Reflections on 2023 Turkish Elections, Post-Earthquake Bakur and the Kurdish Movement
The following is an interview we conducted with Katka and Hazel, who both live in the UK and were recently back from Bakur, the portion of Kurdistan within the borders of Turkey. For 2 hours the guests speak about the political violence from Erdogan’s ruling AKP, suppression of the Kurdish movement, electoral strategies, democratic confederalism, political prisoners and the F-Type prisons in Turkey, the earthquakes from earlier in the year, widespread corruption and other topics. We hope you enjoy this conversation,. A transcript of this interview will be available in the near future. You can reach the guests at BakurDelegationUK at riseup dot net
A few links related to the chat:
- Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê – Kurdish Red Crescent : https://www.heyvasor.com/en/
- The Kurdish Women’s Movement by Dilar Dirik (we interviewed in 2014: p1, p2)
- The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics book
- 14th July film about resistance in Turkish prisons (requires youtube signin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw64OUb2pkU