By Robert Olson Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies University of Kentucky The main thrust of the Israel-Turkey Defense Pact seems to be directed against the Kurdish nationalist movement in the Middle East and particularly against the PKK in Turkey. The...
The Turkish National Security Council Okayed the Death Squads
By Ismet Berkan Monday, December 9, 1996 Radikal (There are a number of inaccuracies in this piece. One thing is quite clear: he cites documents to discredit his Turkish subjects but he relies relies on complete hear-say to do the same with the Kurdish side of his...
Remembering Leyla Zana
By Kani Xulam December 5, 1996 December 8, 1996 will mark the second anniversary of Leyla Zana’s formal imprisonment in Turkey’s Ankara Closed Prison. She was arrested by police in the Turkish parliament on March 5, 1994, after her mostly Turkish...
An Accident Reveals the Complicity of Turkish State with the Mafia
By Kani Xulam Tuesday, November 12, 1996 It was a luxurious Mercedes Benz. There were four passengers in it. One was a Kurd. The other three were Turks. One of the three was a woman. One of the other two a fugitive. The last person was the president of a Police...
How To Kill A Political Party
Kani Xulam Tuesday, October 22, 1996 Today, October 23, 1996, the Turkish State Security Court will open its trial in Ankara of 41 members of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party, HADEP. Nuh Mete Yuksel, the prosecutor for the Turkish government,...
Kani Xulam
A native of Kurdistan, Kani Xulam is a commentator on the history and politics of Kurdistan, and advocates for the right of the Kurdish people to self-determination.
He is the director of the American Kurdish Information Network.
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