Open letter to the European Parliament There are injured people who have taken refuge in basements in Cizre for almost a month. There was a man who informed us, the whole world, in fact you, the European Parliament as well, about what is happening in Cizre, that man was Cizre People’s Assembly co-chair Mehmet Tunç. […]
The Year 2016, Turkey,the story of two dead bodies This is the story of İsa Oran and Mesut Seviktek, whose dead bodies were left lying on the ground for 29 days in Suriçi, Diyarbakır because they could not be retrieved. Let me first of all say this; I am writing this article so that what happened […]
Kurds: We are Ready for Both War and Peace! Research Turkey Author: Nurcan Baysal, Diyarbakır Institute of Political and Social Studies Date: Dec 02, 2014 Kurds: We are Ready for Both War and Peace! No one knew yet that the incidents which started with ISIS’s attacks to the Yazidis’ holy city Sinjar on August 3 would […]
From the Book THAT DAY: The “Wise People” come to Kavar Today is the fifteenth of May 2013. I set out from Tavan to Çorsin just before noon. Today we have important guests. I get to Çorsin just after the Wise People Committee is about to arrive at the villages. Clearly the Wise People are not […]
Yazidis: “Kurds have protected us; if we are going to die, we will die together” “We are waiting for our fate” We wake up to a hot day. Fall has not arrived to Silopi as of yet. With its unpaved roads and non-working trucks left on the sides of the roads, Silopi seems to me […]
Yazidis are killed by saying“La İlahe İllallah”[1] Most of the Yazidis who came to Diyarbakır are staying as guests on property belonging to the Yenişehir Municipality, which is on the way to Mardin. The site is 10-15 kilometers away from the city center, and known among locals as the picnic site. A smaller group of […]