Turkey

ATIK-UPOTUDAK organized an international symposium in Stuttgart, Germany, on March 18, the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, with participants from the Philippines, Iran, Palestine, Kurdistan, Germany, Switzerland, and Turkey. The opening speech of the symposium, which was organized under the slogan “Freedom for political prisoners,” was made by the Co-chair of the Confederation of Turkish Workers in Europe. ...

This report is based on reports prepared by organisations such as the Human Rights Association of Turkey, the Platform of Lawyers for Freedom, the Association of Contemporary Lawyers, the Prison Commissions of Bar Associations and solidarity associations of prisoners’ relatives. The capitalist-imperialist system, drowning in crises, finds it more and more difficult to rule the vast masses of labourers every ...

18 March; International Day of Political Prisoner FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! Every year, on the International Day of Political Prisoners on 18 March, we have to face the reality that thousands of people in many countries of the world are imprisoned for their views and subjected to severe torture. Because the crisis in the current system is intensifying day ...

Resolution in Support of the Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria Resolution of the United Front Webinar on 12.2.2023 Millions of people were affected by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023. Around 20 thousand people in Turkey and 4 thousand people in Syria lost their lives. Thousands of people were injured. There are ...

On 19-22 December 2000, the Turkish State murdered 28 political prisoners and injured hundreds of others in a bloody operation carried out simultaneously in 20 prisons. The fascist Turkish state added a new one to the history of massacres with this bloody operation, which they called “Return to Life” as if mocking the minds of the people and revolutionaries in ...

The ongoing wars of the USA, the EU, Russia and other imperialist powers in the Middle East continue to open certain territories to the fascist Turkish state. Those imperialist powers once again made themselves the cronies of the fascist Turkish state in the attacks on the night of 19 November by giving Turkey the permission to use the airspace. It ...

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen Ecevit Piroglu, a Kurdish-born socialist, has been illegally imprisoned in Belgrade, Serbia, since a year. Ecevit Piroglu is requested to be extradited to Turkey in violation of all international laws and practices. The Erdogan government has made several attempts at the Serbian government to extradite Ecevit Piroglu to Turkey. fI Ecevit Piroglu is extradited to Turkey, ...

Freedom for Ismail Yilmaz and all prisoners with medical conditions! Turkey has become an open prison as such no difference between prisons and outside. Another case has been added to prisoners with health conditions. Recently, the AKP-MHP alliance passed an amnesty in which nearly 100 thousand murderers and mafia members were released from prison. However, they played the 3 monkeys ...

Information Center: Yeni Demokrat Genclik (YDG) made a statement on the TIKKO guerrilla fighters who died in Dersim, retracing the events of recent months in Turkey and Kurdistan. All of these fighters for the people used to belong to YDG, and the youth movement honors those martyrs » Cengiz, Hakan and Özgüç … These comrades, with whom we have campaigned ...

TURKEY | 27-10-2014 | Turkish support for ISIS gangs has been proved once more with photographic evidence.  Armed gang members have been photographed at the border with Turkish soldiers, bidding each other farewell. Turkish support for ISIS gangs, which is constantly on the international agenda, has been documented once again by footage shot by the Dicle News Agency (DİHA), which ...