<p>On the evening of December 28, 2011 the Turkish air force bombed a party of Kurdish smugglers consisting of mostly young boys, killing 34 people. Following this incident, Turkish authorities promised a full and fair investigation, though nothing of the sort took place. Soon Turkish politicians and military officials began a cover up and began blaming the victims. 'Frederike Geerdink, a Dutch investigative journalist based in Diyarbakir, visited Roboski and began asking questions about the incident, as well as the survivors and relatives quest for justice. She followed up her story with several visits. She soon realised she was dealing with a microcosm of Turkey s Kurdish question, as the Turkish state refused to be accountable for the killings that had taken place, expecting the issue to go away.' The Roboski incident soon became one more item in Turkey's catalog of human rights abuses, especially where its Kurdish subjects are concerned.</p>

The Boys Are Dead: The Roboski Massacre and the Kurdish Question in Turkey

History

Geerdink, Fréderike

Middle East

Gomidas Institute Books

<p>‘This is old-fashioned journalism with the reporter going amongst the people to tell their story. Geerdink is embedded, surely, but not with the state; she embeds herself fully with the people and with the PKK. A fast-paced read for a long and protracted struggle.’ – Vijay Prashad, author of Washington Bullets Fréderike Geerdink’s This Fire Never Dies is a gripping account of her year spent with the Kurdish political and guerrilla group, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). She bravely goes into the PKK camps, meeting the fighters and talking to their leaders about their ambitions and their political view. Few journalists have taken the time not only to document the PKK’s views but to also try and understand the commitment and the fragility of the PKK fighters, and the views and habits of the ordinary villagers whose land remains a war zone between the Turkish state and the Kurdish fighters.</p>

This Fire Never Dies

Literature & Fiction

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