Showing posts with label boys on trial. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Boys on Trial in Turkey for Singing Kurdish 'Anthem'

SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: A choir from eastern Turkey sang a provocative song in Kurdish during a music festival in the United States. Now nine of the boys are on trial for supporting the illegal Kurdish rebel group, the PKK.

Three teenaged members of a boys' choir will go on trial today in Turkey for "making propaganda for a terrorist organization" -- namely the Kurdish separatist group, the PKK -- after singing a Kurdish song at a music festival in San Francisco late last year.

In October 2007 the boys sang a Kurdish-language march called "Ey Raqip" ("Hey Enemy") at the San Francisco World Music Festival. They performed a number of other songs, too, but the prosecutor in Turkey argues that "Ey Raqip" is a PKK anthem. Boys on Trial in Turkey for Singing Kurdish 'Anthem' >>> June 19, 2008

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