Turkey: Conspiracy Trial Should Probe Military’s Role

(London, October 17, 2008) – The prosecution of an alleged ultranationalist conspiracy aimed at the overthrow of Turkey’s democratic government should investigate whether current members of the military, intelligence services and state bureaucracy were...

Turkey’s military rejects criticism over PKK attacks

BALIKESIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey’s powerful generals rejected on Wednesday any blame for the deaths of 17 soldiers in a raid by Kurdish rebels, as rare public criticism of the army mounted following a series of attacks.The armed forces, one the...

THE OBSTACLES TO USE KURDISH LANGUAGE IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE

EditorialThe European society has widely ignored the suffering of Kurdish people in Turkey in the 20th century. Whereas civil rights and peace developed after World War II in Western Europe, millions of women and men were deprived of their basic human rights in the...

To the Attention of Press and Public “DERSIM ’38 CONFERANCE”

It’s the 70th anniversary of the Dersim Genocide. Although 70 years have passed since the genocide by the Turkish Government in Dersim in 1937-38, this massacre has never been forgotten nor will it be forgotten as the culprits have not been brought out into...

Female fighters: We won’t stand for male dominance

QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq (CNN) — The women line the mountainside, locked hand in hand in their green battle fatigues, and begin dancing. It’s a victory dance, they say, that is routine after raids across the border on Turkish troops."We want a natural...
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