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By Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: The President of the Law Society of England and Wales, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, recently sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, relating to her concerns about the deteriorating conditions for lawyers in Turkey who are being criminalised in the course of the undertaking their professional duties….
Hosted by the Law Society: Date: Wednesday, 20 February, 17.30-20.00 Venue: The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL This seminar of the Law Society, arranged in conjunction with Human Rights Watch, will bring together international and Turkish lawyers. Speakers include Emma Sinclair Webb, author of the Human Rights Watch report, Professor Francoise Hampson of…
By Shwan Dizayee: It’s funny how a group of letters, which make up a name, can spark so many memories, stories, tragedies, joy, and change the course of so many lives: some for better, some for worse, some long term and some short. Saddam Hussain The reason for me being here today. All things happen…
Date: Friday 15th February 2013 Time: 1-2 pm Venue: 23 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6LB (Nearest tube station: Victoria) The Freedom Umbrella group is organising a protest outside the London office of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to mark the second anniversary of the deadly attack by militiamen on unarmed demonstrators in the city of Suli. Bookmark on Delicious…
By Shivan Fazil: Obviously, there are perceived cultural differences between the two. In this article I highlight the differences that I have experienced as a resident in the UK. Referring to Edward Hall, the American anthropologist, who classifies culture as high context and low context, I will try to compare them with regard to context, interpersonal…
Peace in Kurdistan press release: A successful meeting was held on Tuesday 27 November in Portcullis House, Westminster, hosted by Hywel Williams MP and attended by Mary Glindon MP, Pat Doherty MP, and Lord Rea. A considerable number of MPs also sent messages of support. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet…
By Peace in Kurdistan: The following new Early Day Motion (EDM), entitled ‘Media Freedom in Turkey’, has been tabled in the UK Parliament : Turkey’s media crackdown and the disproportionate targeting of Kurdish or pro-Kurdish media has been receiving more and more attention from international NGO’s and activists. In particular, the Committee for the Protection of…
By Kurdish Academic Forum: You are cordially invited to the ‘Kurds in the Changing Middle East Conference’ which will be held at the The School of Oriental and African Studies on 17-18 November. Among speakers are Salih Muslim, the leader of the PYD, Gultan Kışanak, co-chair of the BDP and Peace Negotiator Brian Currin. The Middle…
Press Release: “The hunger strikes constitute an indication that the Kurdish issue has reached an intolerable level!” – Metin Bakkalci, head of the Human Rights Foundation in Turkey Demonstrate outside 10 Downing St, London: 12 noon Wed 24th Oct 2012. Hundreds of Kurdish political internees, incarcerated for campaigning for Kurdish rights in Turkey are on day 43 of possibly…
By Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: The Plaid Cymru annual conference, meeting on the weekend of 14th-15th September, has passed an emergency motion calling for the immediate release of Abdullah Ocalan, an end to Turkish military operations and the resumption of peace talks between Turkey and the Kurds. This is the first time that a leading British political…
KT News: “If lawyers can’t do their job for fear of arrest, that’s a country with no democracy or rule of law and a pariah among the nations of the world”. Human rights barrister Margaret Owen OBE last night addressed a well-attended London meeting of British lawyers and others opposed to Turkey’s mass political show…
By Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: Date: Tuesday 18 September 2012 Time: 6.30-8.30pm Place: Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ (nearest tube: Holborn) Chaired by: Prof Bill Bowring, Birkbeck College, President of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH) and International Secretary of the Haldane Society of Socialist…
By Harem Karem: In an article, entitled ‘Justice for Iraqi Kurds’, published on the Huffington Post on 2 July, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) foreign minister began with a familiar phrase, ‘Kurdistan is booming’, so often used by short-sighted foreign businessmen – followed by a barrage of colourful words. But the minister misleads readers because this so-called…
By Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: A recent UK parliamentary delegation to Ankara has published a report on their findings. Jeremy Corbyn MP, Lord Hylton and Jill Evans MEP spent two days in Ankara at the invitation of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), meeting with Kurdish and Turkish representatives from the Grand National Assembly and a…
News and Comment by The Kurdistan Tribune: Dana Ahmed Majid’s conduct as the governor of Sulaymani (from 2005 to 2009) was twice censured by the audit office: For using public money for his office and close aides and for mismanaging money allocated to tackle the drought that hit the Sulaymani region’s countryside. These reports were…
