Michael Knapp:The State Terror of the Nineties is back again
The Turkish government and the Turkish Armed Forces are escalating the
war against the Kurdish people and its liberation movement. In the
Nineties nearly 4000 villages were burned by security forces, more than
17,000 people were killed by Turkish death squads and the population of
the Kurdish region had been terrorized on a huge scale by military,
police and the secret service. These measures of terror have returned
once again in 2010.
FT: Nationalism: Modest reforms fail to curb Kurdish offensive
By Delphine Strauss 28.06.2010-Mourners chanted “Martyrs do not die,
our country is not split”, when they gathered at Ankara’s main mosque
this month for the funeral of a baby-faced 21-year-old killed by Kurdish
rebels. Old women dabbed their eyes, while young men, draped in Turkish
flags, shouted army songs and nationalist slogans.It is a year since Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, promised
reforms to broaden Kurdish rights, aimed at ending the bitter 26-year
struggle with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
ANF - While the military mobilization of the Turkish army is increasing in the region, the measures adopted in the 1990’s are being resurrected once again.Soldiers in the region ordered the headmen of some villages of Hizan, Tatvan and Güroymak/Bitlis to warn their citizens that they have to report to the station before they go out of the villages for whatever reason.
Mustafa Ismail on trial in a military court in Syria
SKS - The Second Military Prosecutor in the Military Court in Aleppo has charged Mustafa Ismail with making plans and actions aimed at offending Syrian relationships with foreign countries and being member of an illegal organization aiming to divide Syria and join this annex to a new country. The case is number 394-2010, 13 May 2010
Human rights associations denounce torture in prison
ANF 26.06.2010- Three deaths and 143 tortures in prison have been reported by various human rights organizations over the past five months.Human Rights Association (IHD), Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (THIV) and Contemporary Lawyers Association (CHD) Izmir Branches held a press conference on International Day for Solidarity with Tortured People and Struggle against Torture.
SKS 26.06.2010- MAD logo On 15 June 2010, the Criminal Military Court in Aleppo sentenced Delsher Khatib Ahmed from Qamishli, and Lawrence Hejar from Amuda town to five years imprisonment under Articles 267/288 of the Penal Code of Syria, which was reduced to two and a half years, on charges of belonging to a political organization that aims to annex part of Syrian territory, and annex it to a foreign country.
Intellectuals: Kurds needs to be referred as acceptor and solution must be solve
DIHA - In conjunction with increasing clashes, discussions about the methods for solving Kurdish question are now at the top of the intellectuals’ agenda, once again.
KHRP Alarmed to Hear Reports of Village Destruction in Ilisu Region
KHRP 25.06.2010- Hasankeyf KHRP is alarmed to hear reports from its local partners that two villages in the Hasankeyf district, the site of the controversial Ilisu Dam project, were yesterday set alight by the Turkish army.Both the villages of Keçeli (Bizinka) and Palamutlu (Xerbekar) –- villages previously destroyed by the Turkish military in the 1990’s and which stand to be flooded by the Ilisu Dam reservoir if construction of the hydro-electric dam goes ahead — were burned.
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The Turkish government and the Turkish Armed Forces are escalating the
war against the Kurdish people and its liberation movement. In the
Nineties nearly 4000 villages were burned by security forces, more than
17,000 people were killed by Turkish death squads and the population of
the Kurdish region had been terrorized on a huge scale by military,
police and the secret service. These measures of terror have returned
once again in 2010.
By Delphine Strauss 28.06.2010-
SKS - 
ANF 26.06.2010- 
DIHA - 
KHRP 25.06.2010-