Reading lists for 2020-2021
Dear friends
Patron and friend of Peace in Kurdistan, Dr Jeffrey Miley, lecturer of Political Sociology at Cambridge University has sent us reading lists from his current sociology courses. We are sharing it with supporters because they may help some of you in your studies and attempts to grapple with the challenges confronting the world today.
Ilhan Sami Comak. The Poet Turkey Fears
SPEAK UP, the Turkish human rights platform based in Istanbul, Diyarbakır and Eskişehir, have recently released their interview with İlhan Sami Çomak, the Kurdish poet, unjustly imprisoned since 1994
“Daughters of Smoke and Fire” – Book Review by Patrick Woodcock
Daughters of Smoke and Fire
Ava Homa
Harper Perennial, Toronto, Canada, 2020
ISBN 978-1-4434-6013-2
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Duvar (Film, 1983) Director: Yilmaz Güney (Multi Subtitles)
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İlhan Çomak: When in prison, poetry, too, is confined
http://susma24.com/en/ilhan-comak-when-in-prison-poetry-too-is-confined/
İlhan Çomak: When in prison, poetry, too, is confined
“I have never self-censored my poetry, neither has my poetry ever been censored; to the contrary, I actually hear that many of the officials here, who are obligated to read my poetry, quite like it.” Ayşen Güven from Speak Up Platform spoke to the poet İlhan Çomak, who has been in prison for 26 years, about the prison conditions during the pandemic, the injustice he experienced, and his poems
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