Salah Bayaziddi- There is a widespread historical grievance and dissatisfaction among Kurdish people in every corner of this country, and the Turkish government should finally come to its senses and look for a long-standing peaceful solution to the Kurdish conflict....
The Kurdish Globe-Neighbors say they seek "terrorists" hiding on border areas.Several villages evacuated, one woman wounded on Iraqi Kurdistan Region
borders due to Iran and Turkey bombardment.
DIHA - Throwing scarf is a tradition of Kurdish women to stop conflict and continues for years among the Kurdish. Scarf is a symbol of honor of women. Woman’s uncovering her head in front of crowd means current situation is not bearable anymore and needs to be stopped. Now, Kurdish women are using this tradition due to stop war on the mountains.
SUZAN FRASER : Kurdish Guerilla's on the Peace Road
Thousands of Turkish Kurds gathered Monday near the border with Iraq to
welcome a small group of Kurdish rebels planning to cross into Turkey
to support government plans for peace.Lawmaker Sabahat Tuncel said 34
Kurds would cross the Iraqi-Turkish Habur border gate, where
authorities set up tents and prosecutors were expected to question the
group.
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Thomas Seibert:Anger after officers who killed Kurds are cleared
The National 24.06.2009- On a November day five years ago, Turkish police stormed the house of
Ahmet Kaymaz, a lorry driver in Kiziltepe, a town in the country’s
Kurdish region in south-east Anatolia. Acting on a tipoff that Kurdish
rebels were hiding in the house, the officers opened fire immediately.
Kaymaz and his son Ugur, age 12, who witnesses said were unarmed, died
on the spot. Nine police bullets were later found in the boy’s back.
Bawer Cakir: Turkey Must Apologise to Relatives of Disappeared
Two weeks of activities protesting against the many disappearances in police or gendarmerie custody in Turkey ended with a Justice Tribunal, organised by the International Committee against Disappearances (ICAD).Held at Istanbul's Bilgi University Dolapdere campus on 31 May, the tribunal called for an apology by the state for all disappearances, as well as the trial of generals, police officers and politicians on duty during the period of most intensive fighting with the PKK.
Tolga Korkut: “Monumental Opportunity” for Solution to Kurdish Quest
Ahmet Türk, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP),
spoke at a party parliamentary group meeting yesterday (12 May).He referred to President Abdullah Gül’s description of the Kurdish
question as “Turkey’s priority” in his speech, saying that these
comments were “positive and encouraging”.“Our expectation and desire is that these messages are turned into
concrete steps and that the government will act as soon as possible.”
Thomas Seibert:After the massacre: give peace a chance
Shocked by the death of 44 people in a massacre in the country’s
Kurdish area, Turkey has started to question some of the fundamentals
of its approach to Kurdish issues, just as the leader of the Kurdish
rebels has been sending messages of moderation, a development that
could signal a chance for peace, observers say.“Call it a terror problem, south-eastern problem or Kurdish problem, it
is Turkey’s biggest problem,” the president, Abdullah Gul, told Turkish
reporters travelling with him on his plane on his way back from a
summit meeting of the EU with eastern European countries in Prague last
weekend. “It is problem number one. It definitely has to be solved.”