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The price of saying “no” to war in Turkey

It was just after midnight. I was watching TV as my sons played nearby. My younger son was playing with Lego as my older son played on his phone. My husband and another friend were also with us. A normal Sunday night. All of a sudden, I heard a terrible noise. At first, I thought […]

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Some Notes for the Warmongers

Some Notes for the Warmongers In the last couple of weeks, İnsan Hakları Derneği (Human Rights Association) Diyarbakır Branch has published an important report on human rights violations between the dates July 24, 2015 and July 24, 2017, which attests to the atrocities faced by our society in numbers. According to this report, in the […]

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Aren’t we going to question “why did these 1552 people die”?

Aren’t we going to question  “why did these 1552 people die”? The Diyarbakır Branch of Human Rights Association (İHD) has just released a new report, publishing the results of the last year war between the Turkish government and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). According to İHD’s report, between 24 July 2015-24 July 2016, 1552 people […]

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Open letter to the European Parliament

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. […]