Fréderike Geerdink Nine years ago today, 34 boys and men were murdered by the Turkish state in what we know now as the Roboski massacre. I happened to have investigated this massacre throughly, wrote a book about it and I know for a fact that the mass murder was a deliberate act.Read More
by Fréderike Geerdink As expected, yesterday afternoon the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered the immediate release of former HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş. Several of his rights, like his freedom of expression, his right to liberty and security and to a speedy decision on the lawfulness of his detention, […]Read More
by Fréderike Geerdink At least eight deaths already in the protests against partially paid and delays in unpaid salaries, unemployment, the deteriorating economic situation in general, corruption and nepotism in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. In Duhok, military vehicles are on the streets to prevent demonstrations from breaking out while in cities in the south […]Read More
by Fréderike Geerdink The gangs of Daesh were a few hundred metres away from the military base of the PKK at the frontline near Kirkuk. That fact didn’t distract the fighters that evening. Some were slaughtering a sheep that had been brought in from a base closer to the city, others were sitting on the […]Read More
Fréderike Geerdink After France, my own country the Netherlands has also taken the first steps to ban the Grey Wolves. And as much as I hate the Grey Wolves, banning them makes no sense whatsoever. Not only because it is for very good reasons – you know, the freedom of association, rooted in constitutions and […]Read More
by Fréderike Geerdink The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) camp where I was having tea with a few fighters was located on a route between two villages so locals passed through every now and then.Read More
by Fréderike Geerdink The Kurdistan Region in Iraq has never fully abolished the death penalty. People are sometimes sentenced to death, mostly for terrorism related crimes and for exceptionally cruel murders, but usually, the Region’s president refuses to ratify death sentences. It cannot be ruled out though that the two men who were sentenced to […]Read More
MedyaNews Exclusive by Fréderike Geerdink There are twenty one cases of Covid-19 at present in Makhmur camp, the refugee camp in Iraq where Kurds who had fled from state violence in the southeast of Turkey during the 1990’s now live. Five people are in a serious condition.Read More
Fréderike Geerdink In the spring of 2017, amid rising tensions between several armed groups in the Şengal region of Northwestern Iraq, a young woman died. Hundreds of people came to offer their condolences to the family of the woman. Some of those in the women’s tent looked not just sad, but also exhausted and hopeless. […]Read More
Fréderike Geerdink On the morning of 3 December 1994, Yakut Yılmaz let himself down onto the red tiled pavement, right in front of the distribution office of daily paper Özgür Ülke in Diyarbakır. He was just informed that the offices of the paper in Ankara and Istanbul had been bombed to smithereens. He had been […]Read More
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