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Workers remain solid and defiant on the picket line for 100 days – a message from Hava-Is

TURKEY | 06 – 09 – 2012 | Turkish Airlines and Turkish Technic workers who are all members of the Turkish Civil Aviation Union (Hava-Is) have been on the picket line at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport, main hub for Turkish Airlines, for 100 days now. Turkish Airlines and Turkish Technic have fired 305 workers via text message, email and phone ...

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In Solidarity with Students in Captivity, who Resist Fascism in Turkey!

ATIK – YDG  | 17 – 07 – 2012 | There are currently 771 students kept in prisons because they claimed their right to equal, free, scientific education and lessons to be in their mother tongue. They faced disciplinary actions, suspensions, repression, violence and imprisonment due to their opposing stance. This, once again proves that the ruler have no forbearance ...

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ITF launches campaign for Turkish Airlines workers

 TURKEY | 09– 07 – 2012 | The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) will launch a new campaign on Monday for the reinstatement of 305 sacked Turkish Airlines workers and the withdrawal of a swingeing new legal amendment that deprives aviation workers of the right to strike. Turkey already has draconian laws that virtually outlaw what other countries regard as normal democratic ...

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TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC!

ATIK | 30 – 06 – 2012 | The long term usurpation of the gains of the working class is continuing intensively in Turkey.  The principle of the attacks is towards the unions of the working class, they are trying to pasify the unions. The unions who are at the front of this struggle, who are opposing the attacks of ...

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Journalists Protest Police Raid into Their Offices

TURKEY | 27 – 06 – 2012 | Employees of the Atılım Newspaper and the Etkin news agency (ETHA) staged a protest in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Tuesday by selling newspapers on the street in response to a police raid into their offices the same day. Law enforcement officials Tuesday raided the offices of the Etkin News Agency (ETHA) and ...

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Court Sentences Singer to Two Years in Prison for Speech

TURKEY | 27 – 06 – 2012 | A specially authorized court in the eastern province of Malatya sentenced Kurdish-Alevi singer Ferhat Tunç to two years in prison on terrorism related charges due to his invocation of the names of deceased Turkish leftists during a speech on May 1, 2011. The Malatya specially authorized Third Court for Serious Crimes sentenced ...

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With the massacre of 40 peasants in Şırnak the fascist Turkish state has added a new massacre to its list of atrocities against the Kurdish nation!

ATİK | 03 – 01 – 2011 | The fascist Turkish state is continuing the massacres against the innocent Kurdish nation by means of chemical weapons. In the village of Roboski of Şırnak Uludere province 40 innocent people have been massacred in bombings by war planes. In the warmongering statement after the last MGK (National Security Council) meeting, the practical implementation of ...

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