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Syria's Kurds and relations with Turkey
28/02/2013 - World news explained

Syria's Kurds and relations with Turkey

With the latest Friends of Syria group, which includes Turkey, due to meet later today in Rome, the position of one of Syria's largest minorities, the Kurds, has become clearer.

Neshtiman - Musical encounters of the Kurdish kind
24/02/2013 - World music matters

Neshtiman - Musical encounters of the Kurdish kind

The Kurdish community is spread over four different countries - Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. Because of the fragmented nature of Kurdistan, its music is not very well known.

17/02/2013 - France - Kurds - Turkey

Kurds demonstrate in Strasbourg for Ocalan, Paris murder victims

Over 10,000 Kurds demonstrated in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Saturday, demanding the release of Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan and accusing France of dragging its feet in solving ...

17/02/2013 - France - Turkey

Franco-Turkish student to return to France after conviction for terror propaganda

A Franco-Turkish student arrested after joining a May Day parade in Istanbul last year is expected to be back in France as early as Wednesday.

21/01/2013 - France - Turkey

Suspect in Paris killing of three Kurdish activists before Judge

An associate of three female Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris appears in court on Monday for a hearing in connection with the triple murder, judicial sources said.
 

12/01/2013 - France - Turkey

Turkish PM Erdogan demands Hollande explains meetings with murdered Kurdish activist

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tauuip Erdogan challenged French President François Hollande to explain why he had “regularly” met one of the three Kurdish activists killed this ...

11/01/2013 - France - Turkey

Kurdish Separatist PKK says France responsible if Paris killers not found

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said on Friday that it would hold France responsible if it does not quickly establish who killed three female Kurdish activists in Paris.

11/01/2013

French press review 11 January 2013

Two topics stand out in today's French press.

Kurds killing
11/01/2013 - World news explained

Kurds killing

Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, yesterday condemned the killing of three Kurdish women activists in Paris, calling the murders a "summary execution." The co-founder of ...

10/01/2013 - France - Turkey

Three Kurdish women activists 'executed' in Paris

French anti-terrorist police are searching for the murderer of three Kurdish women activists, shot dead in Paris on Wednesday.

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