💥 my
#book
about the
#pkk
, 'this
#fire
never dies', is out at
@LeftwordBooks
! i spent a year with the org in camps, caves and at the frontline, talked to many figters about their aspirations and ideology, lived their daily lives with them. order now! 💥
BREAKING
i'm deported from the kurdistan region in iraq. i almost crossed the border into northeast-syria when suddenly atmosphere changed, i was put in a car with police and brought to erbil airport, where i'm now. persona non grata. erdoğan's arm is long.
#journalismisnotacrime
#uganda
opposition leader (whose election victory was stolen by authoritarian president museveni) visits
#kyiv
, now that's what i call international
#solidarity
.
In Kyiv-Ukraine to express solidarity with the Ukranian people and leadership against Russia's war of aggression and occupation.
If the dictators stand by each other, the democrats should stand by each other too. It's dangerous but noble.
for your information:
#pkk
attacks military targets in the rural southeast of
#turkey
. and kurdistan freedom hawks (tak)? tak hits military/police targets in cities. yesterday's bombing was aimed at innocent civilians, which fully rules out pkk and tak.
kemalism and erdoganism are two sides of the same coin. in both systems, democracy is impossible and the kurds are doomed - and women, for that matter. (yes, women too, kemalism = peak patriarchy)
#turkey
or
#t
ürkiye, what's the difference?
Thousands of students at a university festival in Kayseri, in the middle of Anatolia shout in unison: "long live Mustafa Kemal [Ataturk]." For a gov 2 decades in power that wished to replace this ideology with their own, this can't be the expected outcome.
erdogan says cutting electricity and water to gaza is human rights violation - while he boms power plants and water stations in syria.
he says gaza houses of worship and clinics are hit and everybody is silent - he hit a mosque in makhkur and clinic in syria: world wide crickets.
Erdoğan:
- “Gazze'ye elektrik ve suyun kesilmesi insan hakları ihlalidir.”
- “ABD uçak gemisinin İsrail'de ne işi var? Ne yapmaya geliyor?”
- “İbadethaneler, hastaneler vicdansızca vuruluyor ve kimse bir şey söylemiyor.”
- “Bir şeyi açıklamam gerekiyor. Bugün ABD'nin
rockets hit turkish town of
#karkam
ış at the syrian border, three dead and six injured. of course the gov says "pkk" did it. there is no pkk in syria to begin with, but which town is across the border in syria?
#jarablus
. who controls jarablus since many years?
#turkey
.
'special police forces' came to a
#village
in van province to detain a man and this is what happened - it's mind blowing. this is why kurdish
#journalists
are thrown in jail: the realities of
#kurdistan
must remain unseen.
#turkey
Başkale ilçesi Xaşkan Mahallesi’nde K.A adlı yurttaşı gözaltına almak için gelen özel harekat polisleri havaya dakikalarca ateş açtı, duruma itiraz eden kadınları da darp etti
the racist in charge wins the elections and dutch tv is analyzing it as if it's very normal. "people want stricter policies", "what did the small islamd of vlieland vote?", giggle giggle, wtff. this fucking country and its white supremacy, it's horrendous.
Turkish state is attacking the Kurdish civilians who are protesting against unfair dismissal of Kurdish winner candidate and appointment of AKP loser candidate
So, things are moving fast. The High Election Board has officially given the mayorship of Van to the AKP candidate, who was *not elected*, after it last-minute (on Friday) revoked DEM Party's Zeydan's right to get elected. Zeydan got 55.5% of the votes, AKP candidate Arvas 27.2%.
#turkey
attacks civilian infrastructure in
#syria
. this is how the turkish gov utilizes the pkk attack in ankara: it quickly made up that the perpetrators came via syria to justify attacks on civilian infrastructure of the autonomous administration, which it considers terrorist.
🖊
@fgeerdink
| After Fréderike Geerdink's comment, "Defol Kürdistan'dan" (Get out of
#Kurdistan
), ignited a hostile reaction from Turkish nationalists, she pens this illuminating article on the role of
#Sel
çukBayraktar in Kurdistan:
🔗
#sweden
actually extradited a
#kurd
to
#turkey
. mahmut tat's asylum application was rejected - was there no appeal running? sending a kurd to
#turkey
who is convicted for 'terrorism' is outrageous: these trials are shams.
horrific footage of azerbaijani soldiers executing armenian prisoners of war in such a brutal manner. won't share it but i saw others ask the necessary question: when will the eu stop to appease brutal regimes who are guilty of war crimes to advance its own agenda?
I was under ultra heavy attack of Turkish ultra-nationalists for 3 days. I reported a few of the most dirty death threats to X and all of them were rejected. Weapons, body bags, "we'll come and get you in Utrecht", all of that shit: fine in Elon's gospel. Disgusting.
#turkey
is killing civilians in
#syria
, both in kurdish- and arab-majority areas that are part of the autonomous administration. it also hit power plants, water installations, clinics and other civilian infrastructure.
#warcrimes
2 children as young as 9&10 have been killed by the turkish army near Ain Issa - 2 other children have been heavily injured.
This airstrike and artillery campaign by the turkish army must be stopped. Everyday more and more civilians in Rojava die at the hands of the turkish army
dutch 'journalism' in times of a government made shelter crisis for asylum seekers: set up talkshow at the reception center, talk with mostly white people about the people concerned, who are visible behind a fence. this just fucking can't be real - but it is.
Şırnak'ta
#Se
çilÖğretmen'in bu yaptığı etkinlik Cumhuriyet haftası kapsamında bütün okullarda yapılır/yapılmalı. Pkk'lı alcakların saldırma nedeni; öğretmenleri sindirip, bölgede bu tür etkinliklerin yapılmasına fırsat vermemektir..
#BREAKING
: Turkish defense ministry says PKK fighters attacked its forces in the Kurdistan Region, killing one soldier and injuring four others - Statement
erdogan speaks of 'justice' and the crowd starts calling for the death penalty for demirtas. "selo'ya idam." this is horrific. plenty of grey wolves hand signs too of course.
#fascism
#turkey
Während Erdoğan sich bei seiner Siegesrede gerade zum inhaftierten Selahattin Demirtaş geäußert und sagt, dass er ihn niemals freilassen werde, fordert die Menge seine Todesstrafe(!). Im Türkischen: "Selo'ya idam".
yeşilgöz ile ilgili çok şeyler söyleyebilirsiniz ama 'türk düsmanı' değil. ermeni soykırım vardı tabii ki. babası sendikalıydı, pkk üyesi değildi. ve dilan 'başkan adayı' değil, bir sağ partinin lideridir. sabah yine yalan haber yapıyor.
Türk düşmanlığıyla bilinen Dilan Yeşilgöz'ün Hollanda başbakanı olmasına kesin gözüyle bakılıyor. Sözde Ermeni soykırımını tanıyan Yeşilgöz’ün Türklere karşı olan nefretinin ise köklü bir geçmişi var. Peki, Dilan Yeşilgöz aslında kim?
#DilanYe
şilgöz
#Hollanda
#PKK
#LGBT
it is utterly sad that the authorities in the
#kurdistan
region in iraq are so
#afraid
of a woman with a
#pen
. and for their own local journalists, for that matter, who are being jailed more often than ever.
i am so incredibly proud that my pen is too sharp for power. but you know what, all of you who write about kurdistan and turkey? sharpen your pens, they can't deport and ban us all. eternal death to both-sides 'journalism'.
de eerste stap richting een oplossing, wilders, is dat jij van het toneel verdwijnt. 2de kamer nam de wet aan, 1ste ook, de direct betrokkenen snakten naar deze wet, klaar. je hebt geen meerderheid, je hebt het niet voor het zeggen.
#inpakken
#wegwezen
waking up to quite some blood thirst in my timeline of turks who just love love love that their army is bombing kobani, tel rifaat and other places in
#syria
. they just love dead kurds.
whenever i tweet about my brand new
#book
about the
#pkk
, people ask if it's available in english. not yet, but i'll shout it off the roofs when it is, promise! meanwhile, dutch readers describe the book as 'fascinating' and 'a journalistic masterpiece'.
kurdish language teacher in
#amed
teaches kids who chose kurdish as elective course kurdish geographical names. makes sense, right? but no, she is harshly attacked on social media.
not many kids choose this course, there's a lack of teachers and.. stigmatisation.
#turkey
Mizgin Öğretmen Yanlız Değil
Kürtçe öğretmeni Mizgin Yalçın ‘Kürtçe şehir isimleri’ için hedef gösterildi
#Diyarbak
ır'da Kürtçe öğretmenliği yapan Mizgin Yalçın, öğlencilere şehir isimlerini Kürtçe öğrettiği videosu üzerinden hedef gösterildi
Mizgin öğretmen destek istiyor.
wit privilege mag best benoemd worden
@Nieuwsuur
, zeker als
@wol
de vraag stelt hoe dit kan gebeuren in een van de best bewaakte gebouwen ter wereld. deze 100% witte demonstranten kunnen dit dus doen zonder neergeknald te worden.
fascists in
#bursa
(west-
#turkey
) gather with torches and sound bombs and fire works in front of hotel where kurdish
#amedspor
players are staying.
#turkey
hoe oud was jij toen je ontdekte dat 't
#kofschip
een echt soort schip is en geen verzonnen woord om te weten of het voltooid deelwoord met d of t moet? ik 51.
wat een clusterfuck,
@NOS
. partijen beconcurreren elkaar op islamhaat en dús noemen jullie 'islam' als iets om je zorgen om te maken, 'om zo ons publiek de kans te geven zich erin te herkennen'? zo is de cirkel mooi rond he? waar zit jullie verstand?!
leuk
@VPROTegenlicht
, ik mag komen praten bij jullie after-programma over journalistiek in de zwijger maar jullie hebben 0 budget. alleen voor 'performers' is geld. hoe hálen jullie het in je hoofd?! jullie betaald werken, ik voor noppes? zal ik mijn expertise komen 'performen'?
“Volgens het oorlogsrecht kan een ziekenhuis de speciale beschermde status verliezen, als er vanuit daar militaire activiteiten worden vernomen”, zegt brigadegeneraal Han Bouwmeester in
#Op1
.
#WNL
#Wan
is messy after two days of protests so the local chamber of architects and volunteers go out on the street to clean up. It's their city, after all, with their mayor and their mess :-) Peak Kurdish movement, this.
here's the turkish army openly making kids enthusiastic to the army while telling them in school that every turk is born to be a soldier, but tell me again it's the pkk having child soldiers. like i said: want to know turkey? check what they accuse pkk of.
Vanavond keerde ik met een klein groepje Bosma de rug toe tijdens de
#Dodenherdenking
op de Dam. Net daarvoor in een speech: "Laten we haat geen podium geven." Niet te bevatten hoe weinig besef er is van wat er gaande is. Komt door de geschiedenis. Lees!
ask yourself: who profits from this
#bombing
in
#istanbul
? it's fully against the interest of the
#kurds
in
#syria
, they will actually be targeted now. this bombing is exactly what erdoğan needs: a reason to invade syria again.
hilâl, also one of erdogan's puppet 'journalists'. stoltenberg said 'threat of terrorism', not 'fetö terrorism', you liar. stop your dirty manipulations.
NATO Secretary General stated that “FETO terrorism is high threat on the NATO agenda.”
This is a first and also a good beginning to show Türkiye that our security concerns are taken seriously. Now it’s time to see some concrete steps.
a primary school in
#urfa
lets
#kurdish
kids, aged 9 and 10, dress up like turkish soldiers and perform a militarist death-cult show, turkish flags all over the place. this is fascism.
#turkey
today, 1937: seyid rıza is taken to court in elazığ, where he would be sentenced to death. he was the leader of the
#resistance
against the state's genocidal campaign against the alevi kurds of
#dersim
, 1937 & 1938. he was hanged, and never forgotten. a
#hero
in kurdish history.
today the
#pkk
celebrates its 45th
#birthday
. an important day because the foundation of the pkk is seen as the start of the re-awakening of the kurdish people. the reversal of forced assimilation of
#kurds
started.
Violence in
#Belgium
, with
#Turks
attacking
#Kurds
with weapons after hunting them down. I don't doubt
@ScharoMaroof
's account of events: he's reliable, and I know this dynamic between Turkish and Kurdish communities in Europe: Kurds don't provoke, let alone start violence.
Another mob attack by the Turkish fascists in Heusden-Zolder (Belgium)
11 Turkish fascists roam the streets on a manhunt for Kurds, they found 1 elderly Kurdish men and 9 Turkish men brutally attack him.
The men in red, likely also Kurdish intervened and was attacked too
Erbil, capital
#Kurdistan
Region in Iraq, projects Turkish flag on its most important architectural heritage on evening before Erdoğan's visit.
#Turkey
is expanding its occupation of Kurdistan, killing your citizens and you please the occupying power's head of state like this?
Late last night, I decided to drive to the Castle by myself to clear my head. But, seeing this did not sit well with me and truly blinded me.
I question whether this is an example of ‘good diplomacy’?! I’m sorry, but it doesn’t seem to be.
henüz belli değil arkadaşlar. sağ partisi vvd'nin lideri olacak, sonra seçimler olacak (kasım ayında), sonra yeni bir koalisyon yapması gerekiyor. (ve dikkat edin: yeşilgöz kesinlikle solcu kürt bir devrimci değildir.)
in a car with a bunch of
#kurds
on the way to
#paris
. we left at 5am and first slept but now after a coffee break the conversation is on: "the biggest enemy of capitalism is unity among the people." truth heval, truth.
selahattin demirtaş's father tahir died. may he rest in peace.
yet again, a political prisoner, or let's say hostage of the turkish state, wasn't able to say a final farewell to a close family member. it is heart wrenching and infuriating.
on he bright side: the chance that erdoğan will drone me to smithereens on the way to kobani (because that's where i was going for a big story for a dutch magazine) has decreased to zero.
this photo is doing the rounds on turkish twitter. defense ministry announced 6 soldiers died in the war against pkk in the mountains in kurdistan ("north of iraq") and this is the home of one of them in a town in tokat, black sea region. the rich order war in which the poor die.
incredibly sad news:
#lawyer
ebru timtik, daughter of dersim, has passed away after a hungerstrike and then
#deathfast
of in total 238 days. she wanted a fair trial for all and respect for the rule of
#law
.
#turkey
and ypg and ypj in
#syria
? that's, if possible, even bigger nonsense. they defend the autonomously administered regions in
#syria
, they don't do cross-border ops, only extremely occasionally retaliation at turkish military targets outside civilian areas in border provinces.
verschillende vrouwen liggen hier intens onder vuur en ik vind dat gevaarlijk en verschrikkelijk. ze zijn alledrie zo integer als wat, dat weet ik zeker, en hun aanvallers zijn het schuim der aarde. mysogyne, racistische, hitsende klootzakken: brand in de hel.
must be difficult for
#kurds
from
#iraq
who were freezing on the polish border very recently to see how the border to
#poland
is now suddenly open for
#refugees
. white christians are welcomed with open arms.
Soldiers in Şemdinli are terrorizing Kurdish citizens minding their own business in a minibus. The soldiers are harrassing, insulting and threatening them, and shooting in the air. The citizens get angry, one is brave enough to film it. DEM Party MP
@oznurbartin
shared the video.
Bu sabah Hakkari - Şapatan köyünden Şemdinli ilçesine gelmek için hareket eden köy minibüsünü durduran kolluk kuvvetleri, içinde ailelerinde olduğu köylüleri araçtan indirmek istedi. Köylüler GBT kontrolünün araçtan yapılmasını isteyince kolluk kuvvetleri önce hakaret etti
#turkey
does this too, writing messages on missiles that are used to kill
#kurds
. the list of similarities between israel and turkey is very, very long.
What is this satanic ritual of writing messages on missiles that will be dropped to kill people and shatter small children’s bodies to smithereens? It’s open to tourists and diaspora too.
What do we see? A Kurdish woman in Germany, with a Kurdish flag and behind her the pre-1979 Iranian flag (a regime that suppressed Kurds too), surrounded by flags of the fascist genocidal state of Israel, calling for a ban of fascist Grey Wolves, with Jin Jiyan Azadî in her bio.
Ich widme diese Rede meiner Schwester, Ateret Schmuel, die seit Jahren an unserer Seite steht, uns kurdischen Frauen. Ich habe versucht, so stark wie sie zu sein, als ich sie am Ende zitierte. Ich habe auch darüber nachgedacht, was es für mich und meine Familie bedeutet, die
look, selahattin demirtaş has grown a
#beard
. he also said attacking
#hdp
won't weaken it, that hdp only answers to the
#people
and exists to solve all problems, including violence, in a
#peaceful
manner via politics.
başak demirtaş says that she and her husband and children could have gone abroad before selahattin was arrested because they knew he was going to be jailed, but they decided to stay and continue the struggle with the people. he was jailed in nov 2016.
#kurdistan
#turkey
no, he said 'the threat of terrorism', not 'fetö terrorism', you manipulative liars of erdogan's trt. jens stoltenberg would never say 'fetö terrorism', it's quatsch. fetö as a terrorist group only exists in turkey's imagination, nobody recognizes it as such, let alone nato.
NATO chief Stoltenberg:
- President Putin trying to close NATO’s door, we demonstrate that NATO’s door remains open
- Best way of winning minds and hearts is to stand together in addressing all security threats we face both more aggressive Russia but also FETO terrorism