Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink, author at Diken, has been detained by the Turkish counter terrorism police after a raid to her house in Diyarbakır.

American journalist Seymour Hersh, in an exclusive interview with DİKEN, answered some of the questions that have been raised by his latest piece published on London Review of Books on April 4. One of the most controversial claims Hersh made is that the Turkish government was behind the August 21st sarin gas attack in Damascus. Hersh also responded to criticism leveled against him by those like Eliot Higgins and Dan Kaszeta.

British blog writer Eliot Higgins, known for his credible observations on the civil war in Syria, opposes the allegations of Seymour Hersh, the American journalist who claims that the Turkish government behind the August 21st sarin attack in Damascus. Higgins claims that Volcano rockets were used in the attack and it was not possible for the rebels to have obtained such rockets.

The more nationalist a Turk, the more he considers the Kurdish region as a part of the country where he will never ever set foot. They passionately deny the existence of Kurdistan, but without realizing it they created the country in their minds. Who are the separatists here?

The Roboski massacre was not an accident. It was a deliberate bombing of a group of poor smuggling villagers. We cannot forget Roboski. May our hearts dry out if we do.

The Kurdish political movement is way more diverse than all other political parties in Turkey combined.

Earning a living on rugged terrain while you are being watched by drones, and by soldiers from the ground and from their army posts on the mountain tops. Finding your way over paths on which many smugglers got into trouble with authorities before and on which in one evening 34 of them were bombed to death. A state forcing its own citizens into such a deplorable and dangerous situation, that is where mind blowing absurdity begins.