Mostar: the Old One, twenty years later - OBC Transeuropa
WEBFeb 23, 2010 · On November 9th, twenty years ago, the artillery of the Bosnian Croat army destroyed the Mostar Bridge, a treasure of Ottoman architecture and one of the symbols of Bosnia and Herzegovina. People reacted on instinct to the news
Femicides in Turkey: a film honours Bergen, the "Woman of Sorrow"
WEBApr 11, 2013 · The film “Bergen ” was released in Turkey on March 4. It tells the life story of singer Bergen, played masterfully by actress Farah Zeynep Abdullah. The film shows the singer’s transformation from a promising cello player to Turkey’s “Woman of Sorrow,” as her nickname has it.
Media in Turkey: a testing ground of censorship and control
WEBJul 3, 2013 · Turkey is currently the largest prison for journalists in the world, with over 80 media workers in detention. Not content with that, the Turkish parliament has now passed a law that gives the government more control over social networks. An analysis of the situation of the Turkish media
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WEBIn 30 of Europe's biggest cities, streets named after women make up only 9 per cent of the streets dedicated to individuals. The imbalance has started to narrow in some places, but progress is too slow: at this rate, it would take centuries to really close the gap.
Kiš, Europe, and us - OBC Transeuropa
WEBMar 4, 2009 · Thirty years ago, Danilo Kiš died in Paris. Shortly after his death the Berlin Wall fell, and with it the communist regimes in Eastern European countries and in former Yugoslavia. Kiš was gone and we listened to the great promises of a happier and fairer Europe, of a better world, promises that came to us from the rubble of the Wall.
Croatia's extremists: when life gives you no future, make …
WEBJul 23, 2020 · On June 11, a new right-wing extremism stunt once again shocked the Croatian public. A group of young men, members of the football ultras group Bad Blue Boys (BBB), gathered in the street in Zagreb, waving a banner “We’ll f*** Serbian women and children” and chanting “Kill, kill”.
2014, six years later: Bosnia and Herzegovina and the floods
WEBJun 1, 2011 · Then there is DRAS , an online information system for institutions and citizens: currently under expansion, it allows you to view risk maps and meteorological data in a very intuitive way.. Behind many of the results achieved there is the effort of institutions such as the UNDP – the UN programme for development – and international initiatives such as the DPPI , a project that seeks to ...
Dimitrije Tucović: a socialist in Slavija square - OBC Transeuropa
WEBJan 12, 2010 · The statue of Dimitrije Tucović has been in the centre of the busiest square in Belgrade – Slavija – for over sixty years. The political leader and leading member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia at the beginning of the twentieth century, was transferred to the capital thirty-five years after his death, on November 20 th, 1949.There he was buried on the notes of the International ...
Romania and Moldova: children left behind - OBC Transeuropa
WEBAug 29, 2017 · Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa is a publication registered at the Court of Rovereto n. 256 on 26 May 2004 - Editor in Chief Luca Zanoni
In Abkhazia, worried about the language law - OBC Transeuropa
WEBNov 6, 2012 · The law "On the state language", approved by the authorities in Sukhumi in 2007, risks exacerbating inter-ethnic relations in Abkhazia, a territory that remains largely multi-ethnic, even after the ethnic cleansing that happened during the war. Our correspondent went to Abkhazia to find out more about it. A feature story
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