The Kurdish struggle is committed against identity denial, assimilation and total annihilation. Since the foundation of the Turkish state, many languages, cultures, religions and peoples have been denied and have completely disappeared. The politics of the state have...
The Turkish state’s dirty and genocidal war against the Kurdish people is intensifying by the day. According to the latest news we have received from the town of Nusaybin in Mardin, tens of civilians have been severely wounded from Turkish tank fire. Medical...
By Hambersom Aghbashian, MassisPost, May 20, 2016 Doğan Özgüden (born 1936, Kalecik, Ankara) is a Turkish journalist and publisher. He completed his high school education in Ankara and got a license diploma from the Higher School of Economic and Commercial Sciences...
Foreign ministry refutes claim after UN expressed concern at lack of response to requests to conduct research in area This article was published on the website of The Guardian on 11 May 2016. The Turkish foreign ministry has dismissed a UN statement raising alarm over...
From Oslo to Ankara: two Kurdish women walk 5000 km for peace and justice Saadet Che Demir and Gulbahar Adanc are two young Kurdish women from Norway, who have a remarkable story to tell. Saadet and Gulbahar had been Kurdish activists for a long time, but the massacre...
Published by Open Democracy on 29 April 2016 President Erdoğan’s attack on academics and freedom of speech calls into question whether Turkey will ever comply with the Copenhagen Criteria which govern EU accession. But does Turkey care? Last Friday, April 21st,...