Book Launch: Abdullah Ocalan PRISON WRITINGS: THE PKK AND THE KURDISH QUESTION..
Book Lunch organized by Transmedia Publishing Ltd. & Pluto Press in association with Peace in Kurdistan Campaign on Thursday 2 June 2011, 6.30pm at Garden Court Chambers in London (UK).
NEW BOOK:Twelve years imprisonment in Imrali Prison
Kurdish Info 22.01.2011 - Twelve years life and imprisonment of Kurdish national leader Mr. Abdullah Ocalan were published. Kurdish national leader was abducted in 15th February 1999 and handed over to Turkey, where he has been held in a solitary confinement ever since. The journalist of Gunluk newspaper, Cengiz Kapmaz has written and published the 12 year life of Ocalan in Imrali Island.
The Kurdish and Armenian Genocides from censorship and denial to recognition?
NEW BOOK OF POTENTIAL INTEREST: By Desmond Fernandes
Apec Press, Stockholm, December 2007
ISBN: 91-89675-72-X
Turkey’s repression of the Kurds has been widely documented - and is acknowledged as a major obstacle to Turkey’s accession to the European Union. But what lies behind such repression? Fernandes confronts the issue head on, forcing the reader to probe a question that many in Turkey and elsewhere would rather avoid: does the systematic repression of the Kurds amount to genocide?
New Book: Uprising, Suppression, Retribution. The Kurdish Struggle in Turkey in
Hevallo-The importance of this book cannot be overstated, as it details the long and painful history of the Kurdish Struggle in Turkey. A history that has been banned, distorted, ignored and subject to psychological warfare by the Turkish authorities.
A retired army officer has published a book entitled "I have Seen Betrayal" in which he recounts incidents of the army abusing its position, creating fake battles and disguising soldiers as PKK militants.
Prison Writings: The Roots of Civilisation, by Abdullah Ocalan. Translated by Klaus Happel. Pluto Press, 2007. 320 pages, with notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00, hardcover.
Michael M. Gunter, professor of political science, Tennessee Technological University.