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Turkey – Purge in Kurdistan Continues: Artist and Journalist Zehra Doğan Brought to Court
Friday, 9th December 2016, Zehra Doğan, award winning journalist, painter and poet and Jinha Womens News editor was scheduled in court today
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“Displaced and Dispossessed”. Turkey Condemned for Forced Exodus of Kurds from Diyarbakir
Tuesday, 6th December 2016, Amnesty International release their report “DISPLACED AND DISPOSSESSED: SUR RESIDENTS’ RIGHT TO RETURN HOME”.
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Aslı Erdogan, WRITER TO BE TRIED AS “TERRORIST”
Aslı Erdoğan… as of November 25th held for 98 days (along with 70 year old linguist, Necmiye Alpay, held now for 86 days) in Istanbul’s Bakırköy women’s prison in Istanbul
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Abdellatif Laabi an Introduction
Abdellatif Laâbi, poet, writer, and translator was born in Fez, (a French Protectorate since 1912), in 1942
Read MoreFor Asl? Erdo?an
On November 15th, Margaret Atwood writes to Asl? Erdo?an in a Turkish prison: “you are not alone”
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CHINA: Communist Party Legislates on Film Industry
Just recently, Monday November 7th, the 150 member Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress approved the new legislation regulating the growing film industry in China
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN NOVEMBER, 1990
On a day this week, the 11th November, 1990, the Greek poet, communist and political prisoner, Yannis Ritsos died in Athens
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TURKEY: DEALING DEATH BLOW TO DEMOCRACY
“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass – a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience – by experience.”
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November in Northern Kurdistan
The Co-chairs and Deputies of the HDP who were detained in a large-scale operation last night
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“In the first 9 months…” TERROR IN ‘TURKISH’ KURDISTAN
There isn’t a poem or a text or a piece of music that can adequately describe the terror and the outrage and the pain inflicted on humans in the course of our long history
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