Tag Archives: Turkey
Commander of PKK Special Forces killed
Anatolia News Agency reported that a senior PKK commander was killed. According to the news agency, Mazlum Demir, codenamed as Jir, the commander of the PKK special forces, who was in the red bulletin and wanted, was targeted. According to the report, Mazlum Demir was shot and killed during a joint operation between the Turkish […]
HRW condemns Turkey for violating the Kurdish rights
HRW urged Turkish authorities to investigate the case of a Kurdish man who died the day before after being detained earlier by government security forces and loaded into a helicopter before it took flight in Van. The two men were thrown out of a helicopter, as they were detained and accused of aiding the PKK. […]
Turkey banned the Kurdish language in social media, too
Turkey’s anti-Kurdish policy is taking on new dimensions every day. While the Kurdish language has been officially banned in Turkey for nearly a century, and even Kurdish politicians have been and continue to be indifferent to it, Turkey is imposing more and more restrictions on the Kurdish language. Qars Governor Turker Okuz dissolved the city […]
Kurdish singer: Turkish gendarmerie warned me not to sing a Kurdish song, otherwise…
Jasim Bashboga, a Kurdish singer from the Tatvan region of Turkey’s Bitlis province, known as Jasim the Singer, announced that the gendarmerie had summoned him and officially warned him that he had no right to sing in Kurdish. The singer added: “I was taken to a room in the gendarmerie where it was written” MIT/Turkish […]
What the PKK does
By: Bube Eser, Kurdish Politician If we look at the PKK formation process, we can ask: What has this organization done for the Kurds? What places has it released? How is the siuation of the areas where the PKK has fought and is fighting? The PKK has brought nothing to the Kurds with its ideology […]
Turkey imprisons Kurdish clergyman for speaking Kurdish
The book “Moloud” (Birth letter) by prominent Kurdish poet and cleric Mullah Hassan Bateyi was written in 19 chapters and in the form of music and poetry n 15th century, it is in praise of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Since then, moloud-reading ceremonies, especially at the birthday of the Great Prophet of Islam, have been […]
Erdogan, the murderer of Kurdish children, must be tried
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to commit crimes against the Syrian people, including the Kurds, in Afrin by occupying Syrian territory and supporting ISIS and other violent terrorist groups. The gunmen affiliated to these terrorist groups once again committed crimes following an international committee of inquiry of the United Nations recently announced that Turkish-affiliated […]
New ban on Kurdish language in Turkey
According to the Turkish constitution, all citizens of that country officially are called as Turk and everyone’s language is considered as Turkish. If a person introduces himself as a non-Turk, he “commits an illegal act.” For the past century or so, even speaking Kurdish has been banned. In the latest move, the government ordered that […]
Note / Again racism, again attack, again the green light of the government
Seasonal labor is one of the most important elements of life for many Kurdish families in Turkey. Turkish Kurdistan, due to the government’s lack of attention on one hand, and the PKK’s armed violence on the other hand, has become a completely underdeveloped economic region, and the Turkish authorities themselves have repeatedly confirmed the underdevelopment […]
Spokesman for the President of Turkey: US Support for the PKK is the poison in our relations
Continued US arms and logistical support for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a branch of the PKK In Syria, provokes a Turkish reaction. Ibrahim Kalin, a spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, tweeted that the United States continues to support the PKK-affiliated group. He criticized and called for an end to this support. US […]