’s local polls because they misjudged decades-old grievances by minority Kurds.Jubilant...
Iranian Kurds, violation of human rights in Iran and Kurdish Genocide in 1988 in Iraq where more then 180.000 Kurdish civilian has been killed, will be on focus in the European Parliament. Ararat News -Publishing (ANP), Fiona Lorin / Roni Alasor – 27/3/2009 /...
The Newroz celebration in Istanbul was organised by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and socialist groups. Call for a solution to Kurdish issue Around 300,000 people gathered in Kazliçesme, in the Zeytinburnu district in western Istanbul, ...
With an urgent request for help the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) wrote on Monday to the EU foreign ministers asking for help for a Kurdish human rights activist who is in custody in Syria. Mashal Tamo is faced with lifelong imprisonment with hard...
A successful seminar on this topic was held late last year by the "Forum for Living History"in Sweden in cooperation with the Kurdish Gulan association in Sweden. The seminar also includes a screeningof the movie "All my mothers" which...
SOURCE: IPS Communication Foundation (BIANET), IstanbulA campaign to free Zana has been started by rights activists – among them,writers Bilgesu Erenus, Murathan Mungan, Seyhmus Diken and Ragip Zarakolu,human rights activists Hürriyet Sener, Esber...
