Overview
The Roboski massacre (Kurdish: Komkujiya Roboskî), also known as the Uludere airstrike, took place on December 28, 2011, near the Iraq-Turkey border, when the Turkish Air Force bombed a group of Kurdish civilians who had been involved in smuggling gasoline and cigarettes, killing 34. According to a statement of the Turkish Air Force the group were mistakenly thought to be members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). These killings and their aftermath were rooted in Turkey's ongoing repression of its Kurdish population.
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Author: Frederike Geerdink
Publisher: Gomidas Institute
Imprint: Gomidas Institute
ISBN: 9781909382190
ISBN 10: 1909382191
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 September 2015
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Format: Paperback
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The Roboski massacre is not a unique atrocity in the history of Kurds in Turkey. However, while such crimes were easily concealed in the 1990s, in the case of Roboski the Turkish state was caught red-handed, largely because of better news coverage through the internet and social media... In spite of the publicity, those who were responsible for the massacre have still not been brought to justice... The Turkish state tradition of solving burning issues with sheer violence and deception remains part of political norm. --Eren Keskin, human rights' lawyer Kurds who oppose assimilation and stand up for their national identity and values are destroyed in different ways... they are destroyed in armed clashes, in forced exile, or in their homes and places of work, as in Roboski. --Ismail Besikci, sociologist and human rights' activistFrederike Geerdink is one of those courageous Dutch journalists who do their work in dangerous conflict zones. (...) Her book became both a political and a beautiful personal account of the struggle for self determination in Turkish Kurdistan. --From jury report, Brusse Prize for best journalistic book of 2014
The Roboski massacre is not a unique atrocity in the history of Kurds in Turkey. However, while such crimes were easily concealed in the 1990s, in the case of Roboski the Turkish state was caught red-handed, largely because of better news coverage through the internet and social media... In spite of the publicity, those who were responsible for the massacre have still not been brought to justice... The Turkish state tradition of solving burning issues with sheer violence and deception remains part of political norm. --Eren Keskin, human rights' lawyer Kurds who oppose assimilation and stand up for their national identity and values are destroyed in different ways... they are destroyed in armed clashes, in forced exile, or in their homes and places of work, as in Roboski. --İsmail Beşikci, sociologist and human rights' activistFréderike Geerdink is one of those courageous Dutch journalists who do their work in dangerous conflict zones. (...) Her book became both a political and a beautiful personal account of the struggle for self determination in Turkish Kurdistan. --From jury report, Brusse Prize for best journalistic book of 2014
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"Frederike Geerdink is a Dutch freelance journalist who reported on Kurdish issues in Turkey's south-eastern province of Diyarbakır between 2012 and 2015, before being deported by the Turkish authorities. She continued her journalistic work and studies and produced her second book, ""This Fire Never Dies,"" first released in the Netherlands in 2018, and as an English translation 2021, deals with her time with PKK. She is currently the editor of the on-line weekly report, Expert Kurdistan."
