Frederike Geerdink
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Journalist/writer/speaker focused on power structures and those who want to tear them down. Works in Kurdistan and NL. Knows the PKK from the inside.
Slemani and Utrecht
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💥 my
#book
about the
#pkk
, 'this
#fire
never dies', is out at
@LeftwordBooks
! i spent a year with the org in camps, caves and at the frontline, talked to many figters about their aspirations and ideology, lived their daily lives with them. order now! 💥
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Defol Kürdistan'dan.
🔴 Selçuk Bayraktar, Bayraktar TB-2'nin katkılarıyla terörden temizlenen Hakkari Çukurca'da poz verdi.
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BREAKING
i'm deported from the kurdistan region in iraq. i almost crossed the border into northeast-syria when suddenly atmosphere changed, i was put in a car with police and brought to erbil airport, where i'm now. persona non grata. erdoğan's arm is long.
#journalismisnotacrime
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surinamese ceremony to give
#strength
to
@SylvanaBIJ1
, the first black female party leader to enter dutch parliament, official swearing in later today.
#denhaag
@PolitiekBIJ1
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#uganda
opposition leader (whose election victory was stolen by authoritarian president museveni) visits
#kyiv
, now that's what i call international
#solidarity
.
In Kyiv-Ukraine to express solidarity with the Ukranian people and leadership against Russia's war of aggression and occupation.
If the dictators stand by each other, the democrats should stand by each other too. It's dangerous but noble.
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sizi istemiyorlar zaten, asena.
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kemalism and erdoganism are two sides of the same coin. in both systems, democracy is impossible and the kurds are doomed - and women, for that matter. (yes, women too, kemalism = peak patriarchy)
#turkey
or
#t
ürkiye, what's the difference?
Thousands of students at a university festival in Kayseri, in the middle of Anatolia shout in unison: "long live Mustafa Kemal [Ataturk]." For a gov 2 decades in power that wished to replace this ideology with their own, this can't be the expected outcome.
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erdogan says cutting electricity and water to gaza is human rights violation - while he boms power plants and water stations in syria.
he says gaza houses of worship and clinics are hit and everybody is silent - he hit a mosque in makhkur and clinic in syria: world wide crickets.
Erdoğan:
- “Gazze'ye elektrik ve suyun kesilmesi insan hakları ihlalidir.”
- “ABD uçak gemisinin İsrail'de ne işi var? Ne yapmaya geliyor?”
- “İbadethaneler, hastaneler vicdansızca vuruluyor ve kimse bir şey söylemiyor.”
- “Bir şeyi açıklamam gerekiyor. Bugün ABD'nin…
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kurd.
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'special police forces' came to a
#village
in van province to detain a man and this is what happened - it's mind blowing. this is why kurdish
#journalists
are thrown in jail: the realities of
#kurdistan
must remain unseen.
#turkey
Başkale ilçesi Xaşkan Mahallesi’nde K.A adlı yurttaşı gözaltına almak için gelen özel harekat polisleri havaya dakikalarca ateş açtı, duruma itiraz eden kadınları da darp etti
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the racist in charge wins the elections and dutch tv is analyzing it as if it's very normal. "people want stricter policies", "what did the small islamd of vlieland vote?", giggle giggle, wtff. this fucking country and its white supremacy, it's horrendous.
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Meanwhile in
#Van
.
Turkish state is attacking the Kurdish civilians who are protesting against unfair dismissal of Kurdish winner candidate and appointment of AKP loser candidate
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#robosk
î massacre happened today in 2011. 34 border traders, 19 of them underaged, bombed to death by the turkish army. no justice has been done.
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So, things are moving fast. The High Election Board has officially given the mayorship of Van to the AKP candidate, who was *not elected*, after it last-minute (on Friday) revoked DEM Party's Zeydan's right to get elected. Zeydan got 55.5% of the votes, AKP candidate Arvas 27.2%.
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#turkey
attacks civilian infrastructure in
#syria
. this is how the turkish gov utilizes the pkk attack in ankara: it quickly made up that the perpetrators came via syria to justify attacks on civilian infrastructure of the autonomous administration, which it considers terrorist.
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if only turks were as aware of the war crimes committed by their own state as they are of israel's.
Now: Reports of convoy of vehicles “heading to the Kürecik Radar Base” in Malatya, Turkey where US soldiers are stationed.
What are they going to do?
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Pîroz be!
Îro li kolanên Êlihê bi hezaran kesî bi yek dengî Jin Jiyan Azadîyê ye berz kir
Çi serfiraziyek mezin ✌️
#JinJiyanAzadi
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bad, bad developments in
#sanandaj
#sin
ê, kurdistan in
#iran
: heavy crack down against protesters by security forces.
#BREAKING
#Sanandaj
is under heavy gun fire by security forces. Particularly two areas of the city (Baharan, and Ring Road 25)
Human Right groups in Kurdistan warning of another massacre similar to
#Zahedan
#Mahsa_Amini
#IranRevoIution
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'terör tehdidi' söyledi, 'fetö terörü' degil. trt'yi inanmayin, sadece yalanlar paylasiyor.
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horrific footage of azerbaijani soldiers executing armenian prisoners of war in such a brutal manner. won't share it but i saw others ask the necessary question: when will the eu stop to appease brutal regimes who are guilty of war crimes to advance its own agenda?
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#turkey
is killing civilians in
#syria
, both in kurdish- and arab-majority areas that are part of the autonomous administration. it also hit power plants, water installations, clinics and other civilian infrastructure.
#warcrimes
2 children as young as 9&10 have been killed by the turkish army near Ain Issa - 2 other children have been heavily injured.
This airstrike and artillery campaign by the turkish army must be stopped. Everyday more and more civilians in Rojava die at the hands of the turkish army
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dutch 'journalism' in times of a government made shelter crisis for asylum seekers: set up talkshow at the reception center, talk with mostly white people about the people concerned, who are visible behind a fence. this just fucking can't be real - but it is.
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kurdish children forcibly assimilated to be turks. happening right now in the part of
#kurdistan
that's occupied by
#turkey
.
Şırnak'ta
#Se
çilÖğretmen'in bu yaptığı etkinlik Cumhuriyet haftası kapsamında bütün okullarda yapılır/yapılmalı. Pkk'lı alcakların saldırma nedeni; öğretmenleri sindirip, bölgede bu tür etkinliklerin yapılmasına fırsat vermemektir..
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PKK attacks Turkish forces in the Kurdistan mountains all the time, actually. Turkey is invading the lands and trying to occupy it, that's why.
#BREAKING
: Turkish defense ministry says PKK fighters attacked its forces in the Kurdistan Region, killing one soldier and injuring four others - Statement
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erdogan speaks of 'justice' and the crowd starts calling for the death penalty for demirtas. "selo'ya idam." this is horrific. plenty of grey wolves hand signs too of course.
#fascism
#turkey
Während Erdoğan sich bei seiner Siegesrede gerade zum inhaftierten Selahattin Demirtaş geäußert und sagt, dass er ihn niemals freilassen werde, fordert die Menge seine Todesstrafe(!). Im Türkischen: "Selo'ya idam".
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yeşilgöz ile ilgili çok şeyler söyleyebilirsiniz ama 'türk düsmanı' değil. ermeni soykırım vardı tabii ki. babası sendikalıydı, pkk üyesi değildi. ve dilan 'başkan adayı' değil, bir sağ partinin lideridir. sabah yine yalan haber yapıyor.
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it is utterly sad that the authorities in the
#kurdistan
region in iraq are so
#afraid
of a woman with a
#pen
. and for their own local journalists, for that matter, who are being jailed more often than ever.
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i am so incredibly proud that my pen is too sharp for power. but you know what, all of you who write about kurdistan and turkey? sharpen your pens, they can't deport and ban us all. eternal death to both-sides 'journalism'.
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waking up to quite some blood thirst in my timeline of turks who just love love love that their army is bombing kobani, tel rifaat and other places in
#syria
. they just love dead kurds.
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kurdish language teacher in
#amed
teaches kids who chose kurdish as elective course kurdish geographical names. makes sense, right? but no, she is harshly attacked on social media.
not many kids choose this course, there's a lack of teachers and.. stigmatisation.
#turkey
Mizgin Öğretmen Yanlız Değil
Kürtçe öğretmeni Mizgin Yalçın ‘Kürtçe şehir isimleri’ için hedef gösterildi
#Diyarbak
ır'da Kürtçe öğretmenliği yapan Mizgin Yalçın, öğlencilere şehir isimlerini Kürtçe öğrettiği videosu üzerinden hedef gösterildi
Mizgin öğretmen destek istiyor.
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wit privilege mag best benoemd worden
@Nieuwsuur
, zeker als
@wol
de vraag stelt hoe dit kan gebeuren in een van de best bewaakte gebouwen ter wereld. deze 100% witte demonstranten kunnen dit dus doen zonder neergeknald te worden.
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fascists in
#bursa
(west-
#turkey
) gather with torches and sound bombs and fire works in front of hotel where kurdish
#amedspor
players are staying.
#turkey
Bursasporlu taraftarlar,
#Amedspor
’un konakladığı otelin önünde meşale ve ses bombası patlatıyor...
#AmedSporYaln
ızDeğildir
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somebody says: "frederike, if there is no place for you in kurdistan, it is not kurdistan."
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#palestine
demo in
#rotterdam
(and i hope i managed not to include any turkish flags in this pic, sigh).
#ceasefirenow
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hoe oud was jij toen je ontdekte dat 't
#kofschip
een echt soort schip is en geen verzonnen woord om te weten of het voltooid deelwoord met d of t moet? ik 51.
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wat een clusterfuck,
@NOS
. partijen beconcurreren elkaar op islamhaat en dús noemen jullie 'islam' als iets om je zorgen om te maken, 'om zo ons publiek de kans te geven zich erin te herkennen'? zo is de cirkel mooi rond he? waar zit jullie verstand?!
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terrorism police just searched my house, team of 8 guys. they take me to the station now. charge: 'propaganda for terrorist organization'
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leuk
@VPROTegenlicht
, ik mag komen praten bij jullie after-programma over journalistiek in de zwijger maar jullie hebben 0 budget. alleen voor 'performers' is geld. hoe hálen jullie het in je hoofd?! jullie betaald werken, ik voor noppes? zal ik mijn expertise komen 'performen'?
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zie ze zitten met hun stropdassen en militaire medailles, oorlogsmisdaden goedpraten. bij de hitsers van wnl natuurlijk. geen woorden voor, zo smerig.
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#Wan
is messy after two days of protests so the local chamber of architects and volunteers go out on the street to clean up. It's their city, after all, with their mayor and their mess :-) Peak Kurdish movement, this.
Vanlılar protestolar nedeniyle kirlenen şehri TMMOB öncülüğünde gönüllüler ile birlikte bu sabah kentte temizlik çalışması yaptı.
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the turkish flag isn't very stable in kurdistan, but at least it knows where to fall: right on a fascist's head.
🔴 Diyarbakır’da yerel bir kanalın yayınına katılan Süleyman Soylu'nun kafasına canlı yayında bayrak düştü.
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here's the turkish army openly making kids enthusiastic to the army while telling them in school that every turk is born to be a soldier, but tell me again it's the pkk having child soldiers. like i said: want to know turkey? check what they accuse pkk of.
Amasya'da 15'inci Piyade Eğitim Tugay Komutanlığı'nda çocuklarla askerler arasında geçen diyaloglar izleyenler tarafından beğenildi.
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I was under ultra heavy attack of Turkish ultra-nationalists for 3 days. I reported a few of the most dirty death threats to X and all of them were rejected. Weapons, body bags, "we'll come and get you in Utrecht", all of that shit: fine in Elon's gospel. Disgusting.
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hilâl, also one of erdogan's puppet 'journalists'. stoltenberg said 'threat of terrorism', not 'fetö terrorism', you liar. stop your dirty manipulations.
NATO Secretary General stated that “FETO terrorism is high threat on the NATO agenda.”
This is a first and also a good beginning to show Türkiye that our security concerns are taken seriously. Now it’s time to see some concrete steps.
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today, 1937: seyid rıza is taken to court in elazığ, where he would be sentenced to death. he was the leader of the
#resistance
against the state's genocidal campaign against the alevi kurds of
#dersim
, 1937 & 1938. he was hanged, and never forgotten. a
#hero
in kurdish history.
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Violence in
#Belgium
, with
#Turks
attacking
#Kurds
with weapons after hunting them down. I don't doubt
@ScharoMaroof
's account of events: he's reliable, and I know this dynamic between Turkish and Kurdish communities in Europe: Kurds don't provoke, let alone start violence.
Another mob attack by the Turkish fascists in Heusden-Zolder (Belgium)
11 Turkish fascists roam the streets on a manhunt for Kurds, they found 1 elderly Kurdish men and 9 Turkish men brutally attack him.
The men in red, likely also Kurdish intervened and was attacked too
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It’s more correct to say about 150 km wide safe zone and 5 days for the SAA to be deployed to NE Syria.
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henüz belli değil arkadaşlar. sağ partisi vvd'nin lideri olacak, sonra seçimler olacak (kasım ayında), sonra yeni bir koalisyon yapması gerekiyor. (ve dikkat edin: yeşilgöz kesinlikle solcu kürt bir devrimci değildir.)
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selahattin demirtaş's father tahir died. may he rest in peace.
yet again, a political prisoner, or let's say hostage of the turkish state, wasn't able to say a final farewell to a close family member. it is heart wrenching and infuriating.
Selahattin Demirtaş’ın babası Tahir Demirtaş hayatını kaybetti.
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Amed (Diyarbakır) kicks the unelected AKP trustee out by voting for DEM Party, and now celebrates.
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on he bright side: the chance that erdoğan will drone me to smithereens on the way to kobani (because that's where i was going for a big story for a dutch magazine) has decreased to zero.
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this photo is doing the rounds on turkish twitter. defense ministry announced 6 soldiers died in the war against pkk in the mountains in kurdistan ("north of iraq") and this is the home of one of them in a town in tokat, black sea region. the rich order war in which the poor die.
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leftist
#turkish
#journalist
attacked with knives in his home in
#berlin
. he works for artı tv and paper bir gün. he's under observation in hospital, said he won't bow to
#fascism
. geçmiş olsun
@eacarer
!
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incredibly sad news:
#lawyer
ebru timtik, daughter of dersim, has passed away after a hungerstrike and then
#deathfast
of in total 238 days. she wanted a fair trial for all and respect for the rule of
#law
.
#turkey
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tweetlemeden google yap ömer bey. türkiye beni zaten sınır dişi etti, bana karşı bir kampanya hiç gerek yok. sakın ol.
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verschillende vrouwen liggen hier intens onder vuur en ik vind dat gevaarlijk en verschrikkelijk. ze zijn alledrie zo integer als wat, dat weet ik zeker, en hun aanvallers zijn het schuim der aarde. mysogyne, racistische, hitsende klootzakken: brand in de hel.
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Mood.
Seçim İrtibat büromuzun önündeki kutlamaya Karakoçan halkını bekliyoruz ✌🏿
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Soldiers in Şemdinli are terrorizing Kurdish citizens minding their own business in a minibus. The soldiers are harrassing, insulting and threatening them, and shooting in the air. The citizens get angry, one is brave enough to film it. DEM Party MP
@oznurbartin
shared the video.
Bu sabah Hakkari - Şapatan köyünden Şemdinli ilçesine gelmek için hareket eden köy minibüsünü durduran kolluk kuvvetleri, içinde ailelerinde olduğu köylüleri araçtan indirmek istedi. Köylüler GBT kontrolünün araçtan yapılmasını isteyince kolluk kuvvetleri önce hakaret etti…
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#turkey
does this too, writing messages on missiles that are used to kill
#kurds
. the list of similarities between israel and turkey is very, very long.
What is this satanic ritual of writing messages on missiles that will be dropped to kill people and shatter small children’s bodies to smithereens? It’s open to tourists and diaspora too.
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başak demirtaş says that she and her husband and children could have gone abroad before selahattin was arrested because they knew he was going to be jailed, but they decided to stay and continue the struggle with the people. he was jailed in nov 2016.
#kurdistan
#turkey
Başak Demirtaş: İsteseydik şu an yurt dışında olurduk. Selahattin de şu anda tutuklu olmazdı…
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no, he said 'the threat of terrorism', not 'fetö terrorism', you manipulative liars of erdogan's trt. jens stoltenberg would never say 'fetö terrorism', it's quatsch. fetö as a terrorist group only exists in turkey's imagination, nobody recognizes it as such, let alone nato.
NATO chief Stoltenberg:
- President Putin trying to close NATO’s door, we demonstrate that NATO’s door remains open
- Best way of winning minds and hearts is to stand together in addressing all security threats we face both more aggressive Russia but also FETO terrorism
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Locals ask soldiers who are illegally (because not locally registered) coming to vote: "Where are you from?" The Kurdish vote is being stolen today by soldiers illegally voting for AKP.
#elections
#Turkey
#Kurdistan
Kürt kentlerinde taşımalı oylara tepkiler devam ediyor. Bir amcanın sen nerelisin sorusu karşısında konuşamıyor ve yanıt veremiyorlar sadece susuyorlar!
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ik maak me zorgen om extreemrechts, fascisme, islamhaat en racisme,
@NOS
, en om uitholling van de rechtsstaat. waarom staan die niet in het lijstje? omdat de meeste partijen die niet noemen he? waarom? omdat ze willen scoren met islamhaat en de rechtsstaat ze niets kan schelen.
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Kurds in Uludere, Şırnak, on the way to the District Election Board to protest against the illegally cast votes by soldiers yesterday. "We will take what is ours!"
#elections
#Kurdistan
#Turkey
Şırnak Uludere'deki seçim hilelerine karşı halkımız İlçe Seçim Kuruluna yürüyor. Kaçak seçmenlerle irademizi gasp edemezsiniz. Bizim olanı alacağız!
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