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TURKEY’S WAR AGAINST THE ACADEMICS…
Two recent studies have once again drawn attention to the unprecedented crackdown on academics and intellectual freedom in post coup Turkey
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Between two Kurdistans: a Russian anthropologist’s journey in search of self-government
Kurdistan is the unofficial name of territories where Kurds form a majority of the population. These include large parts of modern-day Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria
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Turkey Jails HDP MP Figen Yüksekdağ – AGAIN…
Figen Yüksekdağ and her co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş have been in jail since November 2016
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The Struggle for Peace in Northern Kurdistan…
In amidst the deep silence of the western media in the face of the violent suppression of Turkey’s Kurds
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TURKEY: More Walls…Less Peace
Turkish President and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced plans, at the end of May, to construct walls to the south and south-east with neighbours Iraq and Iran
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ABDULLAH ÖCALAN NOMINATED FOR SYDNEY PEACE PRIZE
Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has been nominated for the Sydney Peace Prize
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Kurdish Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Ends after 63 Days
Rosa Gilbert: “As political prisoners continue to suffer in Turkish jails, silence amounts to complicity with the newly empowered fascist regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Be a voice against silence.”
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‘The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan – Kurdistan, Women’s Revolution And Democratic Confederalism’
April 15 saw the launch of Abdullah Öcalan’s new book: The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan – Kurdistan, Women’s Revolution And Democratic Confederalism’ published by the British-based progressive publisher, Pluto Press
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Turkish Court Curtails Writer’s Travel
n the same month that a Turkish Court sentenced Zehra Doğan, artist and journalist, to almost 3 years in prison for a painting, an Istanbul court has reaffirmed the travel ban on writer Asli Erdoğan in the ongoing war against Freedom of Expression the Turkish State is currently engaged in
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TURKEY HUNGER STRIKES: DIALOGUE BEGINS
Dialogue has begun between prison authorities and the hunger-striking Kurdish prisoners held in in Edirne High Security Prison in the northwestern province.
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