About 20 Turkish trucks loaded with steel wait behind a fence at the Esendere border crossing with Iran. On the Iranian side, the trucks will be unloaded into depots, but today there is little movement. “There is less work, there are fewer trucks going towards the border. It’s become harder for me to feed my […]
‘We will fight this decision all the way to the European Court for Human Rights’. It’s a sentence you hear often when injustice is done once again in a Turkish court, or when you talk to people who feel they have been treated unjustly by the state. Way more often than not, the ECHR rules […]
YUKSEKOVA – The Turkish government is worried about the advance united Kurdish groups are making in North-east Syria. The Kurdish flag was raised on several government buildings in Kurdish towns in the region. ‘Syria shouldn’t fall apart but must stay united’, Ankara has warned the Syrian opposition, according to reports in Turkish media on Tuesday. […]
When you wake up at six in the morning as a Kurdish intellectual, politician, administrator or activist, you must feel relieved. Because when the police come to get you, they always knock on your door in the early hours of the morning, around five. That’s what also happened to some thirteen youngsters on Monday, two […]
Hek hun rewşenbîr, sîyasetmedar an çalakvanekî Kurd bin, gava ku hun di seet şeşan de şîyar bibin, hun ê xwe baş his bikin. Hek polîs ji bo girtina we biryar dabe, ew ê di berbanga tarî de, di seet pêncan de li derîyê we xîne. Piştî xwepêşandana ji bo azadîya Serokê PKKê Ocalan ji kontrolê […]
Bir Kürt entellektüeli, siyasetçi veya activist iseniz sabah saat altıda uyandığınızda kendinizi rahatlamış hissedersiniz. Çünkü polis sizi almaya gelecekse kapınızı sabahın köründe, saat beş gibi çalacaktır. Bu pazartesi günü Diyarbakır’da PKK lideri Öcalan’ın özgürlüğü için düzenlenen gösteri kontroldan çıktıktan iki gün sonra onüç gencin kapısı sabahın erken saatlerinde böyle çalındı.
I’ve been dreaming about my past life a few times this week. My past life of some fifteen years ago. I was back again in the house I lived in at the time, with the man I was with. All the couples of those days, of whom many have since separated, were happily together again. […]
Ever heard of a weekly that is only published once a month? In Turkey, there is one. Hüseyin Aykol, editor in chief of daily paper Özgür Gündem which publishes a lot about the Kurdish issue, shows it to me: it’s called Demokratik Ulus, or “democratic nation”. It gets banned from publishing for a month practically […]
Ayda bir yayınlanan haftalık dergi duymuş muydunuz? Türkiye’de var. Özgür Gündem gazetesi yayın yönetmeni Hüseyin Aykol gösterdi: adı Demokratik Ulus. Yayınlandığı an hakkında bir aylık yasak kararı alınıyor. Ama tüm yasaklamalar gibi sorunu çözmenin de bir yolu var.
We bihîstibû ku kovareke mehane ya ji hefteyekê carekê tê weşandin heye? Li Tirkîyê heye. Berpirsîyarê Ozgur Gundemê Huseyîn Aykol dîyar kir: Navê vê kovarê Netewê Demokratîk e. Gava ku tê weşandin, di derbarê wê de ji bo mehekê biryara qedexekirinê derdikeve. Lê ji bo wek hemû qedexekirinan, ji bo çareserîyê jî rêyek heye.