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Turkish Police likely killers of Tahir Elçi
Tahir Elçi, the Kurdish human rights lawyer, was shot dead in Diyarbakır, in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast (Northern Kurdistan), on November 28, 2015, while holding a press conference calling for peace in the region
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“A Difficult Year in Turkey”? You’re tellin’ me…
International Observatory of Human Rights have added to the long list of the country’s human rights violations in their recent 2018 in Review: Human Rights Violations in Turkey
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The theory and practice of the Kurdish Women’s Movement: an interview in Diyarbakir
One of the undisputed achievements of the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Syria is the advancement of women in social, economic, and political domains of life
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Human Rights. TURKEY ON ‘TRIAL’ Finally
the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal will meet on 15 & 16 March to examine the crimes committed by the Turkish Republic against the Kurdish people, both on its own (and Kurdish) territory and abroad
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TURKEY: KURDISH DEPUTIES JAILED
HDP Deputy İdris Baluken was sentenced by the Diyarbakir 8th High Criminal Court to 16 years and eight months in jail
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Poem in November. In memory of Tahir Elçi & Sergio Finardi
Tahir Elçi, Kurdish Lawyer and Human Rights defender, assassinated November 28, 2015 in Diyarbakir; Sergio Finardi, human rights defenders, died 03 December, 2015, Chicago
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Tahir Elçi. ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN NOVEMBER, 2015
On a day this week, 28 November, 2015, Tahir Elçi, Kurd, Lawyer and Human Rights defender was shot in Diyarbakir, Northern Kurdistan
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Cegerxwîn Academy of Arts: resisting cultural genocide
Ilhan Bakir is the director of the Cegerxwîn Cultural Center in Amed (Diyarbakir) and it is here, in the center’s confortable building that we meet him
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NO END TO THE SILENCE: human rights situation in South-East Turkey
Further details emerged on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Right’s concerns at Turkey’s war
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I lived fighting all my life – Sakine Cansiz- Part One
Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was murdered in Paris on 9 January 2013. Years ago, Sakine had told us about her first years in the Kurdish struggle and her search for a full and free life
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