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London: Kurdish Social Media Gathering
28.1.2012
By Kulka Iwona Bugno
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January
28, 2012
LONDON,
UK, — On Saturday, 21st January 2012 at Kurdish
Community Center in London, Kurdish Social Media
Gathering
took place. The
subject of the meeting were mass media and means of
mass communication, specially Internet, and their
important role in riding awareness and spreading the
information about the problems of Kurdistan and
Kurdish people.
The special thanks goes to the great activist of
non-Kurdish origin, who is living in London and is
widely known by the name Hevallo (@Hevallo - on
Twitter). He is the author of the blog "Hevallo.
Turkey and the Kurdish Question", that covers all
the important, current and past, issues of
Kurdistan. Hevallo is also the founder of #TwitterKurds
- very popular hash-tag on Twitter website, where
all the issues, news and events concerning Kurdistan
are discussed, as well as the actions of mass
tweeting about some crucial events, like Wan
Earthquake or Uludere Massacre are hold, sometimes
for all night long. Hevallo was one of the speakers
at the meeting - he was talking about the his
personal experiences from his visit to Bakuri
Kurdistan (North Kurdistan) some years ago, that had
a big impact on him and changed his life.
Other Kurdish activists, who are based in London
took part in the meeting as well and those who are
living outside UK, in Europe and USA joined us via
Skype.
One of the participants - great young Kurdish lady,
came all the way long from Australia to take part in
the meeting. She was also one of the speakers and
she expressed her concern about the lack of
activities among Kurds, who lived in her city, as
well as the fact that there is no any organized
Kurdish community over there. She also promised to
do her best to improve the situation.
We also had the chance to watch the videos, that
were recorded for that event - one of the video was
the speech of Abdulla Demirbas. We also get the
video made by Japanese lady, who is a friend of
Kurds and one of the active members of Twitter (@Melikejaponya)
- she is spreading the news about Kurdistan among
the people in Japan.
At the end of the meeting all the audience took
active part in a discussion.
Social media, specially Internet is a powerful tool,
that we all should use in our struggle for freedom
and independence of Kurdistan. Through Internet we
are able to reach thousands millions of users in
every corner of the earth. It also helps us to be in
contact with each other,www.ekurd.net
both individually and in a wider group - we can
communicate very easy, share the news immediately
and be updated with all the important events.
We should use this great possibility, that Internet
gives to us in our struggle for the future of
Kurdistan. Very important part of this struggle is
spreading the truth about the situation of Kurdish
people in occupied territories, as well as
correcting all the misinformation about this issue,
that we spot on Internet websites.
All Kurds and friends of Kurds - don't hesitate to
use this tool, because even one little step of an
individual person can make the difference. We never
know what will be the result of the action that we
undertake. And if we imagine a huge number of
people, who will act and react, we will get a huge
number of little steps, that for sure must make a
difference.
Some of us are fightinf for our rights and freedom
in the mountains, with the weapon. Let's support
them and let's make a social media - Internet - to
be our weapon. Let's our words to be our bullets -
we can make a difference, we can change the reality.
We have to do that - so don't waste this great
chance, join us on Twitter, Facebook and any other
possible site - be a part of Social Media Kurdish
Family and fight together with us for our rights and
for our freedom.
Kulka Iwona Bugno, a freelance writer and
activist from UK
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