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Via Today's Zaman . A man taken into custody on suspicion of theft last week has admitted that he is a hacker working for the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), police investigators said Wednesday. A police search of a computer belonging to R.Ç., 20, who was stopped in Diyarbakır on suspicion of theft, has revealed files containing classified information belonging to institutions including...
"On November 27, 1978 the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was founded in a small village near Diyarbakir." ~ Abdullah Öcalan, War and Peace in Kurdistan . The legend now stretches thirty years, from one person to millions. On this day we give thanks for Abdullah Öcalan and the PKK.
Ankara - Three Turkish soldiers and four Kurdish separatists were killed Wednesday in two separate clashes in eastern and south- eastern Turkey, Turkish media reported Thursday. In the first clash in the Lice region of Diyarbakir province, two soldie...
Ankara - Six teenagers who took part in violent protests last month in the predominantly Kurdish-populated city of Diyarbakir face up to 23 years imprisonment each, the Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. Prosecutors are seeking the lengthy jai...
Ankara - Six teenagers who took part in violent protests last month in the predominantly Kurdish-populated city of Diyarbakir face up to 23 years imprisonment each, the Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. Prosecutors are seeking the lengthy jai...
The agency says another clash near the town of Lice, north of the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, killed two soldiers and four Kurdish rebels. It says four soldiers were wounded in that clash.
... Mr Tekin did what hundreds of Kurds had done before him, he called in the man the locals call "Diyarbakir's Kofi Annan". A 65-year-old former butcher, Sait Sanli has brokered more than 500 deals between feuding families in the past decade, and is determined to stamp out a tradition central to Kurdish society."So much blood is spilt over problems not big enough to fill a walnut shell," says...
Ankara - Four men who kidnapped an Assyrian-Christian priest in south-east Turkey last year were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on Tuesday by a court in the city of Diyarbakir, the Turkish state-owned Anadolu news agency reported. Father Daniel S...
Ankara - Four men who kidnapped an Assyrian-Christian priest in south-east Turkey last year were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on Tuesday by a court in the city of Diyarbakir, the Turkish state-owned Anadolu news agency reported. Father Daniel S...
Six Kurdish teenagers from Diyarbakir town, Turkey, can stand trial for allegedly supporting the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK). If found guilty, they can face up to 20 years in prison.“The group of teenagers was detained during a rally with participation of Prime Minister Erdogan. They burnt a Turkish flag, set cars to fire and threw Molotov cocktails at the guards.In August, 5 Kurdish...
... his programme on 24 July 2007 to talk about his book, in which he described how he was tortured in Diyarbakir prison following his arrest during the September 1980 military coup. Eight months after the programme went out, state prosecutor Ali Çakir decided on his own initiative to bring charges against them before a criminal court in Bakirkoy, a district on Istanbul’s European side.Çakir...
A friend who tried to check this blog from Turkey got the following message (persumably due to me spending too much time eating in several of Stoke Newington's great Kurdish cafes and restaurants): "Bu siteye erişim mahkeme kararıyla engellenmiştir. T.C. Diyarbakır 1. Sulh Ceza Mahkemesi 20.10.2008 tarih ve 2008/2761 sayılı kararı gereği bu siteye erişim engellenmiştir. Access to this web site...
... a change in the cabinet as 'Turkey must cross river of Kurdish woes' By AYŞE KARABAT on Interviews Diyarbakır Chamber of Trade and Industry (DTSO) Chairman Mehmet Kaya says the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is aiming to create a rift within Turkish society. Fast-paced change in the Kurdish issue by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE In Op-Ed I had previously stated that the pro-Kurdish Democratic...
Following the censorship of YouTube, now the widely used site blogger.com has been shut down, reported daily Radikal yesterday. The censorship decision was made by the Diyarbakır Penal Court on Oct. 20. Under Turkish copyright law, blocking is allowed where...
