Home , 2012 , June

Monthly Archives: June 2012

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 ...

Read More »

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 ...

Read More »

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 ...

Read More »