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Abdullah Demirbaş: On Sur & Celebrating Amed’s Diversity

“I wanted everyone to have an education in their mother tongue. I wanted them to be able to learn in Kurdish; oppressed people like Kurds are not allowed to study in their mother tongue. For all those reasons and because of all the projects I began, they [Turkey] wanted to put me in prison for […]

Attack on Amedspor: Why it is Bigger than Football

What do you call a country where athletes risk their life for competing on behalf of an occupied city? To find the answer, we have the football match between Amedspor and Bursaspor on Sunday March 5th at Bursa Metropolitan Stadium (two hours south of Istanbul), which was yet another example of what it means to […]