Destina and Fatma Tokmak: Joined hearts
I wish to tell you about a mother, a Kurdish prisoner, ill, and of her child. This is the story of Fatma Tokmak and of Destina.
Lire la suiteI wish to tell you about a mother, a Kurdish prisoner, ill, and of her child. This is the story of Fatma Tokmak and of Destina.
Lire la suiteOnce does not a custom make, on this Friday August 5th, Erdoğan and Putin insisted that their preliminary remarks prior to a prolonged meeting be conveyed to the media worldwide.
Lire la suiteThe housework fairies with their dusting cloths in one hand, their mops licking the floors clean, the clear water in their buckets turning dark as they move through their chores…
Lire la suite“Tell me about the bakery,” she said, “that transparent four-eyed window…”. “Because, by crawling, the Casern moved all the way to the cash at the bakery”.
Lire la suiteKurdish author Meral Şimşek was expected in Oldenburg Germany for the regular Kurdish PEN congress, of which she is a member…
Lire la suiteIn a modern European country, in one of the biggest airports in the world, a silver plane takes off for Sulaymaniyah, at the heart of the Middle East.
Lire la suiteErdoğan can crow because, at this NATO summit, he has just won a diplomatic victory that opens up new horizons for him.
Lire la suiteAcquitted four times, Pınar Selek, sociologist, teacher and researcher, has just been sentenced to life imprisonment again by Turkey’s Supreme Court.
Lire la suiteInvestigating new forms of writing about reality, the Kurdish magazine Wêje û Rexne (Literature and Criticism) conducted an interview with writer Joseph Andras. Here is a version in English.
Lire la suiteIn closing this chronicle that has stretched out across these one hundred days of this current war in Europe, I return to the Black Sea and Turkey.
Lire la suiteThen I meet those who read what I write. They look at my life as a bayonet and ask “you’re the one writing these texts?”. “Not at tall, ladies and gentlemen”, I tell them, “who am I to allow myself the right to write?”
Lire la suiteA Bilge Aksu column, dedicated to the Kurdish artist Nûdem Durak, imprisoned since 2015, about the ongoing cultural censorship in Turkey.
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