Since 1940, Turkey has erased the original names of 12,700 villages and places.
• 4,200 Greek / Pontic Greek
• 4,000 Kurdish (Kurmanji or Zazaki)
• 3,600 Armenian & Hemshin
• 500 Georgian & Laz
• 400 Syriac.
#Turkey
#Kurdistan
The courages fighters of Rojava, the
#YPG
&
#YPJ
were at the forefront of the fight against ISIS. They were also the most committed in supporting and protecting the terrorised Yezidi community and continue to rescue kidnapped Yezidi girls and women. We owe much to their courage.
From
#Mehabad
to
#Kobane
the Kurdish people, the Center of democracy and human rights, defeated ISIS, the same people who gave you
#WomenLifeFreedom
are being massacred by Turkey and Iran! Stand in solidarity! Don’t let regimes of terror win!
Turkey has the death and blood of thousands of
#Kurds
on its hands. For decades it has murdered, massacred, executed, displaced and ethnically cleansed the Kurds from their ancient lands. Enough is enough! Turkey MUST be stopped. Be our voice and demand:
#NoFlyZone4RojavaNow
On this day
#kobane
was liberated by the courages YPG-YPJ from ISIS scum, backed by Turkey. Almost a decade on Turkey continues to push ISIS’ agenda of ethnic cleansing of Kurds in the region. Yet a small group of people showed that another democratic and humane world is possible
Murdered in cold blood for the crime of speaking Kurdish. Turkey ethnically cleanses us, displaces us, denies us, silences us, steals our culture, language, history and identity at every turn as it constantly bombs us and calls us terrorists. Boycott travel to Turkey!
Every time Erdogan bombs or attacks
#Rojava
he empowers and increases the likelihood of an ISIS revival. Rojava still remains as the only force controlling and keeping
#ISIS
resurgence back. If Rojava falls ISIS emerges again and you can thank NATO’s Turkey for that gift!
We are not safe anywhere. Fascist Turks will attacks Kurds with impunity and get away with it. After all for over a century their government has been slaughtering Kurds to total global silence. The west has continued to protect Turkish fascism against the Kurds too.
Take my culture, my art, my music, my poetry, my dance. Take my artists, my youth, my children, my mountains and my land. Murder me. Again and again. Still we rise. Still we sing. Still we dance. Still we are Rojava and Rojhelat, Bakur and Basur. Still we are “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi”!
It is an absolute travesty what the Turkish and jihadist occupation of Afrin has done since their invasion of the region in 2018. NATO member Turkey is creating a jihadist infested region after ethnically cleansing Kurds from Afrin and offering emptied Kurdish homes to terrorists
32 years in prison for the crime of existing as a kurd and calling for basic Kurdish rights in Turkey. Thousands of Kurds like Yashar languish across Turkish prisons for decades.
Erdogan’s hypocrisy is on full display.
#Turkey
’s air strikes and constant bombardements of
#Rojava
have left millions without water, gas or electricity, NGOs are leaving IDP camps, schools and hospitals have been bombed and thousands are facing an epidemic.
“Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” the Kurdish slogan raised in mass protests following the brutal S.A and murder of a female doctor in
#India
. The
#Kurdish
struggles for freedom has shown the world that a society will never truly be democratic or free if its women are oppressed and terrorised.
A full ground invasion has been launched by Turkey in Southern Kurdistan. 300 tanks, an extra 1000 ground troops have entered the region in the past 10 days. What are they doing there other than ethnic cleansing, terrorising civilians and villagers, and ecological violence?
In the winter of 1916, Turkish officials forced 700,000 - 1,000,000
#Kurds
on a death marche from Bakur (northern
#Kurdistan
) to central and western Anatolia. More than half of this number perished during this process. Very little to nothing is written about this dark period.
A Kurdish slogan which
#Kurdish
women are dying for every single day has been appropriated by the
#Persian
elite to represent their racist, exclusionary capitalist propaganda. Revolutions do not occur in ballgowns, they occur in the blood drenched cities by the oppressed!
It's been my pleasure collaborating with award-winning fashion designer
@CSiriano
for the
#AcademyAwards
.
The custom-made “Woman Life Freedom” gown is championing the women of Iran.
Thank you Christian for your creative vision and for your support. 🙏🏼❤️
#Oscars
Another example of settler colonialism towards the Kurds. Afrin was a Kurdish region with a population of over 400000 occupied by Turkey and allied jihadists in 2018. Now a number of “charities” are building settlements so that invading jihadists and their families can settle.
Escaping Anfal we lived in Iran for years in refugee camps, in poverty, without IDs while my father was arrested and tortured for being a Kurd and peshmerga. Iran imprisons, tortures, massacres, executes Kurds. It bombs us and still has a fatwa against us Kurds. Iran is our enemy
The Kurdish response to the Grey Wolves ✌️we will prevail as we have done so far despite their fascism, despite their endless oppressions, despite their murder of our culture, our language, our identity and history. We will prevail because the right to exist is inalienable.
Never forget that
#JinJiyanAzadi
was born from decades of the struggles of
#Kurdish
women against oppressive colonial, state & conservative traditions in the societies we live in. Never forget that the bravery & resilience of Kurdish women gave birth to this revolutionary slogan.
Turkey kills our journalists and calls THEM terrorists. Turkey burns our forests and calls THEM terrorist lands. Turkey bombs Kurdish civilians and calls THEM terrorists. Turkey ethnically cleanses the Kurds and calls THEM terrorists.
WHO is the real terrorist?!?
The Kurds are leading the resistance against the Iranian regime. For us Kurds it’s not just about religion or hair but life! The right to live and exist with all the colours of our Kurdishness. The Kurds of
#Sanandaj
are leading that resistance.
#IranianProtests2022
13th of July 1930. 40,000 massacred. Their crime? Being Kurds who rebelled against the Turkish regime, demanding Kurdish rights and refusing to be subjugated to the racist policies of the Turkish regime. Kurdish history is rife with such massacres.
Our resistance is legitimate.
If you want to understand how the Iranian regime treats the Kurds you can start here. From fatwas against us to massacres, to executions, to imprisonment and torture this regime only wants the annihilation of the Kurds.
#JinJiyanAzadi
Watch nothing happen and no one do anything and no international outcry and complete and utter silence while Kurds in four parts of Kurdistan live under the terrorist threats of Turkish and Iranian bombardments.
#Breaking
: U.S. Officials confirm a ballistic missile attack near the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, Northern Iraq, was directly launched by the IRGC from Iranian territory.
The reality of the double speak, the hypocrisy, the use of immense and disproportionate violence against the oppressed, the dispossessed, the stateless and the wretched of the earth by
#NATO
and its members.
#Kurdistan
Another woman activist murdered in cold blood by Turkish terrorists in Kirkuk. Turkey is terrified of the courage and strength of Kurdish women so targets them disproportionately in street executions across south Kurdistan. Naturally total silence from human rights organisations.
They can never sentence freedom or the will of the people. They can sentence bodies to prison but the hope of freedom will never die. So long as Turkish state fascism continues and imprisons our Kurdish leaders we will never give up on the dream of liberation.
The cost of liberating the world from the evil clutches of ISIS has been devastating for the
#Kurds
. More than 12,000 lives were lost in the fight against terrorism. And the world responded by betraying the Kurds and allowing
#Turkey
to invade, bomb and ethnically cleanse them.
No matter how many times
#Turkey
attacks, bombs, murders and massacres the brave Kurds of
#Rojava
, no matter how many ethnic cleansings occur, how many attempts to eradicate life, the will and courage of these brave women remains unconquerable!
@brollbenny
@BlackRadAnarcho
Women in Rojava fighting ISIS and defeating them spectacularly have proven this false. Women can fight and often better than men.
Another Kurd murdered. Iran has one of the highest rates of executions globally, with at least 55% of yearly executions being Kurds. But the numbers are much higher as secret hangings occur with impunity, no limits or fears of repercussions. The world remains conspicuously silent
A list of massacres that the “democratic” Turkish state has enacted against minorities including the Kurds. A state built on genocide can only uphold a genocidal ideology and identity.
Occupied. Militarized. Terrorized. This is the situation of occupied Kurdistan under Turkish rule. Any expression of Kurdish identity and calls for basic rights face extreme and disproportionate violence by the Turkish state. Why are we being arrested for celebrating Newroz???
The invaders, the colonizers will never love the land as we do. Every tree cut down is a stab at the heart of our Kurdishness. Every mountain razed is the death of memory and history. They destroy our ancient forests and sacred mountains in the hopes of destroying us.
Over 1000 bombings & attacks causing mass environmental devastation, displacement, injuries and killing of innocent civilians and not a single condemnation/efforts to prevent Turkey’s ongoing terrorism towards southern Kurdistan. How long must we live under this reign of terror?
The only way to treat fascists and the only appropriate response to neo-nationalists who attack innocent civilians their regime displaced from their homes.
We remember you, wildflower of my scorched homeland. We remember you daughter of Kurdistan, symbol of our murdered freedom. We remember you ever arriving bride of our ancient mountains. My scortched land, my ancient mountains, and even freedom itself, weeps at the loss of you.
The Turkish state only exists when it is slaughtering, murdering, displacing, bombing, imprisoning and terrorising Kurds. It only exists as a state of violence and oppression. Kurds and other minorities will never have basic rights under terrorist regimes. Freedom is the only way
Erdogan will never accept that the Kurds of
#Rojava
eradicated ISIS which he supported, armed and gave anti-Kurdish intelligence to AND that they have managed to create the most radically democratic, inclusive, women friendly region in the Middle East- so he aims to bomb it away.
Please only donate to Kurdish aid organisations. Historically non Kurdish organisations do not spread funds to Kurds. We recommend Heyva Sor. 🙏
#earthquake_turkey
#Turkey
We have a right to safety, to protection, to peace. We have the right not to be massacred, ethnically cleansed and have modern day Turkish pogroms imposed on our communities for celebrating our Kurdish culture! Every day it is clearer that Turkey has always been the terrorist.
Turkey will now allow any sort of Kurdish power or political gains. 100s of Kurdish mayors and democratically elected MPs and members of pro-Kurdish parties are languishing in jail. Demirtaş is facing 142 years in jail. Turkey is an undemocratic, fascist, racist regime.
Since the start of May Iran has executed 25 Kurds. Iran continues to terrorise minorities like Kurds and Baluch people in order to maintain its authoritarian control. In the face of this overwhelming levels of oppression the Kurds have every right to resist terrorist regimes.
Despite state imposed violence and abuses during the elections, the pro-Kurdish DEM party has regained major ground including in Amed, Elih, Van, Colemerg, Batman, Mardin and more. The election of female mayor of Elih resulted in proud chants of
#JinJiyanAzadi
✌️✌️✌️
Violence by Turkish fascists and Grey Wolves continues against Kurds and Kurdish business and properties. The Grey Wolves are an ultra-nationalist, far right paramilitary organization and responsible for a spate of murders and massacres both in Turkey and abroad.
The scorched earth policy implemented by Turkey is intended to continue the ethnic cleansing and displacement policies it has enacted against the Kurds for decades. The systemic violence used against the Kurds involves widespread ecological destruction, and it must be condemned!
Many Kurdish artists, intellectuals and activists murdered, tortured or disappeared by the ever present violence of the Turkish state. Our existence as Kurds is terrifying to them because they are the colonizers to our indigenous, oppressors to our rooted connection to the land.
“The tide said to the fisherman:
There are many reasons
why my waves are in a rage.
The most important is
that I am for the freedom of the fish
and against
the net.”
― Kurdish poet Sherko Bekas, ‘Storm tide’
Biden's $20 billion sale of new F-16 jet fighters to
#Turkey
actually includes:
-40 new aircrafts & kits to overhaul 79 existing F-16 fleet
-900 air to air missiles, and
-800 Bombs.
There is no surprise for many of us as to where these weapons will go and who will be targeted.
Jina is an activist & journalist who was previously arrested during the
#JinJiyanAzadi
protests. Now she’s been rearrested & sentenced to 21 years for conspiring to over throw & propaganda against the regime. As if there is any other choice but to resist this terrorist regime!
There is ample evidence and reports that continuously showed a link between Turkish ultra nationalists and ISIS. There is significant evidence that the Turkish regime actively and unashamedly supported ISIS in its murderous rampage against the Kurds, Yezidis, Armenians and others
Turkish state brutality against Kurdish children is a daily occurrence. The lives of our children are politicised and criminalised, then they are punished for having the courage to protest the Turkish state’s brutality towards them. Is it any wonder so many turn to the mountains?
All these incredible Kurdish women activists/human rights defenders have been shot, assassinated or bombed by Turkish drones or thugs. Turkey’s war on the Kurds is also gendered and women are disproportionately targeted by this fascist regime. We have yet to see justice for them!
A nation’s strength is derived from the courage of its women. Since time itself
#Kurdish
women have always led the struggle for freedom. To let history forget this fact is an act of great betrayal.
Racism is deeply ingrained in the psyche of Turkish people. Imagine beating and terrorising a refugee child in public and so shamelessly. When your government spends decades and millions indoctrinating citizens with racial superiority values this is the inevitable ugly outcome.
Racism is deeply engrained in the psyche of the Turkish state and the Turkish people. Hatred towards minorities is normalised, promoted and encouraged across all spheres of life. A two game ban is a joke, insulting and will do nothing but further reinforce racist sentiment
Our history as Kurds is one of never ending struggle for basic rights and recognition. One of never ending massacres and ethnic cleansing against us. Thousands of our best and brightest executed, murdered in the streets, imprisoned, tortured and hanged. History repeats every day.
What Turkey has done in Rojava is beyond criminal and constitute war crimes. From regular bombardments to destroying thousands of acres of farmland, cutting water flow to the region, targeting essential infrastructure like water and electricity plants- Turkey has done it all.
Rojava deserves peace, justice and freedom after it defeated
#ISIS
and liberated the world from these horrific terrorists. It deserves respect and humanity and not Turkish bombs and ethnic cleansing so. Save Rojava, stop Turkey.
#NoFlyZone4RojavaNow
After waiting 8 yrs in a Norwegian refugee camp, Nourzad Alimoradi, a Kurdish political asylum seeker has been deported back to Iran. In fear of returning to the state of terror he set himself on fire in protest. Imagine how desperate and terrified you must be as Kurd to do this.
Why does the global community remain silent as Turkey murders, ethnically cleanses, terrorises Kurds across the region of south, west and northern Kurdistan. Turkey’s invasion of south Kurdistan, constant bombardments and displacement of civilians goes completely uncriticised.
Rojava is the symbol of resistance against extremism, and hope and humanity in a region shattered by war and conflict. The world must ask itself: “what can we learn about resolving protracted conflicts from the Kurdish experiments on democracy and pluralism.”
#Rojava
#Kurdistan
They keep killing Life across Kurdistan. They keep killing our children, our youth, our future! They kill our mothers and fathers, sons and daughters. They keep killing and killing and killing and the world remains silent, sides with our murderers and calls us terrorists!
Shame on France!!! Turkey is one of the most dangerous states for Kurds. Many of these Kurds have fled Turkish state persecution and violence and arrived as refugee in France only to be handed over again to terrorist Turkey. The lives of every single one is in imminent danger!
This is very important. In Bakur of
#Kurdistan
more than 12,000
#Kurdish
named cities, villages, regions and districts have been Turkified alone. Knowing and using the Kurdish names of places is important in reclaiming our colonized and stolen culture and identity.
When you refuse to acknowledge the Kurdish roots of
#JinJiyanAzad
î then you are erasing the revolutionary labor, love and sacrifices of these women! Otherwise you are reproducing the same colonial politics towards the Kurds as the Iranian regime.
#JinaAmini
Turkish ultra right neo-nationalist group Grey Wolf supporters are indicating direct cooperation with key government officials in their ongoing pogrom towards the Kurds across Belgium. Europe continues to be actively complicit with ongoing human rights violations against Kurds.
Reminder that this is the reality of thousands of Kurdish women across Turkish occupied north
#Kurdistan
. All political prisoners must be freed including minors.
#FreeDemirta
ş
Turkey uses the excuse of fighting the PKK to systemically destroy South Kurdistan and its ancient forests and mountains. Meanwhile the PKK is fighting to protect the land, plants thousands of trees yearly, and has an ideology of liberation founded on ecological sustainability…
A
#NoFlyZone4Rojava
is the only way to stop Turkey’s incessant bombings, drone strikes and air strikes on
#Rojava
. A no fly zone is the easiest policy the international community can implement and the simplest way to ensure the safety and security of the people of Rojava.
Erdogan bombed
#Rojava
while they fought ISIS, invaded & occupied
#Afrin
in 2018, Sere Kanye in 2019 in the guise of a 'safe zone'. Now these latest devastating airstrikes. Yet the SDF have not attacked or thrown SINGLE mortar towards Turkish territories. So who is the terrorist?
The Kurds, forever refugees on an endless, nightmarish loop of ethnic cleansing, genocide, displacements and bombings with generation after generation traumatized and re-traumatized by war and anti-Kurdish violence and hatred.
A reminder of where “Women, Life, Freedom” originated from. There is a reason it’s
#JinJiyanAzadi
and that’s because of decades of state sponsored violence and terrorism of
#Kurds
across Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria which has always included horrific gender based violence.
The ongoing criminalisation of Kurdish identity in Iran. Where is justice for Kurds? Where is basic human rights? Where is international outrage over our mutilated bodies, our silenced and disappeared bodies, our murdered and our imprisoned? All we ever hear is silence!
A reminder on the second anniversary of the death of
#JinaAmini
that the slogan that became the revolutionary sound of protest against her death is KURDISH. It is Kurdish. It is based on decades of oppression of Kurdish women against colonizers, oppressors and invaders!
Mahsa Amini. Her colonizer’s name for her. Not her Kurdish name which her mother screamed on her still fresh grave. Not Jina, not the Kurdish woman, not the non-Persian, not the long oppressed minority and radicalized woman from whose blood the Iranian fascists are profiting from
Despite military-police violence and ongoing arrests the brave Kurdish people of Colemerg continue to take to the streets and protest the unlawful removal of their mayor. It is essential to keep an eye on the situation and stand in solidarity with the protestors.
#FreeKurdistan
Turkey is illegally occupying Northern Kurdistan, Rojava of Kurdistan and Southern Kurdistan. Turkey is an occupying entity who has bombed, ethnically cleansed, and burned down Kurdish regions, homes and environments for decades. The human and ecological costs have been immense.
Heartbroken. Devastated. Angry and mute. Iran executes and bombs Kurds. Turkey bombs and ethnically cleanses and the world remains silent. The silence is so loud and it speaks of the world’s apathy and shame.
#StopExecutionsInIran
#FreeKurdistan
art by Delawer Omer.
These are the Kurdish women helping to remove mines placed by ISIS in South Kurdistan, Northern Iraq trained by Mines Advisory Group. So courage and brave; but also why aren’t the NGOs paid $$$ doing this dangerous work? Training locals is important but ppl have suffered enough.
According to
@Hengaw_English
out of the 74 people executed in January 34 were Kurds, 7 were Azeri and 5 were Baluch. The Kurds make up 46% of the total executed only in the month of January in Iran.
Disney+ has been forced to cancel the release of a series celebrating the Turkish genocidal dictator Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of Turkey, due to the efforts of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) in the US.
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Just as
#Rojava
managed to defeat ISIS when no one believed they could, just as they build a radical democracy when it was facing an existential threat from dozens of terrorist organisation so too shall Rojava overcome
#Turkey
’s hate and fascism. Rojava will never die!
Wherever Turkey’s destructive hand reaches across Kurdistan there is brutality and bombardments. Turkey is an occupying, colonizing, brutal oppressor that is responsible for dozens of massacres, ethnic cleansings, pogroms, genocides across Basur, Bakur and Rojava of Kurdistan.
As the
#Kurds
continue to suffer the international community continues to turn the other way. From
#Rojava
being bombed to
#Rojhelat
being massacred the Kurds continue to lead the way towards democracy and freedom.