News

An introduction
Poetry has always been the main pillar of Kurdish literature. By tracing the history of Kurdish poetry through its manifold themes and forms of expression and through its various periods of expansion and stagnation one also gets an interesting picture of the role and conditions of literature in an oppressed nation.

Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan who supported the statement of Democratic Society Party (DTP) Diyarbakir city chairman Hilmi Aydogdu "Attacks on Kirkuk are the same as attacks on Diyarbakir and vice versa" has been condemned to 1 year and 6 months prison sentence for "inciting people to hatred and hostility". The sentence was then reduced to 1 year and 3 months due to good conduct.

Il était prétendument recherché par la justice turque pour complicité dans le meurtre il y a trente ans d'Abdi Ipekçi, rédacteur en chef libéral progressiste du quotidien turc Milliyet.

ANKARA – Democratic Society Party ,or DTP, leader Ahmet Türk's Kurdish speech in Parliament on Tuesday has enraged the military. Spokesman for the military, Brig. Gen. Metin Gürak, indirectly asks the judiciary to take action, arguing that prosecuting lawbreakers is 'natural'

BBC News, Istanbul
A Turkish prosecutor has ordered the digging up of several sites where it is believed the bodies of Kurds killed in the 1990s may have been dumped.

Human rights monitors say Iranian authorities continue to detain and harass men and women of Iran's ethnic Kurdish minority. According to the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, an independent human rights group, more than 100 ethnic Kurdish literary, cultural, and civil activists from Kermanshah and Ilam have petitioned Iranian authorities for the release of Mehdi Hamidi and Abbass Jalilian, from detention.

Ahmet Türk, chef du Parti pour une société démocratique (DTP), la principale formation pro-kurde de Turquie, a défié ouvertement la loi en prononçant mardi un discours en kurde au Parlement turc, avant que la chaîne publique retransmettant ses propos ne coupe brusquement ses émissions. Il s'adresssait au groupe parlementaire de son parti à l'occasion de la Journée internationale de la langue maternelle de l'UNESCO.

New York Times,
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/world/europe/25turkey.html?ref=europe>
February 25, 2009

Quand on en examine les objectifs politiques et communautaires de l'UE, on se rend mieux compte qu'il est important que les Kurdes soient présents dans son avenir.