Left:
Armenian deportees forced from their homes during the
genocide of 1915-1923 Right:
Kurdish
deportees forced from their villages in the southeast
during Turkey’s ethnic cleansing campaign of the
1990s.
Left:
A corpse of a young Armenian boy starved
to death during the genocide which began on April
24, 1915. Right: A Kurdish boy in
a remote village is forced to wave the Turkish flag
as part of the festivities of “International
Children’s Day”—a Turkish holiday
celebrated annually on April 23—while commandos
look on from the sidelines.
Left:
Turkish soldiers posing with the decapitated
heads of Armenian community leaders, 1915. Right:
Turkish soldiers posing with the decapitated heads of
Kurdish rebels, January 11, 1996.
KURDS
Left:
Two Kurdish children look on as a Turkish gendarme patrols
their village Right: A protestor is
detained by police during an international peace day
demonstration in Turkey’s western coastal city
of Izmir, September 1, 2003.
Left:
Living under the pressure of the gun in a remote village
of Turkish Kurdistan, a family waits for Turkish commandos
to finish a sweep of their house. Center:
Kurdish refugees huddle in a make shift camp after having
their villages destroyed by Turkish forces. Right:
A young Kurdish boy stands in front of a line of Turkish
gendarmes.
GREEKS
Left:
Turkish forces murder Greek Cypriot protestor Solomos
Solomou after he tried to climb a flagpole to bring
down the Turkish flag, August 14, 1996. Center:
The mourning of the slaughtered Greek civilians by their
relatives. Right: A Turkish mob and
Turkish occupation forces beat a Greek Cypriot protestor,
Tasos Isaac, to death, August 11, 1996.
ARMENIANS
Left:
Beheaded Armenian men during the Armenian Genocide.
Right: Armenians hanged in the street
in Constantinople before the deportation of the Armenians
to the desert had begun, 1915.
