Is Şırnak one of the 81 cities of Turkey? I am in Şırnak, one of the Kurdish cities that was under curfew for 8 months, between 14 March-14 November 2016 . 70% of the city has been totally destroyed. 8 of the city’s 12 districts do not exist anymore. The streets that I walked on […]
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Turkey, a modern day soap opera
Turkey, a modern day soap opera Last week, I met with my Canadian friend who lives in Turkey. She told me about a Turkish soap opera that she watched that morning. In the soap-opera, the young women gave a bunch of flowers to her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law threw the flowers to the floor and stomped […]
The Kurdish Region Since The Coup Attempt The July 15th coup attempt was a nightmare. Kurds remember the terrible army coups in Turkey. After the army coups, Kurdish people were imprisoned, sustained, killed and tortured. Kurds are against army coups. The night of 15 July 2016, the pro-Kurdish party, HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) immediately condemned […]
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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Curfews in Turkish Kurdistan
Curfews in Turkish Kurdistan It was last January. I was in Brussels for a European Parliament meeting. A European journalist asked me about the curfews in Turkish Kurdistan. He told me that there were also curfews in Paris after the ISIS attack. He did not understand why Kurdish people were so angry about the curfews. […]
WHY CAN’T WE FIT GAYS AND TRANSSEXUALS INTO THIS HUGE WORLD? We fit murderers, thieves, rapists, child-abusers and any kind of foulness in this world. Why cannot we fit gays and transsexuals who do not have any designs on the rights of others? Why don’t we “stand up” for Hande as well, as we did for Özgecan? […]