turkishdailynews.com.tr (Thursday, June 23, 2005 )Its name is the Democratic Society Movement. It is a new group, a mixture of Turkish and Kurdish individuals that is in the process of becoming a political party. People like Leyla Zana, Orhan Dogan and Celal Dogan are a part of it. However, the state bureaucracy has already directed its angry gaze on the movement
Karl Vick :Army Takes Offensive As Kurdish Rebels Return From Iraq
PERVARI, Turkey -- Residents of this town nestled in the cliffs of southeastern Turkey counted 86 military vehicles lurching deeper into the mountains one day last month, with foot soldiers peering out. Overhead, Cobra attack helicopters stuttered across an epic blue sky laced by the contrails of F-16 warplanes.
The European Court of Human Rights will announce its decision on complaints filed by PKK leader Öcalan’s lawyers. What will the decision entail? What will Turkey be asked to do? I have drawn up a few scenarios for those interested.
Carla Reschia: Kurdish people without homeland: “Help us or war will be”
Article printed on “La Stampa” (the third most important daily Italian newspaper) first page of foreign affairs, on Sunday the 27th March 2005.
Two years after the Iraq war beginning: New middle east backgrounds
Reportage from Carla Reschia, correspondent from Hakkari .
Kurdish people without homeland: “Help us or war will be”.
In Hakkari, near the Iraq boarder, where the traditional new year’s eve Newroz was celebrated legally for the first time, big hanger there was. People hopes in Europe, but an army of ten thousand of guerrillas is ready..
Karl Vick: Hostility bodes ill for efforts to boost Americans’ image
ISTANBUL- 9 April 2005 The Washington Post - "In many Turks’ eyes, U.S. remains the enemy": In Turkey, heralded as the model of a Westward-looking Muslim democracy, sales records were shattered this spring by a book that imagines a U.S. invasion of this nation, a longtime U.S. ally. Polls show an overwhelming majority of Turks regard that scenario as a real possibility.
13 March 2005/ by Jean Rafferty - Sunday Herhald (UK)
The fluidity in Beyoglu No 2 criminal court in Istanbul borders on chaos. The judge is away training for the introduction of the Turkish penal code, his deputy is sick, and it seems nobody wants to take on the case of dissident writer and publisher, Ragip Zarakolu. Why would they? There is the Turkish government to answer to if you come up with the wrong verdict, and world opinion to contend with, in the shape of eight international observers, a chap from the British Consulate, two German cameramen and assorted supporters and reporters clogging up the corridors.
I would like to apologize for not being able to attend this conference and hope that one of the speakers at the conference will be able to read this message on my behalf. Thank you so much for this. I’m just coming back from a mission in Iskenderun, where I attended a trial against policemen who tortured two young Kurdish students and met human rights associations. I could witness myself the struggle of Kurdish people for justice and recognition of their rights.
Bianet/ISTANBUL 31 January 2005- The Turkish Association of the Handicapped is launching the "Turkey Without Handicaps" project. The project aims at raising awareness about the lives of the handicapped people among the public and among the young in particular. Sukru Boyraz, head of "Turkish Association of the Handicapped," launches public relations logo and slogan competition under the title: "Turkey without Handicaps." Boyraz said the "Turkey without Handicaps" project would help remove the distance between the country's disabled people and those who are not. He added that the practical solutions created by the young people participating in the project would benefit the handicapped.
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