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.
Lire la suiteA Bilge Aksu column, dedicated to the Kurdish artist Nûdem Durak, imprisoned since 2015, about the ongoing cultural censorship in Turkey.
Lire la suiteThe deepest darkness of night took shelter in the morning’s chest. In the stable, Dappir and Derman’s eyes broke through the darkness.
Lire la suiteThe Austrian Theodor Kramer Prize, rewarding writers in resistance or in exile, was awarded to the Kurdish author Meral Şimşek for the year 2022.
Lire la suite“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.”
Lire la suiteFacing 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.
Lire la suiteThere 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.
Lire la suiteMay 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”.
Lire la suite“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?”
Lire la suiteAggravated perpetuity for Osman Kavala and 18 years for 7 other people accused in the Gezi trial.
Lire la suiteHer 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.
Lire la suiteWhen 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.
Lire la suiteOn April 9, the suspicious death of Ferhan Yılmaz, a common law prisoner, incarcerated at Silivri Prison No. 5.
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