Ostali nagrađeni su: Carolyn Hamilton (Children? s Legal Centre, UK,) Gareth Evans (Crisis Group, Belgium) Han Dongfang (China Labour Bulletin, Hong Kong) Bisi Adelye Fayemi (African Women? s Development Fund, Ghana) Joanna Kerr (Association of Women? s Rights in Development, Canada) Paula Ettelbrick (International Gay and Lesbian Commission USA) Kerim Yildiz (Kurdish Human Rights Project, UK, The Corner House group, UK) and Richard Fuller (Blacksmith Institute, USA).

On Thursday, lawmakers in the commission also debated whether the proposal should be widened to allow the Turkish Telecommunications Board to block access to any sites that question the principles of the secular system or the unity of the Turkish state - a reference to websites with information on Kurdish guerilla movement in Turkey.

In another study, Kurdish Jews were found to be close to Muslim Kurds, but so were Ashkenazim and Sephardim, suggesting that much if not most of the genetic similarity between Jewish and Muslim Kurds is from ancient times

At the end of the year, four campaign activists remained in detention without charge or trial - - Ronak Safarzadeh and Hana Abdi, Kurdish women who were detained in Sanandaj in October and November respectively; and Maryam Hosseinkhah and Jelveh Javaheri, who were detained in Tehran in connection with their work editing the campaign ' s website.

The IFJ, which represents two unions of journalists in Iraq, the Iraqi Union of Journalists based in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Syndicate of Journalists, covering news media people in the Kurdish north of the country, says that a full and independent investigation of all killings of journalists at the hands of United States forces during the Iraq conflict must be carried out.

It is said that hundreds of different languages, such as Otesian, Bosnian, Albanian, Kurdish, Castilian, Irish, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Anglo-Frisian, and other Saami, Altai and Slavic languages are spoken in this city.

Moj prijatelj Said, belgijanac, poreklom iz Irana - kurdish protest song

Hassani ' s statements came after two Kurdish feminists in Iran were accused of being members of an armed rebel group and of carrying out subversive activities threatening the security of the state

Over the past two years the country has abolished the death penalty, reformed its civil code, restored civil rights in the Kurdish provinces and lifted the ban of Kurdish broadcasting, all to comply with EU demands

A smattering of small foreign firms have signed contracts to pump oil in the country, mostly in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north.

What are we going to get this time? " Diyari Kurdi, who fought with Kurdish forces opposing the regime of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, in the Kurdish Community Center in London

Pressure in this area has achieved some small gains, but not sufficient to permit full and confident exercise of the Kurdish identity.

For example, the traditional Kurdish new year festival of Nevruz was recognized as a public holiday in 1993, but scores of people attempting street celebrations in Istanbul and other cities were detained and held in police custody for several days, in some cases being subjected to torture and ill-treatment

On March 16, 1988 the people of Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja were decimated by Saddam Hussein ' s arsenal of chemical weapons.

In 1994 alone, more than a hundred people, mainly Kurdish villagers, " disappeared " after being taken into custody by gendarmes or police

Meanwhile, attempts to organize and articulate the Kurdish identity through parliamentary politics have been consistently frustrated.

Since 1971, every party that has explicitly voiced the need to tackle the problems of the Kurdish minority has been closed down as " separatist " under Article 81 of the Law on Political Parties which forbids mention of racial or religious minorities.

Makwan Moloudzadeh, an Iranian Kurdish child offender, was executed in December following a grossly flawed trial for three rapes he allegedly committed at the age of 13, eight years earlier.

Following the arrest of Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers ' Party (PKK) in Italy in November 1998, HADEP buildings were attacked by mobs.

In any case, hundreds of thousands of Kurdish villagers from the southeast have been displaced to shanty-towns throughout Turkey

Nevertheless, the " Kurdish reality " tends to leak through.

Kurdish language music - provided that it is not overtly political - seems to be tolerated, and the army ' s southeastern radio station " Voice of the Tigris " is sufficiently pragmatic, in trying to win the hearts and minds of the local population, to broadcast in the two main Kurdish dialects as well as Turkish and Turkmen.

Interviews in Kurdish in news stories from southeastern Turkey are shown on national television with Turkish subtitles.

Nevertheless, there are no legally operating radio or television stations with an explicitly Kurdish character, and attempts to found such networks have been shut down

In the mid-1980s, in an attempt to isolate those Kurdish communities that were offering tactical support for the PKK, the Turkish government began to arm Kurdish villagers as " provisional village guards. " Although village guards were theoretically set up to defend villages from attack, the Turkish security forces have used them as auxiliaries for raids into neighboring villages.

There is no middle ground for the Kurdish peasant, who is completely trapped between the two sides to the conflict

Police officers told him that he was being subjected to torture because he was " putting out propaganda for the Kurds and working for a Kurdish newspaper.

The name was grossly applied to a widepsread genocide of the Kurdish people.

The large Kurdish town of Qala Dizeh (population 70,000) was completely destroyed by the Iraqi army.

Kurdish sources report the number of dead to be greater than 182,000