Mourners chant slogans and make gestures as they were blocked from going to the burial place of the deceased. Nagihan Akersel, editor of the Journal of Jineology, who was murdered during an armed attack in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government on October 4th, was buried in his hometown of Konya, Cihanbeyli. Except for the family and villagers, hundreds of people who came to Cihanbeyli to bid farewell to Kurdish academic-journalist were stopped at the village entrance by the gendarmes because the Turkish State did not allow the mass burial of the Kurdish academicia
Mourners chant slogans and make gestures as they were blocked from going to the burial place of the deceased. Nagihan Akersel, editor of the Journal of Jineology, who was murdered during an armed attack in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government on October 4th, was buried in his hometown of Konya, Cihanbeyli. Except for the family and villagers, hundreds of people who came to Cihanbeyli to bid farewell to Kurdish academic-journalist were stopped at the village entrance by the gendarmes because the Turkish State did not allow the mass burial of the Kurdish academician.
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