Turkey • Choosing One’s Solidarity ?
A Bilge Aksu column, dedicated to the Kurdish artist Nûdem Durak, imprisoned since 2015, about the ongoing cultural censorship in Turkey.
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Catégorie : English
Suna Arev • Dappir’s Hands |3
The deepest darkness of night took shelter in the morning’s chest. In the stable, Dappir and Derman’s eyes broke through the darkness.
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Austrian Theodor Kramer Prize awarded to Meral Şimşek
The Austrian Theodor Kramer Prize, rewarding writers in resistance or in exile, was awarded to the Kurdish author Meral Şimşek for the year 2022.
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Notes from prison 4 • Persecution in prisons, a deliberate policy
“I wish to share with public opinion and the Ministry of Justice, my demands and proposals concerning conditions in prison and the problems which I observed and personally encountered as a prisoner.”
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A woman who cares for others with empathy
Facing up to other people’s suffering, seeing it, is a virtue, but the systems that feed off fear and individualism and their masters, detest these virtues and generally chastise those who possess them.
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Suna Arev • Dappir’s Hands |2
There was a girl in the class, Derman, thirteen years old, with a golden tan like that of wheat, she had long braids of black hair reaching down to her waist.
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Berlin • European Initiative Against the Gezi Trial Verdict
May 4th 2022, in the city of Berlin, a march to make known the indignation provoked by the recent verdict in the so-called “Gezi Trial”.
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Notes from Prison 3 • Strip-searches, Sivas prison
“Undress yourself!”. I said “I certainly will not. I was taken here precisely because I don’t accept strip searches, and now, you would be the ones enforcing it?”
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2nd Gezi Trial • A Verdict of Total Injustice
Aggravated perpetuity for Osman Kavala and 18 years for 7 other people accused in the Gezi trial.
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Suna Arev • Dappir’s Hands |1
Her hands are Dappir’s concern. She’s going on her ninety years, but the age of her hands, the suffering in those hands are heavier than the weight of years.
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Ukraine • While Waiting for the Bomb |6
When the appetite isn’t for fossil fuels, rare or rarified minerals, it is for water. The most obvious instances being the Amazon or the Middle East. To which we add Ukraine, since we will get back to it.
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Aslıhan Gençay • Who killed Ferhan Yılmaz?
On April 9, the suspicious death of Ferhan Yılmaz, a common law prisoner, incarcerated at Silivri Prison No. 5.
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