Nigar Hacizade

Online Community Manager at Al Jazeera Turk, the soon to be launched member of Al Jazeera Network that will broadcast in Turkish. Born in Azerbaijan, raised in Turkey, studied in the US. Interested in new media, online communities, Russia and the Caucasus, gender issues, media studies and their intersections.

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UK: #TwitterKurds Organize First Social Media Gathering in London

  29 January 2012

A group of Kurdish Internet activists that have been organizing around the #TwitterKurds hashtag on Twitter have come together for the first Kurdish Social Media Gathering earlier this month in London. The event was live streamed and joined in via Skype and YouTube by those who could not be there physically, although there were participants who had traveled from as far as Australia to participate.