ΒιΆΉΣ³»'s Alex Bainbridge travelled to Turkey in February, where he spoke with People's Democratic Party MP HiΕyar Γzsoy about repression in the country.
Kurdish struggle
Thousands of Kurds and their international supporters converged for a huge protest in Strasbourg, France, to demand the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan,Β writesΒ Peter Boyle.
Kurdish political leaders celebrated a βhistoricβ verdict after a Belgian court ruled the Kurdistan Workersβ PartyΒ is not a terrorist organisation, reports Steve Sweeney.
A joint review by Resistance: Young Socialist Alliance members.
This year's Students of Sustainability (SOS) conference, organised by the Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN), took place in Musgrave Park, Brisbane on Jagera and Turrbal country July 7-11. SOS started in Canberra in 1991 and is the longest running, annual student conference in Australia.
On March 13, a bomb explosion killed 37 people in the Turkish capital, Ankara. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Protestors knock down police barricade in Amed, March 2. Photo: Kurdish Question.
Thousands of people marched to the Sur district of Kurdish city of Amed (Diyarbakir in Turkish) in Turkey's south-east Sur district from all corners of the city on March 2 to break the three-month siege and curfew by Turkish state forces.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev said in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt on February 11 that a threatened ground invasion of Syria by Western allies Turkey and possibly Saudi Arabia would lead to a βnew world warβ. On February 18, Hawar News Agency reported that βdozensβ of Turkish armoured vehicles had advanced 200 metres across the Syrian border.
Police officers from the Diyarbakir Anti-Terror Department in south-eastern Turkey raided the facilities of football club Amedspor after its 2-1 cup win at Bursapo on January 31.
Left-wing members of the European parliament have called on the European Union to pressure the Turkish government to immediately end its attacks against the Kurdish community in northern Kurdistan (southeast Turkey).
Artillery bombardment of DiyarbakΔ±r neighbourhood of Sur. Photo: Jinhahaber.link.
It is freezing cold in Amed, as the city of DiyarbakΔ±r is known to its residents. More than 10 centimetres of snow blankets the ground, something that happens only every three or four years. And at exactly this moment, fighting is escalating in Amed's old neighbourhood of Sur and in the cities of Cizre and Silopi, in ΕΔ±rnak province.
About 70 people, mainly from the Australian Kurdish Association, organised a peaceful protest inside and outside the ABC Ultimo Centre on January 14. They were protesting against the national broadcaster's bias and slander against the Kurds, despite the Turkish government's attacks on Kurdish areas in Turkey and Syria.
Activists from Turkey's Kurdish lead People's Democratic Party (HDP).
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