Kurdish issue

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Academics: We Need Freedom as Well as Laicism

Around 400 academics have signed a statement which calls for democratisation not only around clothing rules at university.

13 February 2008 Tolga Korkut

Five Months Imprisonment for Kurdish Petition

Publisher Mehdi Tanrikulu has been sentenced to five months imprisonment for writing a petititon in Kurdish and for speaking Kurdish in court. He will appeal against the sentence.

12 February 2008 Erol Önderoğlu

“Peace Can Only Happen with Women’s Liberation”

The Peace Parliament organised a symposium entitled “Democratisation and the Kurdish Issue during the New Constitutional Process.” Without women, peace is not achievable.

12 February 2008 A. Nilüfer Zengin Kürkçü

Call for Peace from Cudi Mountain

The demonstrators who had set out from Diyarbakir to Sirnak in order to protest against cross-border operations spent the night at Cudi Mountain.

7 February 2008 A. Nilüfer Zengin Kürkçü

Headscarf Debate Diverts Attention from Kurdish Issue and Economic Crisis

Headscarf Debate Diverts Attention from Kurdish Issue and Economic Crisis

Prof. Dr. Narli predicts that the proposed constitutional change will reduce social tension. Yet the current debate is also diverting attention from the Kurdish issue and the global economic crisis, she believes.

31 January 2008 Erhan Üstündağ

Kurdologist van Bruinessen: Turks and Kurds Should Trust Each Other

“The DTP, as the elected representatives of the Kurds must be allowed space; the PKK must be taken seriously,” warns reputed sociologist Prof. van Bruinessen pointing out that the Kurdish problem arises out of inequality and denial of cultural rights.

28 January 2008 A. Nilüfer Zengin Kürkçü

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