Arabs. Turkey Set to Invest in Better Relations With Kurds - New York T. No any stateless Kurd will be left in the Middle East. Kurdish name on Turkish ID card - Hurriyet Daily News and Econom. TURKEY tr-national ANKARA – Daily News with wires | 10/26/2009 12:00:00 AM | The Population Registry Office in the Çankaya district of Ankara has allowed a father to give his daughter a Kurdish name written with letters in the Kurdish alphabet. The Population Registry Office in the Çankaya district of Ankara has allowed a father to give his daughter a Kurdish name written with letters in the Kurdish alphabet, according to the daily Hürriyet.
The officer in the registration office wrote the baby girl’s name, Hêvî Jiyan, by using letters î and ê, which are not in Turkish alphabet. “Hêvî means hope and Jiyan means life. When I went to the register office to give a Kurdish name for my daughter, if there had been any problem, I would have left the name part empty,” said Kenan Kırkaya, the father of the baby. “My wife’s name is Newruz and they did not write her name with a ‘w’ at the time. Kurds for years have been complaining that they cannot name their children as they wish. Syrian Kurds Step Up Protests. Turkey: 53 Mayors Are Fined for Backing Kurdish TV - New York Ti. Turkey, Kurds and a World of Silence - Mideast Youth - Thinking. They say that silence can be deafening. This week the atrocities continued against the Kurds in Turkey and despite the footage to prove it, hardly anyone flinched.
The international community remained largely silent, the media didn’t bother doing anything with the pictures or videos, and the headlines continued reporting everything else happening in this world from California to Tibet… Earlier in the week, I had reported about the Turkish forces’ brutality against Kurds who were trying to celebrate the old New year or Newroz holiday. Kurds took to the streets to celebrate the holiday and Turkish officials seized the opportunity to flex their ideological as well as their military muscle as one writer at the Jamestown Foundation put it. (And with all so little being reported, I recommend reading the entire article.)
Unconfirmed numbers were killed, hundreds were injured and hundreds more imprisoned. I’ll leave you with a video that can be seen at the following link. Turkish police clash with Kurds. Bloody clashes have erupted at cities in south-eastern Turkey between police and demonstrators during celebrations of the Nowruz spring festival. More than 130 people were arrested and scores injured in the battles. In the city of Van, police used batons, tear gas and water cannon on protesters who hurled rocks and chanted slogans in support of the PKK Kurdish rebel group.
The unrest follows last month's incursion by Turkey's army into northern Iraq to target the PKK. Thousands of people took part in the demonstration at Van, during which barricades were set up and fires lit in the streets. Molotov cocktails Local police chief Mehmet Salih Kesmez told AP news agency nearly 40 protesters and 15 police officers had been injured. Four, including a police officer, were being treated in an intensive care unit, he said. Clashes, arrests and injuries were also reported in the cities of Hakkari and Siirt. Molotov cocktails were thrown during protests on Friday in Viransehir.