Interview with Mr. Murat Karayilan, Chair of KCK (Democratic Communities of Kurd
20 September 2007
We see the continuing prison isolation of Mr Ocalan, the imposition of intolerable health and living conditions, and can see that his political identity is suffering in the surroundings that he is subject to. Mr Ocalan himself has brought to light the fact that his political interventions are being blocked. What are the intentions behind such actions?
- AN INQUIRY BY IHD / MAZLUM DER Research-Inquiry Report about Arbitrary Detention, Threat, Food Embargo, Compel to Forcibly Evacuation and other violations in Çemekare Field of Yaprak Village in Pervari District of Siirt Province, Southeast Region of Turkey
Baydemir to be
investigated - Vatan
The Avisory`s 1st Council have stated their concurrence with the Home
Secretary`s decision to commence investigation against Osman Baydemir,
Mayor of Diyarbakir. The grounds for the investigation are that Mr
Baydemir had had a “Kurdish banner” raised and had
“printed Kurdish invitations”.
General staff offence charges against ‘Bin Umut’ candidate – 22.06.2007
KARS (DIHA) - The General Staff Presidency made charges against the independent MP ‘Bin Umut’ candidate Mahmut Alinak.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - "Happy is he who says he is a Turk," pipe hundreds of uniformed children in unison, lined up in the playground before a golden statue of Turkey's revered father Ataturk, for a daily pledge of hard work and sacrifice.
PJAK and the Kurdish struggle in Iranian Kurdistan
Kurdishmedia-Resolving the Kurdish issue in all parts of Kurdistan is of strategic importance for the prospects of democracy and stability in the future of the Middle East.
Kurdishmedia-Fate has indeed dealt an interesting hand to the Kurds. Upon the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds, a distinct cultural and linguistic minority, were guaranteed a state of their own per the Treaty of Sevres.[1] In the end, while dozens of independent nation-states were realized among the Arab population alone, the Kurds today remain the largest ethnic group in the world without their own state.