I was watching a video recorded last year during the Newroz (Kurdish spring festival) celebrations at Dicle University in Diyarbakır. Kurdish university students were whistling a Kurdish song. A group of police came, began to beat them and dragged them across the ground. Last week, we learned what happened to those university students. The Diyarbakir […]
Last weekend, one of my friends from the Italian Women Journalists’ Association called me and invited me to participate in a journalists’ forum to be held in Rome in March. I sadly told them that I am under a judicial control, meaning I have report to the police station once a month and have a […]
As published in Birikim magazine, number 254, 2010 On the 1st of February, the story of Asliye and Zeynep who died on the road to buy books, appeared in the daily papers as a small ‘fait divers’. Asliye and Zeynep drowned while walking in Capakcur Stream because they did not have 1 TL to pay […]