Visit PEN International's website

This is a site-wide search. If you’re looking for specific collection pieces, please use Search the Collection.

Menu

Kurdish Centre

Hands from the statue of Ehmedê Xanî

© Kurdish Centre
transparent
© Kurdish Centre

Hands from the statue of Ehmedê Xanî

Photograph of stone hands broken off from a sculpture of the Kurdish poet Ehmedê Xanî. This statue, which stood in Doğubayazıt-Bazîd, was torn down by Turkish authorities on 26 June 2017 as part of a crackdown on Kurdish free expression during a time of national emergency in Turkey.

Hands from the statue of Ehmedê Xanî

Contenu en français bientôt disponible.

Manos de la estatua de Ehmedê Xanî

Fotografía de las manos de piedra rotas de una estatua del poeta kurdo Ehmedê Xanî. Esta estatua, antes en Doğubayazıt-Bazîd, fue derribada por las autoridades turcas el 26 de junio de 2017, muestra de la represión de la libertad de expresión kurda durante un período de emergencia nacional en Turquía.

Date:

[2017]

Creator:

Kurdish Centre

Centre:

Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)

Format:


Language:

n/a

More from the Kurdish Centre Collection

Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2013

© Kurdish Centre

Kurdish Centre meeting in Oldenburg

© Kurdish Centre

Scattered files and overturned desks

© Kurdish Centre

Fire damage at Kurdish Centre

© Kurdish Centre

Destruction in Kurdish Centre offices

© Kurdish Centre

Kurdish Centre’s new Board 2013

© Kurdish Centre

Young Civil Society Programme participants

© Kurdish Centre

Remembering Cigerxwîn

© Kurdish Centre

Kurdish Centre courtyard after attack

© Kurdish Centre

8th Kurdish Centre Annual Meeting

© Kurdish Centre

Statue of Ehmedê Xanî

© Kurdish Centre

Destroyed office at Kurdish Centre

© Kurdish Centre

Discover more:

1 Damaged cabinets at Kurdish Centre

Image

See archive details
2 Corruption, Impunity, Silence book

Image

See archive details
3 Benjamin Crémieux

Image

See archive details
4 The All India Centre’s emergency resolution

Image

See archive details
5 Eguna Newspaper, 1937

Image

See archive details
6 Kurdish Centre stairwell and doorway

Image

See archive details
7 Seyhmus Diken with Ahmed Arif sculpture

Image

See archive details
8 Destruction in Kurdish Centre offices

Image

See archive details
9 Kurdish Centre courtyard after attack

Image

See archive details
10 Resolution published during ‘The Emergency’

Image

See archive details
11 Appeal from the Nicaraguan Centre

Video clip

See archive details
12 Scattered files and overturned desks

Image

See archive details
13 Kurdish Centre’s shattered entrance

Image

See archive details