A day in the life of Abdullah Demirbas, the pro-Kurdish mayor of the Sur district in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir.
Life After Prison: Kurdish Stone-Throwing Kids
Pulitzer Center grantee Jenna Krajeski talks about how she became interested in the Kurdish "stone-throwing kids"--children imprisoned as adults under Turkey's harsh anti-terror laws.
Diyarbakır’s 1.5 million Kurdish residents are isolated from western Turkey; they are dismissed, vilified, feared. Now they are on TV.
Kurdish mayors lead hunger strike in an effort to promote peaceful negotiation, not violence.
Sumer Park is a political and cultural center for Diyarbakir's disenfranchised, offering alternatives to Kurdish youth.
What does the gentrification of an Istanbul neighborhood mean for its Kurdish population?
Diyarbakir prison, a site notorious both for its torture of Kurds and for laying the groundwork of the modern Kurdish resistance, will soon be turned into a museum--but not without controversy.
The recent earthquake in Turkey devastated Van, a center of Kurdish resistance to the Turkish government. Some hope the tragedy and the rescue effort that followed will help the two sides reconcile.
Radicalized and traumatized by their experience in prison, many Kurdish youths end up back in jail while others join the PKK guerrillas.
Jenna Krajeski tells the story of three Kurdish boys and their unlikely friendship. Mazlon, Ferman and Hawar were arrested at local protests, accused of terrorism, and sent to prison.
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Jenna Krajeski is a journalist based in Istanbul. From March 2010 to June 2011, she lived in Cairo, Egypt, where she worked as an editor and reporter for the English language version of the Egyptian...