"When the Revolution Will Be Tweeted
By Uri Friedman 06:49 PM ET
...And now, according to the Kurdish news agency Firat, a group called TwitterKurds is asking Kurds across Turkey to tweet en masse at the hashtag #TwitterKurds every Friday before the country's June elections. We're "trying to use all possible ways and tactics to raise the Kurdish issue in Turkey with media outlets, journalists, tweeps, blogs," the organizers write. Pro-Kurdish activists, the AP explained back in March, have launched a broader civil disobedience campaign in Turkey--one that has already resulted in all-night sit-in demonstrations, a female Kurdish legislator slapping a police officer in the face, and a mayor leaping on top of an armored personnel carrier--to agitate for more cultural and political rights for Kurds, who represent about 20 percent of Turkey's 74 million people. There have also been violent clashes recently between the Turkish military and Kurdish rebels..."
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