[image: Hürriyet Daily News] <http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/> LEADING NEWS SOURCE FOR TURKEY AND THE REGION Court bans Women’s Day posters as Rosa Luxemburg confounds police
DİYARBAKIR - Doğan News Agency [image: The mentioned poster included pictures of Marxist theoretician Rosa Luxemburg and members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). DHA photo] The mentioned poster included pictures of Marxist theoretician Rosa Luxemburg and members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). DHA photo A Diyarbakır <http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tag/Diyarbak%C4%B1r> court has ordered the removal of posters announcing a March 8 International Women’s Day panel because it included pictures of Marxist theoretician Rosa Luxemburg and members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party<http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tag/PKK> (PKK). “Who is this Rosa?” a member of the southeastern province’s police force reportedly asked the head of the panel’s organizing committee, Şaneşin Aydın, according to the online bianet news portal. The court banned the posters on the grounds that that they constituted propaganda for the PKK <http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tag/PKK> since the announcement featuredPKK <http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tag/PKK> members. The posters for the panel, “Your way is our way; your words are our words,” included pictures of the German<http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tag/German> Marxist theoretician, who was murdered in 1919, as well as Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan, and Leyla Söylemez, three members of the PKK<http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tag/PKK> that were murdered in Paris <http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tag/Paris> on Jan. 9. Also included was Clara Zetkin, a comrade of Luxemburg, as well as executed Iraqi Kurdish activist Leyla Qasım. “What do you mean by saying ‘from Rosa to Sakine?’” the police officer reportedly asked Aydın. February/28/2013 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
