"While the DTP hasn't taken any decision on what they intend to do, it seems the people here have and most of them are saying that they want their MPs out of parliament and they're opting for an armed struggle." Al Jazeera.
Thanks for helping us to see these amazing photos i had trouble finding these sort of pictures from newroz. keep up the good work you have a fabolous blog here.
Hevallo began because of the constant psychological warfare and criminalisation of the Kurdish Freedom Struggle in Turkey. There are not a lot of websites/blogs in English, that give uptodate information from a pro-Kurdish perspective and challenge the label of 'terrorist' that is so readily accepted by the Western governments and media. Hevallo tries to do that. Please help by linking with Hevallo and signing the 10 Downing Street ePetition below calling on UK Government to pressurise Turkey to release Abdullah Ocalan so as to enable a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish Question in Turkey.
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President Abdullah Ocalan.
Abdullah Ocalan, President of the PKK. Without Abdullah Ocalan and the PKK, there would argueably be no Kurdish Question today in Turkey. The brutal forced assimilation process began by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk would have undoubtedly succeded and no-one would today feel confident to call themselves a Kurd. Recently a petition was collected with 3 million signatures calling for his release. Tests carried out of his DNA have confirmed that he is being slowly poisoned in prison.
Mazlum Dogan
Although enduring systematic and terrible torture in Diyarbakir prison, Mazlum found the strength and sparked the Kurdish Serhildan on the day of the Kurdish New Year, Newroz, March 21st 1982, by setting fire to his own body as a act of resistance against the crimes perpetrated against the Kurdish people by the Turkish regime.This form of resistance has been emulated by many others since.
Ehmede Xani
Father of Kurdish Nationalism. Philosopher and poet he wrote one the most famous of Kurdish epics, Mem O Zin
Musa Anter
A Kurdish cultural icon and legend. Musa Anter was a writer who did not fear the Turkish regime. He was gunned down in Diyarbakir in a cowardly assassination 20th Sept 1992. An elderly Kurdish gentleman deeply feared by the Turkish state. He is now a Kurdish legend.
4,000 Kurdish towns, villages and hamlets brutally destroyed.
This is Lice. A Kurdish town of over 30,000 burnt to the ground by teams of flame throwers, tanks, squads of soldiers and helicopters. Over 4,000 Kurdish towns and villages were destroyed like this. Many tens of thousands of innocent Kurdish villagers extra judicially killed in the most barbaric ways imaginable.
Kurdish political prisoners.
Tens of thousands of Kurdish people are incarcerated in Turkish prisons for doing often no more than to campaign for Kurdish rights. Sometimes just to look Kurdish is enough to be a crime.
Martyrs of the Kurdish Freedom Struggle.
Agit. The First Martyr of PKK
Kurdish automony
Many Kurdish councils are getting themselves organised and are working hard to provide self help services to the Kurdish population like this carpet co-op. The central Turkish government of course starve the Kurdish region of finances.
Kurdish power.
The Kurdish people are at their strongest and most highly political. As can be witnessed every Newroz time when millions openly take to the streets to show support for the PKK. This frightens the government. In 2006 , the day after millions of Kurds celebrated Newroz the government planned an incident of a young child kicking a Turkish flag on the ground (below). Because of this the whole Kurdish population were branded as traitors by the media and political and army leaders. This then led to a right wing nationalist backlash. This is typical of politics in Turkey.
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Thanks for helping us to see these amazing photos i had trouble finding these sort of pictures from newroz.
keep up the good work you have a fabolous blog here.
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