8 days ago by : ڕۆژپڕێس / Rojpress

با وجود گذشت ده ماه از آغاز اعتراضات سوریه، هنوز بسیاری از کردهای این کشور با تردید به این خیزش می نگرند و از پیوستن به آن اکراه دارند. برای این مسئله می توان دلایلی چند اقامه کرد، از جمله خاطرات تلخ شورش ناکامشان درسال ۲۰۰۴ و مشارکت عربهای همسایه در سرکوب آنها، استقرار شورای [...]

12 days ago by Crethi Plethi

Note: There is an email link embedded within this post, please visit this post to email it. | Note: There is a print link embedded within this post, please visit this post to print it. Mon, Jan 23, 2012 | By Richard Weitz This article was first published in the Turkey Analyst, vol. 5 no. 1, (www.tur ...

16 days ago by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Dear those who celebrate the censorship of RojTV, When an entire people are systematically oppressed and marginalized, small actions to make their story heard can have dramatic consequences. Similarly, small actions to silence their voice can have dramatic and tragic consequences. RojTV is one of th ...

23 days ago by KB

On the night of the Uludere massacre, Roj TV and Kurdish Social Media played an critical role in breaking the news silence of the Turkish and International Media. “This is not like in the old times. Now is the age … Continue reading →

29 days ago by Post on Politics

In Karayollari, a Kurdish-majority neighborhood in Istanbul, the locals are seething. On Dec. 28, Turkish warplanes flying over Uludere, close to the Iraqi border, rained bombs on what pilots believed to be a column of militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish separatist group. It ...

31 days ago by jonathanfryer

When the Centre for Turkey Studies and Development (CTSD) invited two leading journalists/writers from Turkey over to London to speak at a meeting in the House of Commons this evening on the state of the democratisation process in their country, they could little have realised how febrile the atmosp ...

31 days ago by Fréderike Geerdink

Denderleeuw – ‘We won!’ An employee of the Kurdish channel RojTV, broadcasting under a Danish license, enters the newsroom with a phone in his hand. He is on the line to Denmark, where the judge just announced the verdict in a case against RojTV, which is accused by the Turkish government of being a ...

32 days ago by Fréderike Geerdink

The verdict is there: RojTV, the Kurdish TVchannel broadcasting from Belgium with a Danish license, will not be closed. Good news! A victory for the freedom of speech. Having said that, I deeply wish for RojTV to disappear naturally, or at least to radically change. I have the same wish for many Tur ...

34 days ago by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

The death of a Kurdish youth in Harasta on Thursday morning and the injury of three protesters in Qamişlo were a result of the sniper fire of the Syrian regime, which has killed over 5,000 civilians since the start of major anti-government protests 10 months ago. In Syria’s Kurdish north, protesters ...

37 days ago by Barry Lando

I get the feeling, with the flurry of bloody new terroristattacks in Iraq, that we’re watching the smoldering shell of a tanker carryinghigh-octane fuel that’s just run off the road--waiting for the climactic explosionthat will perhaps finally blow the country apart. The temptation is to blame it al ...