Turkey’s Genocide of the Assyrians Was an Islamist Crime
Just over a century ago this week, Turkish and Kurdish forces invaded land that the Assyrian people had inhabited since antiquity and...
Mardean Isaac | Tablet Magazine
Jan 14, 2018
World’s Eyes on Kosovo Amid Push to Halt War Crimes Court
By Barbara Surk Efforts by Kosovo to suspend a war crimes courtset up to prosecute atrocities committed by ethnic Albanians during their...
New York Times 1
Jan 13, 2018
Turkey: implement Constitutional Court decision to free journalists
A High Criminal Court of Istanbul has defied a Constitutional Court’s ruling that the rights of journalists Mehmet Altan and Sahin Alpay...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 12, 2018
Turkey’s constitutional court orders release of two journalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes today’s constitutional court decision finally ordering the release of two journalists, Mehmet...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 11, 2018
Turkish president, about to visit France, must stop crushing media freedom
As French President Emmanuel Macron prepares to receive a visit from his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Reporters Without...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 4, 2018
Court fees and fear: Bosnia war rape victims struggle
Two decades have passed since the war ended in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but Selma - not her real name - still lives in fear. She is a...
Al Jazeera
Dec 29, 2017
Call for Paper Proposals: Special Issue of Genocide Studies International (12.2)
Genocide & The Kurds The Kurdish-inhabited lands of the Middle East - spanning territories in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey as well as...
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Dec 28, 2017
Yugoslavia Tribunal Leaves Rich Legacy, but ‘Immense’ Challenges Remain
THE HAGUE — Embarrassed by its failure to prevent Europe’s worst atrocities since World War II, the United Nations Security Council...
New York Times 1
Dec 23, 2017
Rohingya crisis brings Turkey and Bangladesh closer
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh [Abir Abdullah/EPA] To most Rohingyataking shelter in makeshift...
Al Jazeera
Dec 22, 2017
Yugoslavia tribunal closes, leaving a powerful legacy of war crimes justice
The court that put Slobodan Milošević in the dock is to be formally dissolved this week after 24 years and 161 indictments. Victims’...
The Guardian
Dec 20, 2017
Turkish PM terms persecution on Rohingya ‘ethnic cleansing’
Terming the atrocities on Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state “ethnic cleansing”, visiting Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim...
Daily Star
Dec 20, 2017
Turkey: nearly 70 journalists on trial in one week
In a new record for the persecution of the media in Turkey, a total of 68 journalists are due to appear in court in four different trials...
Reporters without Borders 1
Dec 7, 2017
