24 December 2009: yet another day in Kurdish calendar of misery and betrayal
Muharrem Erbey, chairman of the Diyarbakır branch of the Human Rights Association (İHD), spent the final minutes of his workday on December 23, 2009 writing a New Year’s message to İHD’s supporters around the world. He was anxious to send out the letter that day, lest it lie unread in European inboxes during the holiday period stretching from Christmas to January 02.
Chronology of Ceasefires: Peace efforts of the Kurdish Side 1993-2010
After years of fighting, the Kurdish liberation movement sought to find a
political solution of the conflict. These efforts of the PKK, Kurdistan
Worker’s Party, were underlined by the declaration of its first
unilateral ceasefire in 1993. This truce however was undermined and
sabotaged by gangs of war profiteers within the PKK and the Turkish
state.
Roj Tv is the tv channel of the country that does not exist. And perhaps
this is why it induces fear. Because everyday it tells the story of the
invisible country and because of that even more uncomfortable for the
bad conscience of many. Often the stories it tells are stories of
repression, violence, of the dirty war that nobody (or few) want to
tell. Sometimes they are stories of resistance. Of a culture that keeps
growing and producing artists, musicians, writers and poets. Roj Tv is
all this and much more.
SPECIAL-Ceasfire is Over, A new Phase has been started
Kurdish Info 05 .06.2010- The leader of the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Abdullah Öcalan has
decided to withdraw from the political process due to the lack of
response to his efforts for peace. Subsequently, the KCK Executive
Committee decided to end the unilateral ceasefire which has lasted 13
months.
“ROLE OF KURDISH WOMEN IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRACY”
THE FINAL RESOLUTION OF CONFERENCE 24-25 April 2010 / DIYARBAKIR- Our conference, which covered subjects such as the denial of Kurdish
identity and related state policies, problems of Kurdish women,
perspectives of solutions, methods of struggle, representative role of
women in the process of democratic struggle, elimination of gender
inequality and the methods through which women maintain national unity,
has taken place with the participation of 150 Kurdish female Kurdish
politicians, academics, journalists as well as those working as part of
human rights and civil society organizations, and reached the decisions
below.
Oppressions, arrests, banns lasts 112 years on Kurdish press
DIHA 21.04.2010–The adventure of Kurdish press began on April 22 1898 by Mîqdat Mîdhat
Bedîrxan who published the news paper called Kurdistan in Cairo. Since
then, Kurdish press succeed to survive even though all kinds of
suppression lasted 112 years.Here are the some mile stones during Kurdish press’s 112-year adventure.
Mazlum Dogan was born in Teman, a village outside of Mazgirt in the
province of Dersim, in 1955. He went to school in Karakocan. In 1974, he
passed the university entrance exams and won the right to go to
Hacettepe, an ivy league level school, in Ankara, Turkey.
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After years of fighting, the Kurdish liberation movement sought to find a
political solution of the conflict. These efforts of the PKK, Kurdistan
Worker’s Party, were underlined by the declaration of its first
unilateral ceasefire in 1993. This truce however was undermined and
sabotaged by gangs of war profiteers within the PKK and the Turkish
state.
Roj Tv is the tv channel of the country that does not exist. And perhaps
this is why it induces fear. Because everyday it tells the story of the
invisible country and because of that even more uncomfortable for the
bad conscience of many. Often the stories it tells are stories of
repression, violence, of the dirty war that nobody (or few) want to
tell. Sometimes they are stories of resistance. Of a culture that keeps
growing and producing artists, musicians, writers and poets. Roj Tv is
all this and much more.
Kurdish Info 05 .06.2010- 
DIHA 21.04.2010–