Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has secured a series of significant legal and operational victories in its global campaign against censorship and threats to media independence. […]
RSF Secures Landmark Victories for Press Freedom
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has secured a series of significant legal and operational victories in its global campaign against censorship and threats to media independence. Through targeted actions in Switzerland, France, and the United States, the organization has reinforced the legal protections afforded to journalists while dismantling digital barriers used by authoritarian regimes. Dismantling the Digital Iron Curtain Central to RSF’s recent success is "Operation Collateral Freedom," an initiative launched 11 years ago to bypass digital censorship. By utilizing mirror-site technology, the organization has restored access to 177 media outlets that were previously blocked by state authorities. The impact is…
Can the Purslane Speak?
Since Edward Said’s Orientalism, the relationship between knowledge and power, together with strategies of representation, has stood at the centre of colonial studies. As a literary critic, Said directed his attention above all to texts, tracing how they helped to legitimise colonial policies [1]. Through literary and scientific representations, academic and cultural institutions captured the minds and emotions of metropolitan and colonised publics alike, harnessing them to imperial projects. Yet colonialism does not work only upon minds and texts. Through administrative, military, and economic institutions it also reshapes the very geography that holds people, trees and undergrowth, deserts and mountains, rivers…
The Windmills, the Silo of Amad, and the Battles of Don Quixote
One of the first novels I read was Don Quixote. In primary school, a children’s edition sat on the classroom shelf. Its cover fascinated me: Don Quixote standing before the windmills, lance and shield in hand, poised to attack, his face caught between fear and wonder. I took the book and slipped it into my bag. The last period of the day was reading hour. As soon as it began, I eagerly pulled out the book and started to read. Don Quixote was a minor nobleman who, out of boredom, had withdrawn into the library of his little castle. There he…
RSF Secures Landmark Victories for Press Freedom
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has secured a series of significant legal and operational victories in…
Can the Purslane Speak?
Since Edward Said’s Orientalism, the relationship between knowledge and power, together with strategies of representation, has…
The Windmills, the Silo of Amad, and the Battles of Don Quixote
One of the first novels I read was Don Quixote. In primary school, a children’s edition…
The Worry of Writers, the Perception of Readers, and the Fate of Books (Endîşeya nivîskaran… )
The poet Hejar recounts in his memoir that he and his father placed several Kurdish…
RSF Secures Landmark Victories for Press Freedom
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has secured a series of significant legal and operational victories in…
Can the Purslane Speak?
Since Edward Said’s Orientalism, the relationship between knowledge and power, together with strategies of representation, has…
The Windmills, the Silo of Amad, and the Battles of Don Quixote
One of the first novels I read was Don Quixote. In primary school, a children’s edition…
The Worry of Writers, the Perception of Readers, and the Fate of Books (Endîşeya nivîskaran… )
The poet Hejar recounts in his memoir that he and his father placed several Kurdish…
A Mullah, Witness of Two Eras
In the 19th century, when the Kurdish principalities were dismantled, the Kurds lost their rule…
RSF Secures Landmark Victories for Press Freedom
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has secured a series of significant legal and operational victories in its global campaign against censorship and threats to media independence. Through targeted actions in Switzerland,…
Can the Purslane Speak?
Since Edward Said’s Orientalism, the relationship between knowledge and power, together with strategies of representation, has stood at the centre of colonial studies. As a literary critic, Said directed his attention…
The Windmills, the Silo of Amad, and the Battles of Don Quixote
One of the first novels I read was Don Quixote. In primary school, a children’s edition sat on the classroom shelf. Its cover fascinated me: Don Quixote standing before the windmills,…
The Worry of Writers, the Perception of Readers, and the Fate of Books (Endîşeya nivîskaran… )
The poet Hejar recounts in his memoir that he and his father placed several Kurdish books in an iron box and buried it in the garden of their village house,…
World Radio Day: from the United States to the Sahel, from the Amazon to the Philippines, journalism on the airwaves is under pressure
On this year’s World Radio Day, 13 February 2026, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is sounding the alarm over the growing threats facing radio broadcasters. Attacked in conflict zones, muzzled by…
#YouAreAllWeHave – Support us!
Neither millionaires nor parties and organizations are behind us, you are all we have! Botan International has published over a thousand Kurdish articles on the botantimes.com website in a year.…
A nurse from Adiyaman: “I have been in the hospital for a month”
Click for Kurdish Passed more than a month after the Kahramanmaras earthquakes, which affected 10 cities. Adiyaman is one of the cities that was destroyed in the earthquake. Sultan who…
Quickfire Dialogue with Berfin Zenderlioğlu
If you write a letter to God, what would you say? Hi, my other half, that's enough. Stop and take a rest. You suffocated me. Who is the person that…
Can the Purslane Speak?
Since Edward Said’s Orientalism, the relationship between knowledge and power, together with strategies of representation, has stood at the centre of colonial studies. As a literary […]
The Windmills, the Silo of Amad, and the Battles of Don Quixote
One of the first novels I read was Don Quixote. In primary school, a children’s edition sat on the classroom shelf. Its cover fascinated me: Don […]
The Worry of Writers, the Perception of Readers, and the Fate of Books (Endîşeya nivîskaran… )
The poet Hejar recounts in his memoir that he and his father placed several Kurdish books in an iron box and buried it in the […]
A Mullah, Witness of Two Eras
In the 19th century, when the Kurdish principalities were dismantled, the Kurds lost their rule in the cities. This loss of authority in the cities […]