The Weeping Rocks, located in Pülümür Valley in the city of Tunceli (Dersim) in Turkey, symbolize the sorrows of residents in the region from past to present.Read More
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Residents voice concerns over the Bağlar urban renewal project in
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Poor neighbourhoods in Turkey have often been criminalized and ghettoized. When it comes to Kurdish cities, this marginalization becomes even more extreme, and ‘urban renewal’ can and often does have devastating consequences on the poorest residents.Read More
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Urban renewal in Diyarbakır: A tool for gentrification and assimilation?
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Successive urban renewal projects in Diyarbakır’s (Amed’s) two strategic districts, Sur and Bağlar, might be designed to achieve hidden objectives of the Turkish state. These are the sentiments expressed by a number of urban specialists and residents, who suspect that under the discourse of ‘modernization’ and ‘economic revival’, there […]Read More
Humanitarian and civil rights organizations based in Kurdistan and Europe have appealed to international society to break the silence and take action to save more than 400 women who have been kidnapped in Afrin.Read More
The harvest season for walnuts continues in the Hizan (Xîzan) district of the city of Bitlis (Bedlîs) in eastern Turkey.Read More
An art project has been launched to draw attention to violence against women in the city of Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan.Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan Hawraman, a mountainous region in the provinces of Kurdistan, is located within Kurdistan and Kermanshah in western Iran and in the north-eastern Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Sometimes, the region is pronounced as Avroman.Read More
Restraints on actions and events have continued in Van city, eastern Turkey, for almost four years.Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan Polat Can’s latest book, In Criticism of the Eastern Mind, has been published by the Xazalnus publishing house and bookstore in south Kurdistan.Read More
The North and East Syria Autonomous Administration has made a statement condemning Turkish attacks against the North and East Syria region.Read More
