NATO Summit and Turkish Blackmail
Erdoğan can crow because, at this NATO summit, he has just won a diplomatic victory that opens up new horizons for him.
En savoir plusErdoğan can crow because, at this NATO summit, he has just won a diplomatic victory that opens up new horizons for him.
En savoir plusAcquitted four times, Pınar Selek, sociologist, teacher and researcher, has just been sentenced to life imprisonment again by Turkey’s Supreme Court.
En savoir plusInvestigating 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.
En savoir plusIn 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.
En savoir plusThen 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?”
En savoir plusA Bilge Aksu column, dedicated to the Kurdish artist Nûdem Durak, imprisoned since 2015, about the ongoing cultural censorship in Turkey.
En savoir plusThe deepest darkness of night took shelter in the morning’s chest. In the stable, Dappir and Derman’s eyes broke through the darkness.
En savoir plusThe Austrian Theodor Kramer Prize, rewarding writers in resistance or in exile, was awarded to the Kurdish author Meral Şimşek for the year 2022.
En savoir plusKürt yazar Meral Şimşek, sürgün yaşayan ve direniş sergileyen yazarlara verilen Theodor Kramer edebiyat ödülünün sahibi oldu.
En savoir plusLe prix autrichien Theodor Kramer, qui récompense les écrivain.es en résistance ou en exil, a été décerné pour 2022, à l’autrice kurde Meral Şimşek.
En savoir plus“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.”
En savoir plusFacing 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.
En savoir plusThere 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.
En savoir plus“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?”
En savoir plusAggravated perpetuity for Osman Kavala and 18 years for 7 other people accused in the Gezi trial.
En savoir plusHer 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.
En savoir plusTimothy Snyder est historien, spécialisé dans la question des génocides. Il parle de la publication par l’agence russe RIA Novosti d’un livret qui constitue un véritable programme d’élimination complète de la nation ukrainienne.
En savoir plusWhen 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.
En savoir plusOn April 9, the suspicious death of Ferhan Yılmaz, a common law prisoner, incarcerated at Silivri Prison No. 5.
En savoir plusOnce upon a time, there was talk of the loves between Ferhat and Şirin, Tahir and Zühre, Aslı and Kerem or yet again Romeo and Juliet, impossible loves or thwarted ones whose names never left people’s lips…
En savoir plusJuly 2018 and yet another ordinary day at Tarsus; an overcrowded block, extreme heat and excessive circulation.
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