Famous Kurdish politician Zana gets ten years

ISTANBUL – The well-known Kurdish politician and human rights activist Leyla Zana has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for ‘making propaganda for a terrorist organization’, according to reports on Turkish TV channel NTVon Thursday.

Zana was sentenced for nine different speeches she made at political gatherings, for example during last year’s election campaign. According to the judge she praised the …

Swimming

I’m in south-east Turkey and I’m swimming. That sounds kind of funny because there’s not much sea around here, but what I mean is: I’m swimming work-wise. I have this huge project under my hands that has no deadline and no word limit (well, 80 to 90,000 words can’t be called a limit, right?), and no very specific work plan …