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Turkey’s Failed Coup and Erdogan’s Anti-Kurdish Agenda
On 15thJuly 2016 an unsuccessful attempt at a coup happened in Turkey. Even at this early stage, the post-coup process obviously will have important consequences. It is important to understand that this process was started on the 7th June 2015, when Erdogan lost the elections and conducted an anti-democratic intervention into the results. It is…
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Open letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to think again on the planned World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul
Peace in Kurdistan Campaign We learn with disbelief that the first World Humanitarian Summit will be hosted by President Erdogan in Istanbul.*) Of all locations where such an international event could be held, Turkey, at the present time, is the least suitable. The world is currently facing a humanitarian crisis on a massive scale. With…
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Do not allow a new Rwanda, Vukovar and Srebrenica in Kurdistan
“You remember Srebrenica? Vukovar? and Rwanda?” Twenty years ago when Ratko Mladic’s army of murderers rounded up the men and boys in Srebrenica and systematically slaughtered them, the world did nothing. Nobody did anything about the thugs on the hills overlooking Sarajevo bombarding the city and firing sniper rifles at innocent civilians. Today Turkish President…
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MEPs call the Member states for action: The PKK must be removed from the EU list of terrorist organisations
100+ MEPs call the Member states for action The perspective of achieving a peaceful and democratic solution to the Kurdish issue in Turkey is under serious threat. Violence is escalating and poses severe risks to the stability for Turkey as well as for the Middle East. In Turkey we are more and more facing an…
Analysis
Reports on Destruction and Repression in North Kurdistan
We would like to share three recent files about the physical destruction and humanitary situation in North Kurdistan, the Southeast of the Republic of Turkey. At first you can find a new and important report of the Union of Southeastern Anatolia Region (GABB) on the damage in the cities which were faced with a curfew…
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Şengal Êzdî Founding Assembly Decleration
TO INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION AND OUR ÊZÎDÎ PEOPLE On January 14, Wednesday, which is considered a sacred day by the Êzîdî people, we held our conference at the foot of Mount Şengal (Sinjar). Close to 200 delegates from the Newroz refugee camp in Dêrîk (Rojava), refugee camps in southern Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan) and from Mount…
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Final Resolution of 11th the European Union, Turkey, the Middle east and the Kurds
FINAL RESOLUTION 11th The European Union, Turkey, the Middle east and the Kurds 10-11 December 2014 The 11th EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) conference, on EU, Turkey and the Kurds was held 10-11 December 2014 in the European Parliament, under the theme “THE CHAOS and CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: NEW REGIONAL ORDER AND THE…