Europe

Newroz ! The history of a people who organised against a vicious king and who, in the end, claimed victory.  As the day that, under the leadership of Kaveh the Blacksmith the people rose up against the tyrant Assyrian king Zahak, during which his empire was razed to the ground, Newroz has become the Kurdish people’s day of struggle and resistance ...

The Workgroup Against Imperialism held a small-scale support evening for ATIK, which is facing police repression. Earlier in the day we had heard sad news about the reactionary attack in Turkey against the friends of Kobanê. We wrote a common letter of support for ATIK, which we’re sending in English: Greetings comrades! We Finnish anti-imperialists have followed with concern the ...

No deportation! In the context of an overall operation in Europe, in April 15-18, the authorities violently arrested 13 Turkish militants, 7 in Germany, 4 in Greece, 1 in Switzerland and 1 in France, all active with ATIK (Confederation of Turkish Workers in Europe). In the past they have all been imprisoned for many years by the reactionary Turkish regime, ...

On April 15-18, the so-called “anti-terrorist” police forces in Europe and in Greece invaded, fully armed, the houses of Turkish militants and arrested 13, 4 in Athens, 7 in Germany, 1 in Switzerland and 1 in France. They are accused of being members and leaders of  TKP/ML (Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist Leninist), an organization assumed to be terrorist by the ...

BERLIN | 27-01-2015 | On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the world remembers the millions of victims of the Holocaust. Six million Jews, and also homosexuals, gypsies and communists, were murdered by Nazi Germany. Today in Berlin, President Joachim Gauck lead a commemoration at the Bundestag parliament before joining leaders and government officials of 39 other countries at ...

PARIS | 08-01-2015 | On January 7th 2015 three armed persons busted into the office of the Charlie Hebdo Magazine, the magazine was in their morning meeting, the armed gun men killed editorial director Stephane Charbonier together with 9 colleagues and two security personnel,  many people were injured. It is said that the reason for this massacre could be the ...

PARIS | 07-01-2015| Armed gunmen have stormed the headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. As many as 12 people are reported to have been killed in the incident. Gunmen stormed the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, shooting those inside and leaving at least 12 people dead. French police and a Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed 12 people had been ...

FRANKFURT | 20 – 11 – 2014 | In the bathroom at a McDonald’s in Offenbach, Germany on the evening of 15 November, two teenage girls were screaming for help. A 22 year-old German-born student of Turkish origin, Tugce Albayrak, heard their cries and alone rushed to their aid. She found several men harassing the two young girls and stopped them. ...

EUROPE | 07-10-2014 | Tens of thousands of Kurds have poured into the streets across Turkey, Europe and the world today in solidarity with the Kobanê resistance and in protest against the ongoing intensified attacks of ISIS gangs on the besieged Kurdish town. Demonstrators demanded urgent action worldwide in support of the Kurdish forces fighting inhuman gangs affiliated to the so-called ...

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 ...