RT | December 9, 2015 Ankara carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) forces in northern Iraq, the Turkish army said on Wednesday. The action comes in the wake of rising tensions between Ankara and Baghdad over the deployment of Turkish troops in Iraq. Ten F-16 fighter jets launched an attack between 10pm and […]
By Sinem Adar | Jadaliyya | December 2, 2015 Tahir Elçi, the president of the bar association in southeastern Diyarbakır province and a determined Kurdish human rights lawyer, was shot dead on Saturday, 28 November, during a press statement he had delivered in Diyarbakır. Photos of Elçi’s dead body lying on the ground quickly overwhelmed […]
RT| November 30, 2015 An RT news crew has been caught in a tear gas attack by Turkish police in Diyarbakir. Police responded as Kurds were protesting the killing of a prominent lawyer, Tahir Elci, shot dead by unidentified gunmen while giving a public speech on Saturday. “We came into the city center of Diyarbakir […]
UndercoverInfo | November 20, 2015 The real frontline confronting ISIS is not US or French bombers (the latter currently targeting Raqqa, a city with 140,000 civilians, who are virtual prisoners of ISIS) but the Kurds of Iraq and northern Syria. Just over a week ago the combined Kurd forces, under the command of the Yezidis, […]
Press TV – November 16, 2015 At least one civilian has been killed and four others have been injured in new clashes between Turkish security forces and members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey’s southeastern province of Mardin. Police sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the clashes broke out in the city […]
teleSUR | November 7, 2015 Turkey’s most comprehensive cold case of the historic PKK-state conflict ended with the acquittal of all eight suspects accused of leading a branch of the clandestine gendarmerie group JITEM that reportedly tortured and killed tens of thousands of Kurds in the 1990s. The case began when mass graves were found […]
RT | November 6, 2015 Ankara is worried about possible Kurdish-American collaboration after the backing the Kurds got from Moscow, says Dr. Jamal Wakim, Professor of History and International Relations at Lebanese University. Turkey says it will carry out a military operation against ISIS in the near future, without specifying when. RT: Turkey’s already carrying […]
The October 12, 2015 terror bombing in Ankara, resulting in the death of 127 trade unionists, peace activists, Kurdish advocates and progressives, has been attributed either to the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regime or to ISIS terrorists.
Media censorship was immediate after the bombing in Turkey but indications are it won't take quite as dramatic a catalyst for a similar crackdown in the US.The post Bombing in Turkey: Why Turkish Censorship Matters to You appeared first on The Anti-Media.
The world is standing up to protest against war and corruption. Meanwhile, the corporate media distracts us with meaningless nonsense.The post Hundreds of Thousands Protest Globally Over Weekend, Media Coverage Absent appeared first on The Anti-Media.
