SIRNEX | 30 – 12 – 2011 | Following the MGK (National Security Council) meeting on 28 December, the Turkish army has made a slaughter with warplanes. At least 35 burnt bodies have been reached so far. The number of casualties is feared to increase. Around 50 civilians, some of them believed to be borders smugglers, were targeted by F-16 ...

ATIK | 19 – 12 – 2011 | Our Confederation ATIK founded on 19th December 1986 is now within it’s 25th year of struggle. Within these 25 years, ATIK has been able to maintain it’s anti-imperalist, anti-fascist and resistant strong line , regardless of the  many challenges and difficulties in the migrants’ struggle for democratic rights. In 1986, when our ...

Resist commodification, modern-day slavery and other imperialist attacks on migrants and the people! Statement of the International Migrants Alliance on the International Migrants Day 2011 The International Migrants Day 2011 is commemorated amidst intensified attacks on the livelihood and rights of migrants under the worsening global economic and financial crisis brought about and intensified by imperialist globalization and war. At ...

ATIK | 18 – 12 – 2011 | The ‘International Migrant Rights Convention’ became an agreed decision during the United Nations General Assembly in 1990. Again, in 2000, United Nations Organisation declared 18th December as ‘International Migrants Day’. In 2003, this convention came into force with the approval of 20 countries, which were categorised as the ’emigration countries’ and are perceived as ...

ATIK | 02 – 11 – 2011 | Around the world millions of Kurds are watching the Kurdish satellite TV channel ROJ TV. ROJ TV is not only the biggest Kurdish TV station but also the one with the highest viewing rates among all TV channels in Turkey. Despite this and maybe rather because of this the Turkish Government keeps putting pressure ...

ISTANBUL | 17 – 10 – 2011 | We are very sad to inform the international progressive public that our comrade Suzan Zengin has passed away on October 12th 2011 due to an heart damage. She had been on the emergency room since 17 days. Reason for her intense illness was the inhuman prison conditions that exist in Turkey’s prisons. ...

TURKEY | 16 – 10 – 2011 | As a result of a conspiracy filed against the journalist Suzan Zengin she was imprisoned in 2009 and send to the Bakirkoy woman Prison in Istanbul. She was working for the progressive-revolutionary paper Ozgur Gelecek (Free Future) after… she was released from prison she had to undergo a heart surgery but she did ...

TURKEY | 20 – 07 – 2011 | Last night a broad operation in the region Dersim in the province Pulumur and the Dersim-Bingol borders were launched by the Turkish armed forces. Also this morning hundreds of new military units were sent to Dersim. According to the information of news agencies about 4 thousand soldiers participate in this broad counter-guerrilla offensive that ...

ATIK | 11 – 05 – 2011 | Dear Friends, As the Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe (ATIK) we salute you, our migrant brothers and sisters who have started and still continue on May 1st a occupation- action in front of the Massa Cathedral on May 1st against racist laws and oppression and we declare our support to ...

İNDİA | 01 – 05 – 2011 | Condemn the Illegal Detention of Central Committee Members of the CPI (Maoist) Vijay Kumar (Jaspal), Varanasi Subramaniam (Saroj), Jhantu Mukherjee along with Three Villagers by the Bihar Police! Demand the Immediate Production of the Six before a Court of Law! According to media reports, three Central Committee members of the CPI (Maoist) ...