To be fair to him, this was not what Behrouz Boochani wanted to do when he was growing up in Kurdistan, Iran. But that is pretty much what he is doing right now imprisoned as he is on Manus Island—about 2,000 miles away from the land of his ambitious preoccupation....
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The Suffering of the Kurds
By Kani Xulam March 8, 1997 Historians tell us that when some of the persecuted Jews of Europe fled for the relative safety of...
Half Mast at Atrush
By David Markovich February 6, 1997 August 18, 1992, marked the commencement of a Turkish government military offensive in...
Disappearances – An Alarming Trend
By Kathryn Cameron Porter January 2, 1997 On December 8, 1996, the representatives of the International League for Human Rights,...
The European Parliament Resolution on Turkey
Adopted December 12, 1996 The European Parliament, - having regard to its previous resolutions on Turkey, A. gravely...
An Israeli-Kurdish Conflict
By Robert Olson Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies University of Kentucky The main thrust of the Israel-Turkey...
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...
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...

