Spent a few days in the Qandil Mountains in Northern Iraq. This is the place where PKK's military command is located. This is a short video on my visit.
- These around us are Arab villages. The people of Daesh (Islamic State) are there. After last year's autumn Peshmerga-offensive they disappeared, dispersed in these villages, - Dr. Kemal Kirkuki, former Speaker of the Kurdistan parliament uses a quite detailed presentation to introduce the…
My first experience about Syria is from when I was 5. In the downtown of Damascus, three people were hanged. But first they were skinned and their bodies were rolled into newspapers. Their blood was dripping. They were traitors. At least according to Assad Sr.'s secret police.We are sitting on a…
Whatever will be the outcome of the Syrian civil war will be, the refugee crisis may grow bigger than ever before.
The European Union seems to be really taking the problem seriously. The suggestions are closing in on the source of the troubles- they are in Turkey already and once surely will arrive…
Now, should come the numbers, statistics, wise and deep thoughts, now and here I must have prepared the ground for this whole new journey, instead I am here, sitting on the floor of a shabby building’s cellar in Istanbul’s Sulejmanije district surrounded by at least ten Syrian Kurds, those who are…
From Kanjiza a footpath lead out of the town. It goes along the river in the forest. A pleasant easy one kilometer walk under the trees. From the end of the path the highway junction is only another kilometer and half. ANd there comes the last long walk along a straight and very good quality road to…
Belgrade is a stopover. Chaos and disorder. The parks around the bus station have been taken over by refugees. Across the bus station and a housing block away is where they are. Waiting. The tickets to the northern cities of Vojvodina are sold for days in advance. Signs in arabic language…
(Absurd drama, act 2, scene one. At the Macedonian-Serbian border, five hundred meters from the border, next to a forest.)
Everything went so fine. After a short stopover in Komanovo the driver dropped me just outside of Tabanovce at a deserted roundabout next to main motorway. The border was…
-We are not animals, - Aden who sat next to me on the bus which was heading to Skopje form Gevgelija started a conversation with this strong statement. But this was just the summary of a day which was more like a surreal drama. Because this all is a big lie.
In Idomeni, the small Greek village…
We were sitting in the dust about an hour. I have joined a group of twenty thirty people. Actually the group or more excatly Abdulrahman from Homs have choosen me. A twentyfive year old Syrian who worked for a hospital as IT technician, beside that he studied as well. Now he is heading to Norway.…