COLOGNE | 24-05-2014 | Thousands of Erdogan opponents took to the streets of Cologne to protest against the Turkish prime minister’s visit. They were demonstrating against his attitude to minorities and the mine tragedy in Soma. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Germany yesterday was marked by a large demonstration in the city of Cologne. According to organisers 100 ...

ISTANBUL | 22-05-2014 | Uğur Kurt (30), a contract worker in Beyoğlu Municipality, was shot dead with live ammo fired by police attacking the Okmeydanı weekly student protest for murdered Gezi protester Berkin Elvan. Istanbul police have staged a crackdown on members of Dev-Genç youth organization of high school students who staged a march in the district of Okmeydanı today ...

GREECE | 15-05-2014 | We are publishing the Press Release from the CPG (ml)  concerning the Soma mine workers massacre. (AHM) The Turkish and the world working class are shocked after the new terrible crime of the capitalists at the coal mine of Soma in the Manisa province of Turkey. The workers of the whole world weep for hundreds of ...

SOMA | 16-05-2014 | Footage has emerged of Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan taking a swing at a protestor during scuffles yesterday when he visited the mine at Soma. New footage shows PM Erdoğan throwing a punch while taking refuge in a supermarket during protests by local people. It is not clear from the footage on youtube whether the punch made contact, ...

SWITZERLAND  | 15-05-2014 | IndustriALL Global Union and its worldwide family mourn the deaths of hundreds of mineworkers in Soma, Manisa province in Western Turkey. As of the time of writing, 205 miners are dead and more than 80 are hospitalized. Rescue efforts continue to safeguard hundreds more miners trapped underground. Oxygen is still being pumped into the mine, however hopes ...

ATİK  | 14-05-2014 | Hundreds of miners have been killed at the Mining plant associated with the Soma Holding on May 13 2014 at 3.30 pm in the district Soma of Manisa, according to a statement in a fire that was caused by an explosion in a power transformer. With the fire after the explosion and the power failure hundreds miners ...

IAPL | 12-05-2014 |  The International Association of People’s Lawyers, as an international group of human rights lawyers from various countries, especially those where exploitation and state repression is most severe, has received information that the Professor of Delhi University was abducted by Maharashtra Police on May 9th, from the vicinity of Maharashtra Sadan, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, in the capital New Delhi in India. ...

ATIK | 10-05-2014 | G.N Saibaba who was abducted on May 9 2014 by the State security forces ,  is a wellrespected and recognized activist and intellectual known for his struggle against the capitalist-imperialist system and their Indian representatives.  He has assumed many important tasks and played a integrative role in the struggles of the peoples ranging from Kashmir to Tamil ...

TURKEY | 09-05-2014 | This is an article by Eren Korkmaz published in the Interdisciplinary Network for Social Protest Research. The contentwise responsibility lies with the author although we agree on the vast majority of the article.(ANC) Introduction Once again, this year, in Istanbul, the government banned May Day demonstrations and the police attacked fiercely protestors with pepper gas and ...

COLOMBIA | 08-05-2014 | Farmers in Colombia are striking again citing government failure to fulfill promises made last August 2013 at the previous agrarian strikes. Strikers were brutally repressed by ESMAD (Mobile Anti-Disturbance  Squadron) this week with reports of up to 130 injured. Students and teachers have now joined the farmers in solidarity and farmers say they will continue the Paro Agrario ...