Kurds

How much do we know about a community whose number was initially around 500 and exceed 1000s after the new wave of migration from Iraq? How much do we know about Ezidi even if we don’t exactly know how to write their name? Amed Gökçen from Bilgi University explained to bianet.

An act regarding Turkey’s Resolution Process has been legislated at the Parliament. The Undersecretariat of Public Order and Security of Turkey is going to carry out the coordination of the efforts within resolution process and their secretariat services.

Turkey’s first bi-monthly magazine on Kurdish history has hit the bookshelves. Published in Turkish, “Kürt Tarihi” (“Kurdish History”) delves into the annals of the Kurdish past, long overlooked by official institutions engaged in historiography.

Posta Newspaper writer Candaş Tolga Işık was heavily criticized in several provinces for his article "Satellite dish terrorism in the south-east". Protestors called for a boycott of the Doğan Media Group. Professional press organizations remained silent till now.

There have been memorial events of the Halabja Massacre in 1988, in which Saddam Hussein ordered the massacre of thousands of Kurds in Northern Iraq.