ATIK | 12-03-2014 | During the Gezi Park rebellion which started May 27th 2013, the 14 year old boy Berkin Elvan went to buy bread in the district Okmeydan in Istanbul and he was gunned down by the police- exactly those police who were announced „heroes“ by prime minister Erdogan- with a teargas canister and injured on the head. Since ...
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Message of Solidarity with the people’s protests in Thailand!
ATIK- IRC | 25-01-2014 | Is it right for them to use the emergency decree to declare a state of emergency to come and deal with us? Come and get us.” On Tuesday January 21st 2014 the Thailand state declared a three-month state of emergency in Bangkok and neighboring provinces. The state claims the reason for the state of emergency ...
Read More »Hundred thousands say justice for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla
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 ...
Read More »French Goodyear workers hold managers captive in Amiens
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 ...
Read More »New Years message from ATIK General Council – WE WELCOME THE NEW YEAR WITH THE SPIRIT OF GEZI RESİSTANCE!
ATİK GENERAL COUNCIL | 01-01-2014 | WE WELCOME THE NEW YEAR WITH THE SPIRIT OF GEZI RESİSTANCE! 2014 Shall be ours! 2014 shall be full of struggle and hope for the workers and the oppressed! Since the early days of year 2000 we have witnessed uprisings which are increasing in terms of numbers and amplitude which has spread to a ...
Read More »Common Statement in support of the People of the Philippines affected by Typhoon
EUROPE | 10-12- 2013| On 8th November, the typhoon Hayan (known as Yolanda within the country) has swept some areas of the Philippines to more than 300 kilometres per hour, with 5 meter high waves, one of the strongest and most disastrous ever seen to hit the earth. Right from the start it was clear that the destruction of human ...
Read More »Fire kills seven and injures three in Italy
PRATO | 05-12-2013 | At least seven migrant garment workers of Chinese origin died and three were injured in the blaze on 1 December 2013 in an industrial zone of the town of Prato in Tuscany region of Italy. The fire happened on Sunday morning in a warehouse of a textile factory, on top of which according to local mass ...
Read More »Yılmaz Güney commemorated at his grave
PARIS | 09-09-2013 | The members of the Paris Platform of Democratic Mass Organisations have held a commemoration at Yılmaz Güney’s grave. Approximately 250 people gathered at Güney’s grave at the Pere Lachaise Graveyard. The commemoration started with a minute of silence, afterwards the platforms common statement was read. Quoting the statement “A seed of the revolutionary cultural art front ...
Read More »Dutch state found guilty of Srebrenica deaths
THE HAGUE | 06- 09- 2013 | The Dutch state has been found responsible by a court in The Hague for the deaths of three Muslim men after the fall of Srebrenica during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. “The court ruled that the Dutch state is responsible for the death of these men because Dutchbat (Dutch UN troops) should not have ...
Read More »Protest Against Nazis in Dortmund
DORTMUND | 03–09–2013 | On 31st August Nazis organised a march in one of Germany’s cities, Dortmund. Around 1000 people amongst which also ATIF and YDG were there, have strongly attempted to prevent this march. Despite all the measures the police had taken, the anti-fascist forces were able to barricade the route of the fascists. After a long and hard ...
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