News Middle East – rroma.org https://rroma.org Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:16:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png News Middle East – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Covid and Roma https://rroma.org/covid-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=covid-and-roma Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:16:38 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32295 According to the Travellers’ Times, Covid saw an undercounting of the impact of the Covid epidemy on Travellers and Roma.

]]> Erdelezi in Turkey https://rroma.org/erdelezi-in-turkey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=erdelezi-in-turkey Wed, 07 May 2025 06:58:26 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=28226 An article about the Erdelezi celebrations in Edirne, Turkey. With some rather unknown explanations of the festival (as the day of the meeting between the prophets Hizir and Ilias), and mentioning “purification” rituals.

]]> Google Translate Romanes https://rroma.org/google-translate-romanes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-translate-romanes Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:51:23 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=24372 Nice to see that google translate allows for translations in Romanes. It definitively has a bias towards Vlach Romanes, which is not the most common Romanes, but this is a good start! The choices of words on World, to think, and a few others show this bias, but on the other hand, they still use the old Romanes for “life”, which is not Vlach.

Wonder how this was compiled…

]]> Azerbaijan and Roma https://rroma.org/azerbaijan-and-roma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=azerbaijan-and-roma Fri, 05 May 2023 07:49:07 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=20284 Apparently, not is all rosy in that country for Roma.

]]> Sulukule https://rroma.org/sulukule/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sulukule Sun, 09 Apr 2023 07:31:10 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=20049 A reportage on Sulukule, one of the oldest Roma neighbourhood in Istanbul, unfortunately, a neighbourhood which has been dismantled by Erdogan to make room for housing for housing of his supporters.

]]> Turkey: The Aftermath https://rroma.org/19960-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=19960-2 Sat, 01 Apr 2023 09:08:23 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=19960 An organisation helping what they call Roma but further are referred to as Domari, the Middle Eastern cousins of the Roma in Southeastern Turkey in the aftermath of the recent earthquake.

]]> Turkey, the Earthquake, Roma and Domari https://rroma.org/turkey-the-earthquake-roma-and-domari/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=turkey-the-earthquake-roma-and-domari Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:30:39 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=19719 Discriminations of Roma and Domari (the Roma Middle Eastern cousins) is prevalent in the help of the victim of the recent earthquake in Turkey.

]]> Syrian Doms Refugees https://rroma.org/syrian-doms-refugees/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syrian-doms-refugees Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:44:15 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=13417 A publication on the Syrian Dom refugees.

http://www.kirkayak.org/download/we-have-seen-it-all/

]]> Turkey and Roma https://rroma.org/turkey-and-roma-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=turkey-and-roma-2 Sat, 28 May 2022 08:11:19 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=13950 The Turkish government is planning an action plan on Roma in the country. It is a bit of a joke to speak about housing after the ruling party and Mr. Erdogan expelled the Roma from Istanbul oldest Roma neighbourhood to make space for his supporters, ending a millennium of Roma presence there.

]]> The Doms https://rroma.org/the-doms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-doms Sun, 01 May 2022 11:40:00 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=14321 The cousins of the European Roma, the Domari have had to flee the wars in the middle east, and their language is unfortunately slowly vanishing.

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