Turkey

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 ...

ATİK | 20 – 04 – 2009 | As a result of the state operations on April 14th in more then 13 regions including Diyarbakir, 70 party leaders of the DTP were arrested in a anti- democratic way. In this operation, it was said that the state attorney generalship acts in ‘secrecy’ and the Turkish police as always spread the terror of ...

TURKEY | 08 – 11 – 2008 | This year YOK is entering its 27th year of foundation and as every year, hundreds of students from all over the country gathered to protest against this fascist institution that was formed right after the fascist military junta in 1980. Its aim is it’ to create a youth that doesn’t think, write, read and ...

ISTANBUL | 30 – 10 – 2008 | The suppression against the oppositional and revolutionary press has strongly intensified. The ruling classes are violating the right for freedom of speech and the right for the progressive media stream to the toiling masses. The oppositional and revolutionary press that is writing about the actions of the workers and peasants and that ...

MERSIN | 26 –  10 –  2008 | Recently, fascists in Mersin have been raiding houses of Kurdish students. In Mersin in the district Anamur, fascists have raided the home of Kurdish students by using guns. In that assault one student got injured on the left arm. The others were able to escape, because the apartment was on the 1st ...