Your average Iraqi is 19 years old—so many were not even born when two devastating earthquakes ravaged their country in 1991. The first exploded when the Iraqi Army was routed from Kuwait. In the second, millions of Kurds abandoned their homes and dashed to the...
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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...
Muhammed Was Born 6 Days Too Late
Kani Xulam Saturday, October 19, 1996 The Turkish newspaper headlines read, "twelve," a reference to the number of inmates who...
The Story – Tragedy – of a Turkish Soldier in the Mountains of Kurdistan
By Oktay Yildiz [First appeared in Ozgur Politika, September 1996] "On a rainy Saturday afternoon, we went shopping in the...
A Washington Arrest
By David A. Korn June 1, 1996 First came the sound of shattering glass. Then the office door burst open and a dozen beefy men,...
Mrs. Clinton at Topkapi Palace
By Kani Xulam March 26, 1996 Hillary Rodham Clinton is on a tour of five countries for ten days. Among the places she is...
Who Committed The Guclukonak Massacre?
By Bernice Rubens The dire sufferings of the Kurdish people are largely unknown in this country. In Turkey, a country not overly...
Turkey’s War Crimes
By Kani Xulam January 28, 1996 Just a few weeks ago, "The European", a weekly newspaper published in London, England, had a...