Turkey

TURKEY | 30 – 12 – 2009 | Another 24 people have been taken into custody in the Turkish cities of Van and Batman. The total number of arrests throughout the last week in the scope of the operation against Peace and Democracy Party mounts to 47 people. The Peace Council of Turkey criticized the course of action. A further ...

ISTANBUL | 24 – 12 – 2009 | Our representatives and workers who intended to make a public meeting at the Bosporus Bridge were arrested. Since 5 month the workers of the Esenyurt municipality were laid of their jobs for being members of the municipality union. They are since 127 days on strike. The workers from BIMTAS Company are on ...

TURKEY | 20 – 12 – 2009 | After the negotiations in the White House between Obama and the Turkish PM Erdogan on December 7th, it was stated that there have been many “NEW” tasks given to Turkey, also called the “right arm of the US”. The US, who turned the Middle East into a blood bath has in order ...

MUŞ | 18 – 12 – 2009 | After the closure of pro-Kurdish DTP, clashes occurred in the pre-dominantly Kurdish South-East of Turkey and also in Istanbul, claiming the lives of several people. A shop owner from Muş shot to the crowd right in front of the police, a person in Istanbul was paid to shoot. During protests against the ...

TURKEY | 10 – 12 – 2009 | The clashes of police state forces and the Kurdish people in Turkey and Turkey Kurdistan.  has reached its highest point. Only last week more then 22 demonstrators were arrested for supposedly participating in an “illegal action”. Now on December 10th 2009, a demonstration initiated by the DTP in Van (region in Turkey/Kurdistan) ...

ISTANBUL | 13 – 10 – 2009 | The massive attacks, arrests and the censoring of the media, closings of oppositional revolutionary and progressive papers in Turkey have recently increased. All of these attacks happen in a time in where Turkey talks about “Kurdish solution” and “democracy solution”. But in reality it’s the other way around, with repression, false scenarios ...

TURKEY | 15 – 09 – 2009 | September 12, 2009 is the 29th dark anniversary of the 1980 Military Coup, second phase of a process of militarization in all fields of the country. Previously, the coup d’état of March 12, 1971 had already abolished or destroyed many democratic rights and institutions by the application of a repression without precedent. ...

TURKEY | 06 – 09 – 2009 | The massive attacks, arrests and the censoring of the media, closings of oppositional revolutionary and progressive papers in Turkey have recently increased. All of these attacks happen in a time in where Turkey talks about “Kurdish solution” and “democracy solution”. But in reality it’s the other way around, with repression, false scenarios ...

TURKEY | 05 – 07 – 2009 |The Callers of Justice for Children Call in Turkey have sent to all human rights organisations and activists the following appeal: Dear sir, Today in Turkey, because of the TMK (Terörle Mücadele Kanunu / Law to Fight Terror) of 1991, thousands of childeren are interrogated, judged, sentenced, and imprisoned as if they were ...

ANKARA (IPS) – Less than two years after its discreet sealing, the truce between ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) seems to have ended. The publication Jun. 12 of an article in Taraf, a liberal newspaper, of an alleged plan by army officers to overthrow the government and incriminate Fethullah Gulen, a religious leader ...