Deborah Ann Dilley · October, 2006

Latest posts by Deborah Ann Dilley from October, 2006

Turkey is Typing…

  14 October 2006

Two things have been the subject of debate this week in the Turkish blogosphere…Orhan Pamuk being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and the passing of a Armenian genocide law in France. The issue of the Armenian Genocide has always been a hot-topic discussion, with the claims of whether what...

Turkey: End of Student Festivals

  12 October 2006

Metroblogging Istanbul announces the Istanbul's Governor's Office decision to ban all student festivals as a means of combatting separatist group formation. “I wish they could find other ways of beating the ideological groups other than banning all youth fests…”

Kurdistance

  11 October 2006

I choose to begin this week's article with a disclaimer which is spawned in response to comments I received on last week's edition of Kurdistance: the contents of my articles are not of my own opinion, but rather the opinions of the bloggers that I cover. I try to remain...

Iraq: Iraqi Kurdistan Book Drive

Pearls of Iraq announces the details of an English language children's book drive for the Kurdish children in Sulaimaniya, Northern Iraq/Southern Kurdistan. This book drive is sponsered in part by Kurdistan Save the Children and the University of Sulaimaniya.

Turkey is Typing: Food Blogs

Welcome to the Turkish food blogs edition. Today I would like to cover what I see is the top 10 of Turkish Food blogs in Turkish and English. As of today I have discovered 72 blogs devoted to the wonders of Turkish food, (I am working on compiling a list...

Kurdistance

Welcome back to this week's edition of Kurdistance! Hiwa gives us a wonderful link to a amatur video about the Kurdish community in Leeds, UK that is featured on the BBC. Hiwa also reports on an incident that has made headlines in Turkey. At a recent NATO seminar, an American...