I am the corpse of the Other… The Kurd you call “terrorist”. The Armenian you insult. The Greek whose home you confiscated, The Rom you throw out, the Arab you despise.
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
Torture, considered as advertising material
This is a new translation of an article published in Turkish, denouncing the trivialization of torture in Turkey, not to say its promotion by groups and factions within and outside the State.
Fehim Taştekin’s book “Rojava, the time of the Kurds”, banned
Following a judiciary decision banning his book “Rojava: Kürtlerin Zamanı” (Rojava: the time of the Kurds) Turkish investigative reporter Fehim Taştekin, whose reports on Syria have aroused interest in the general public, published a reaction on his Twitter account Wednesday.
Turkey • The incident that killed Umut Kozay
The death of a Kurdish child is no longer newsworthy in Turkish « big media ». The war goes on killing children, silently.
Çağdaş Erdoğan • Letter from prison
After 13 days in custody and in isolation, journalist-photographer Çağdaş Erdoğan, was placed in preventive detention in Istanbul on September 13 under the now-traditional accusation of belonging to a terrorist organization.
Ercan Jan Aktaş • The fight that makes you stronger and freer
We recently published an interview with Ercan Jan Aktaş, concerning conscientious objection in Turkey, and the aggravation of conditions for conscientious objectors under the state of emergency.
Turkey • Being a conscientious objector under the state of emergency
Zeynep Koçak questioned author and journalist Ercan Jan Aktaş, a conscientious objector now exiled in France… A friendly interview, published in Turkish in Kopuntu on September 30th 2017.
Diyarbakır • Sur and the erasing of memory
Archeologists have insisted on being involved in the demolition and reconstruction projects carried out in the historical neighborhood of Sur (Diyarbakır), destroyed by Turkish governmental forces.
Turkey launches a “serious operation” in Idlib
Turkey declared on Saturday that rebel Syrian groups had launched a military operation in Idlib Syria, where a Djihadist alliance is blocking efforts for an imposed truce between insurgents and the Syrian government.
Ibrahim Kalin: “All is ready for an intervention in Efrîn”
The Turkish President’s spokesperson Ibrahim Kalın has declared that “all is ready for an intervention in Efrîn.” The AKP’s attacks and threats against the gains of the Kurdish people continue.
Ferhat Encü • “Our fight for Roboski will go on”
Ferhat Öncü is one of the HDP members of Parliament imprisoned in Turkey… He represents the town of Şırnak and has been in detention since November 4 2016. He was arrested along with nine other members of Parliament, including HDP Co-Presidents Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ. Today a life sentence to be served in full was requested against […]
Artist Fatoş İrwen, also thrown in jail
Fatoş İrven, or “İrwen” (with the Kurdish spelling she commonly uses) a Kurdish woman, teacher and artist was thrown in jail following a court decision resting on no evidence – in application of the “anti-terrorist” law, of course.
Tribute to Gabar : “In helping them, we protect ourselves”
Gabar was a French national who joined the YPG in Rojava. He was interviewed for a book titled “La Commune du Rojava”, éditions SyllepsE, 2017. Wounded at that time, Gabar had vowed to return to the fight.
2e festival du film Rojava • 13 novembre 2017
Promesse faite, promesse tenue. Il y aura bien un 2e festival du film au Rojava. Et nous en annonçons les contenus, même si le Rojava, encerclé par les guerres ou les menaces n’est toujours pas région facile à atteindre aujourd’hui.
Memed Aksoy • His light will shine forever
Memed Aksoy, a Kurdo-British film-maker died in Raqqa, victim of an attack by ISIS that also killed a Kurdish journalist and fighters.
Çağdaş Erdoğan’s Night Journey
According to his agency 140journos, photographer Çağdaş Erdoğan has been arrested in Istanbul. He was officially arrested on September 13 on the now-traditional accusation of belonging to a terrorist organization.
Author Burhan Sönmez awarded the Václav Havel Prize
The Václav Havel İstanbul Prize was awarded to Burhan Sönmez for his novel İstanbul İstanbul, translated in 25 languages.
It was supposed to be Nuriye and Semih’s first hearing…
The first session of Nuriye and Semih’s trial was held today, September 14, in Ankara. The two who were fired from their teaching positions have been on hunger strike since March 9 2017. They were taken into custody on May 22 and jailed on May 23rd.
The Strange French Affair of the Wolf, the Simit and the General
Wasn’t it one of your royal first ladies who said “if they have no bread, let them eat brioche”? Apparently, this is top of the news in Turkey. Your minister of strange – I mean, foreign – affairs should be coming over shortly to do business with our government.
Kazım Kızıl, aka “Ka” : OK, back to work!
Kazım Kızıl, aka “Ka”, journalist at Kamera Sokak, photographer and video activist, was taken into custody on April 17 while he was covering a protest demonstration in Izmir, then jailed for three months.
Eren Keskin: Instead of going abroad, I’ll be going to jail
We consider essential the translation of this interview with Eren Keskin, lawyer and activist for human rights in Turkey, an interview which embraces the totality of the matters of today and yesterday’s justice.
Uberisation Turkish style : cleaning up on exploitation
In an article published by Sol Gazetesi, Ayçin Özoktay documents the exploitation of daily domestic service employees, now an integral part of the service industry which functions like other industrial sectors on a capitalist mechanism that rests on the exploitation of a work force « with no security » , « flexible » and « […]
Şûjin shut down, women’s journalism lives on
Şûjin, the feminist newspaper, has been banned and shut down, following the promulgation of decree n° 693 on August 25th. Şûjin’s offices and those of the news agency Diha, also forbidden by decree, have been placed under seal.