Turkish children’s tales begin with « rambles » much longer than our « Once upon a time ».
Auteur : Renée Lucie Bourges
Auteure, traductrice et interprète Née au Québec dans une famille franco-irlandaise, elle a vécu et travaillé comme rédactrice et traductrice en Amérique et au Moyen Orient. Elle réside dorénavant dans le sud-ouest de la France d'où elle écrit des romans en anglais, et fraternise au quotidien avec tous les autres funambules de son espèce. Site Internet : iknowiknowiknowblog.wordpress.com
Hand over the Gülen, I’ll give you the Bureau
Turkey’s AKP regime is making full use of European anti-terrorist “institutions” and “cooperations” in order to organize the hunt against its opponents.
An Advance for Rojava • A New District : Shahba
The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria has grown thanks to the addition of a new district : Shahba. This is major news.
Funding • Greetings from the kedi kitty
End of August, the Kedistan fund drive will be one year old. Here’s a look at how things stand right now. 5663 euros. As of Tuesday August 9th, that’s the total amount collected over almost 12 months.
August 18-26 • 40th Douarnenez Film Festival: “Frontiers”
The Douarnenez Film Festival is a great and ongoing adventure since 1978. Every year the festival explores a different destination through film, music, conferences and extends a hearty invitation to meet cultures, stories, artistic creations and struggles of peoples across the world.
Loup Bureau • The political context of his arrest
Coming at a few days’ interval, the arrest of French journalist Loup Bureau and the heavy sentences handed down to two Czech nationals, Markéta Všelichová and Miroslav Farkas, also arrested at the checkpoint between Turkey, Irak and Syria in November 2016, bring more light to the Turkish regime’s intentions.
Emani al-Rahmun, your story still needs to be written…
On July 6th, the media trumpeted a murder committed by two men. Emani al-Rahmun, a Syrian refugee living with her husband Halid and ten-month old baby Halaf in Kaynarca, Sakarya district, was raped and killed with her baby. The young woman was also nine months pregnant.
Zehra Doğan, a book, an exhibition, your support…
Reminder : journalist and artist Zehra Doğan has been sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in jail. She is imprisonned in Diyarbakir since June 12th. She had previously spent 141 days of incarceration in Mardin, up until December 9th 2016.
Procès Cumhuriyet • Plaidoirie d’Ahmet Şık
Par delà les petites phrases réécrites lues ici où là, il nous semblait important de publier l’intégrale de ce qu’Ahmet Şık appelle lui même “un acte d’accusation”. La version turque originale fait désormais l’objet d’une censure en Turquie.
Turkey • Zehra Doğan, rebellious and unsubmitted
Zehra Doğan was forced back into jail last June. She has been incarcerated in Diyarbakır (Amed) since.
Demirtaş to Erdoğan : “Don’t worry about me”…
During the press conference held in Hamburg after the G20 meeting, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared the following concerning Selahattin Demirtaş – the Co-President of the HDP Party jailed since November 4: “This man is a terrorist.
Denunciation as a method for conflict resolution…
Three leaders of the union for the private security sector, “Güvenlik-Sen”, tied to DISK (the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey) denounced three union members to the Republic’s Prosecutor for « insulting the President » when they expressed opposition against their leadership.
Ahmet Altan : “Acte d’accusation ou pornographie judiciaire”
Cette plaidoirie d’Ahmet Altan, dénonçant une “pornographie judiciaire”, n’aura été lue devant les juges qu’au 4e jour de la première audience du procès, soit le 22 juin 2017. En voici une traduction francophone.
Selahattin Demirtaş • Turkish Prison User Instructions
In a recent article in french, we published comments by Selahattin Demirtaş, praising the virtues of « popular humor » in order to be heard and understood without hatred or spite, despite all the seriousness of the repression.
Turkey : Trashcan Chronicle from a jail under leaden skies
This article is not an exhaustive analysis of contemporary Turkey. Far from it. It is nothing but a series of photographs, exposed or over-exposed. Putting words in order on disturbing realities helps in feeling better. Giving them out to read, a relief.
Turkey • Humanity calls for help through the window!
“Turkey is a safe country”. This is what European heads of State keep stating in order to justify the agreement for “the retention and exchange” of migrants and refugees. A refutation must be made of this denial of reality.
Trial “Özgür Gündem”, and defense of İnan Kızılkaya
The third hearing of the “Özgür Gündem” trial involving Necmiye Alpay, Aslı Erdoğan, Ragıp Zarakolu, Filiz Koçali, Eren Keskin, Zana Kaya, İnan Kızılkaya, Kemal Sancılıve Bilge Oykut Contepe was held on March 14 (2017), at Istanbul Court No. 23.
Dr. İbrahim Kaboğlu discharged and deprived of Sorbonne
Dr. İbrahim Kaboğlu, a prominent jurist has been put on the list of the academics discharged by the infamous decree of February 7th. Dr. İbrahim Kaboğlu isn’t just anybody in Turkish constitutional law…His name is among the first to be quoted when the notion of « Constitution » comes up. He teaches constitutional law at Marmara University, […]
Turkish jails : The WHO must investigate!
Eren Keskin is angry. And with good reasons. For months and months she has railed against the ill treatment and absence of medical care for prisoners in Turkish jails suffering from heavy pathologies.
Turkey • Ignoble game of prison musical chairs
We could use the metaphore of « musical chairs » concerning the arrests and liberations of these last three days if they didn’t constitute literal politico-judiciary harassment under police rule.
Aslı Erdoğan • An interview shortly after her release from jail
Shortly after Aslı Erdoğan’s release on probation in January 2017, journalist Ayşe Arman conducted a very long interview with her. After the interview was published in a Turkish newspaper with partial censorship, the journalist re-published in full on her blog.