Türkiye’de son dakika haberi: Kürtler sonunda barış istiyor. Geçtiğimiz perşembe günü 9 Ocak’ta Paris’te bir suikaste uğrayan üç Kürt kadına veda etmek için düzenlenen mitingde birçok Kürt siyasetçi barış yolundaki adımlara destek verdiklerini ifade ettiler. Önce Türk medyasının Kürtlerin barış istemini bir haber olarak geçmemesini daha önce Kürtleri duymak istememesine bağladım. Hala öyle düşünüyorum ama […]
Nûçeya deqeya dawîn ya li Tirkîyê: Daxwaza Kurdan aştî ye. Di roja pêncşema borî, di 9ê meha yekem de sê jinên Kurd li Parîsê hatin kuştin, di mîtînga ku ji bo van jinên Kurd hat çêkirin de gelek sîyasetmedarên Kurd gotin ku em pşitgirîya gavên di rêya aştîyê de dikin. Çapemenîya Tirk daxwaza Kurdan ya […]
TUNCELI – PKK founder Sakine Cansiz has been buried in the eastern Turkish city of Tunceli. At least five thousand people from Turkey and Europe attended the ceremony, along with members of her family who live in Rotterdam. The ceremony was Alevi, an Islamic path that is important in the province. An Alevi leader called […]
DIYARBAKIR – In the Turkish city of Diyarbakir tens of thousands of people said goodbye to PKKfounder Sakine Cansiz and two other Kurdish female activists, who were murdered in Paris last week. Her family members who live in Rotterdam were also present. The ceremony was emotional and passed without any incidents. On Wednesday night the […]
It is not just the families of the victims of the Uludere massacre who still feel the pain of their loss. The whole village is affected by the bombings, which occurred just over a year ago, on December 28, 2011. But the pain of the entire community can be seen in each of their stories. […]
My thoughts go back these days to a story I wrote in 1996. What it was about isn’t important. The state of mind I was in is. Pure concentration, no distraction, only that one story that I wanted to write as perfectly as possible. I worked for hours in what we would now call ‘flow’, […]
It’s all vanity. I just couldn’t resist when national IMC-TV asked me to be on their late night show to talk about developments in the Kurdish issue. In Turkish. Vanity, a will to be part of the debate, a wish to speak out. Could I do that properly in Turkish? The funny answer is: I’m […]
After a few months in Diyarbakir, I’m flying back to Istanbul later today. I’m not sure for how long, but I hope to be back in my new base camp Diyarbakir very soon. What gives me no choice but to leave now is the totally deplorable electricity situation here, which makes it impossible to write […]
I wrote this blog post yesterday, Thursday 3 January. While writing it, it turned out that two Kurdish politicians and one of his lawyers were visiting Abdullah Öcalan. This is remarkable, since Öcalan has had no contact with anybody but his family (and only occassionally) since more than one and a half year. The one […]
Bu yazıyı dün, 3.Ocak Perşembe günü yazdım. Sonradan ortaya çıktı ki ben bu satırları yazarken iki Kürt milletvekili ve avukatlarından biri Abdullah Öcalan’ı ziyaret ediyormuş. Bu çok önemli bir gelişme çünkü Öcalan birbuçuk yıldan bu yana ailesinden başka (o da çok seyrek olmak üzere) kimse ile görüştürülmedi. Devlet adına onunla görüşen kişi ise MİT Müsteşarı […]