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ATIK – YDG  | 17 – 07 – 2012 | There are currently 771 students kept in prisons because they claimed their right to equal, free, scientific education and lessons to be in their mother tongue. They faced disciplinary actions, suspensions, repression, violence and imprisonment due to their opposing stance. This, once again proves that the ruler have no forbearance ...

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 ...

ATIK| 30 – 04 -2012|  Workers and toilers; Once again we are celebrating workers’ and toilers’ day of unity, struggle and solidarity, May Day, under great oppression and exploitation of the capitalist system. May Day has been vested through great struggles that cost blood and life to many. We are celebrating May Day in the midst of a capitalist financial crisis ...

ATİK | 03 – 01 – 2011 | The fascist Turkish state is continuing the massacres against the innocent Kurdish nation by means of chemical weapons. In the village of Roboski of Şırnak Uludere province 40 innocent people have been massacred in bombings by war planes. In the warmongering statement after the last MGK (National Security Council) meeting, the practical implementation of ...

ATIK | 19 – 12 – 2011 | Our Confederation ATIK founded on 19th December 1986 is now within it’s 25th year of struggle. Within these 25 years, ATIK has been able to maintain it’s anti-imperalist, anti-fascist and resistant strong line , regardless of the  many challenges and difficulties in the migrants’ struggle for democratic rights. In 1986, when our ...

ATIK | 18 – 12 – 2011 | The ‘International Migrant Rights Convention’ became an agreed decision during the United Nations General Assembly in 1990. Again, in 2000, United Nations Organisation declared 18th December as ‘International Migrants Day’. In 2003, this convention came into force with the approval of 20 countries, which were categorised as the ’emigration countries’ and are perceived as ...

ATIK | 02 – 11 – 2011 | Around the world millions of Kurds are watching the Kurdish satellite TV channel ROJ TV. ROJ TV is not only the biggest Kurdish TV station but also the one with the highest viewing rates among all TV channels in Turkey. Despite this and maybe rather because of this the Turkish Government keeps putting pressure ...

ATIK | 11 – 05 – 2011 | Dear Friends, As the Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe (ATIK) we salute you, our migrant brothers and sisters who have started and still continue on May 1st a occupation- action in front of the Massa Cathedral on May 1st against racist laws and oppression and we declare our support to ...

ITALY | 23 – 09 – 2010 | Indian state’s war against its own people. People’s resistance against war Operation Green Hunt differs from other wars the governments wage against peoples (in Palestine, Kurdistan, Colombia, etc.) because of it size. The troops are more than those in Afghanistan war (from 150.000 to 200.000 troops already massed). It runs over a land as ...

YDG | 18 – 08 – 2010 | Turkish Republic (TC) State has been wearing a mask of “Democratisation” for a long period, but on the other hang it continued to show its monstrous face which is hidden behind the mask to the revolutionaries- democrats and Kurdish patriots with more repression and detentions. It is not surprising that the capital ...