Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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The Kurds deserve a wide international recognition
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AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Turkish military operations launched late last year against Kurdish cities in the south-east such as Cizre and Diyarbakir have been extremely brutal even by Turkey’s standards.
Some 58 separate curfews have been imposed on different neighbourhoods in 21 districts of the seven Kurdish provinces of the region.
Kurdish communities are alleged to be sheltering guerillas from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). But the military clampdown has inflicted untold destruction on homes and degraded public infrastructure, as well as displacing thousands of people and leaving hundreds dead.
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