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11-03-2015

SURVEILLANCE, TARGETING AND THE CRIMINALISATION OF KURDS IN THE UK


Many Kurds in the USA, UK and in other European Union states – alongside Kurdish communities in Australia and elsewhere[i] - are being (and have been) subjected to publicly unaccountable surveillance, targeting and criminalisation actions that need to be exposed and opposed. - Des Fernandes, Kurdish Question

Due to European supra-state ('Fortress Europe'), US-NATO-UK and other 'deep political' agendas of governments, intelligence agencies, private surveillance companies, arms firms and corporations and immigration agencies, Kurds in the UK have been placed under extensive surveillance, targeting and criminalisation since the 1980's, particularly after the armed struggle by the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) was launched in the wake of the military coup in Turkey that intensified processes of genocide against the Kurds and 'Others'.


Read the full series here:

Part 1: http://kurdishquestion.com/index.php/kurdistan/surveillance-targeting-and-the-criminalisation-of-kurds-in-the-uk-part-i.html


Part 2:http://kurdishquestion.com/index.php/insight-research/dossiers/surveillance-targeting-and-the-criminalisation-of-kurds-in-the-uk-part-ii.html

Part 3: http://kurdishquestion.com/index.php/insight-research/dossiers/surveillance-targeting-and-the-criminalisation-of-kurds-in-the-uk-part-iii.html

Part 2: http://kurdishquestion.com/index.php/insight-research/dossiers/surveillance-targeting-and-the-criminalisation-of-kurds-in-the-uk-part-iv.html#_ednref53