Konya
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Wildfires inflamed anti-Kurdish sentiment in Turkey / Alin Ozinian
Last week’s forest fires sweeping across the eastern Mediterranean not only showed Turkey’s vulnerability in the fight against global warming and in its climate policies but also the growing tendency to embrace nationalist conspiracy theories.
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Erdogan's anti-Kurdish pogroms – a call for international solidarity
Last Friday afternoon, in the district of Konya in south-central Turkey, seven members of a family were murdered by anti-Kurdish racists in the neighborhood where they had lived for twenty-four years. This, alone, should illicit international condemnation of the attack and solidarity with Kurds in Turkey.
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Main suspect in Turkey Kurdish family murder arrested
The main suspect in the murder of seven members of a Kurdish family in Turkey’s Konya province was arrested on Wednesday, August 4, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.
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Kurdish family Lawyer in Konya receiving death threats
Abdurrahman Karabulut, the lawyer for a Kurdish family, seven of whose members were murdered in the central Turkish province of Konya last Friday, has said he has been receiving death threats for representing the family, the JinNews news agency reported on Tuesday.
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Another Kurdish family attacked, beaten in Turkey
A Kurdish family living in a village in Turkey’s Antalya was attacked by hundreds of people overnight, Mezopotamya news agency reported on Monday.