SİİRT | 12-01-2014 | 13-year-old Kader Erten, who was married off at 11 and gave birth at 12, has been found shot dead at her home in Pervari district of Siirt province. Her second child, who had been born prematurely, died recently. It is reported that Kader, originally from the Çatak district of Van province, was given in marriage (without ...

  NEW JERSEY |11-01-2014 | “Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle!” (Amiri Baraka)  Amiri Baraka (former Leroi Jones), writer, revolutionary, intellectual passed away at the age of 79 on January 9th. Amiri Baraka is not just a name that came forward during the merge of the Afro-American liberation movement in the 1950-1960`s, he also gave ...

PARIS | 11-01-2014 | Some hundred thousand people walked today in Paris to ask justice for Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, the three Kurdish women politicians killed in the French capital on 9 January 2013. People came from France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, England by train, car, bus to meet in Paris Gare du Nord, around the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO | 09 – 01 – 14| In one oft he most biggest metropolis of Brasil in Rio de Janeiro in the northern part called Metro Mangueira, heavily clashes between police and the people oft he Favela (slum) have been going on. The police brutally forces people to leave the slums because the state wants to build new bigger ...

TRABZON| 08-01-2014 | Law enforcement officers captured Zeynel Abidin Yavuz and Osman Hayal who have been top suspects within the retrial of 18 defendants in the case of murdered Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Gendarmerie forces detained Yavuz as he was walking on the street in Pelitli neighborhood in the Ortahisar district of Trabzon province onTuesday. Osman Hayal was also captured ...

AMED | 07-01-2014 | The military prosecutor of the chief of General Staff has issued a verdict of non-prosecution in the investigation into the massacre of 34 people who were killed as the result of a bombardment by Turkish warplanes near the village of Roboski in the Şırnak’s Uludere district on 28 December 2011. Victims of the massacre were mostly ...

BANGLADESH | 07-01-2014 |IndustriALL Global Union, UNI Global Union and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have expressed horror at the violent repression of garment worker strikes by security forces and government-backed vigilantes. Workers had been demonstrating peacefully demanding an increase in the minimum wage. At least four workers were killed and 39 injured during a crackdown by security forces ...

PARIS | 07-01-2014 | Workers at a Goodyear tyre factory in Northern France have been holding two managers captive in a dispute over plans to close the plant. The director of production at the plant in Amiens, Michel Dheilly and human resources chief, Bernard Glaser have not been allowed to leave the plant. Staff and management have been negotiating for ...

TURKEY | 06-01-2014 | The İzmir branches of the Human Rights Association (IHD) Contemporary Jurists Association (ÇHD) and TAYD-DER have issued a joint press release to highlight the torture suffered by four children transferred to Şakran prison after being tortured in Sincan prison. According to the children, they were beaten with truncheons and pipes when their sick friends failed to ...

HALUK GERGER| 05-01-2014 | Prof. Dr. Haluk Gerger says the Rojava Kurds face being under siege before the Geneva II conference, adding: “The Kurds will participate with their own identity and are behaving sensibly. However, there is intrigue against them. In the event that the Kurds sit down at the conference with an autonomous administration they will have strategically gained ...