This comic is inspired by the Kurdish youth who have been harrassed and charged in Turkey simply for singing a song in the Kurdish language.
You can read more about the Kurdish case at our upcoming site, which is currently under massive construction, or by reading posts by Kurdish authors Goran and Niroj.
Turkish version of the [...]
The Danish-based television broadcaster, Roj-TV, was recently banned in Germany after officials declared that they believe the station shows support for the conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdish rebels in Turkey. The German Interior Ministry said Roj-TV was serving as a mouthpiece for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or the PKK, which is outlawed [...]
From Bia News Center:
A German citizen child whose father is a political refuge was not allowed to enter Turkey since his name included previously banned W letter, although this law is not in effect any longer. The DTP submits a motion of question.
A German citizen child whose father is a political refugee was not allowed [...]
Recent Announcement by the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP):
KHRP is pleased to announce the publication of issue 13 of its biannual Legal Review, and its latest Trial Observation Report, ‘Persecuting Publishers, Stifling Debate: Freedom of Expression in Turkey’.
KHRP’s Legal Review is the only existing legal journal covering significant legislative and policy developments in the Kurdish [...]
From The National by Thomas Seibert, (Foreign Correspondent):
Turkish Kurdish party threatened
ISTANBUL // As Turkey awaits the outcome of a court case aimed at banning the country’s ruling party, the main pro-Kurdish party has also been fighting for survival before the same court in a case that highlights Turkey’s continued problems to deal with the Kurdish [...]
18 June 08 - Public Statement from Amnesty International:
Turkey: Three children on trial in case over freedom of expression
Tomorrow, 19 June, three boys, aged 15, 15 and 17 at the time that the alleged offence was committed, will go on trial in Diyarbakır in the south east of Turkey accused of violating Article 7/2 of [...]
Report by Owen Bowcott from the Guardian UK:
Families seek redress for Turkish incursions
Raids on Kurds blamed for deaths and damage in Iraq
British lawyers take cases to human rights court
British lawyers are taking Turkey to the European court of human rights in pursuit of compensation for deaths and damage allegedly inflicted by repeated bombardments of northern [...]
IFEX - News from the international freedom of expression community
ALERT - TURKEY 6 June 2008
Three members of children’s choir face charges of “making propaganda for a terrorist organisation” after singing Kurdish song in U.S. music festival
(Antenna-TR/IFEX) - Three children, members of the Diyarbakir Yenisehir Council Children’s Choir [Koma Dengê Zarokên Amedê - The Children’s [...]
Kurdish Media reports on recent statements from members of Iraqi Parliament:
London (KurdishMedia.com) 05 June 2008: As the result of the Turkish and Iranian bombardments for the last two years, 450 southern Kurdish families have been displaced, two MP’s of the Kurdistan bloc in the Iraqi Assembly stated in a press conference in Baghdad. It was [...]
From the Turkish Daily News:
Tens of thousands of people gathered yesterday in Kadıköy district on Istanbul’s Anatolian side demanding a “peaceful solution” to the Kurdish problem.
Many demonstrators at the gathering who spoke to the Turkish Daily News highlighted their demands for peace, while saying they do not believe that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is [...]
