Turkey

URFA | 13-10-2014 | 261 people from Kobanê, including children, pregnant women, elderly people and journalists, who came to Turkey through the Mürşitpınar border gate after clashes intensified on 6 October, have protested after continuing to be held as hostages in a sports hall despite being promised they would be released. The people from Kobanê, many of whom have been ...

KOBANE | 07-010-2014 | Fighters of the YPG/YPJ (People’s/Women’s Defence Units) who have put a heroic resistance in the face of ISIS attacks on Kobanê for weeks have launched offensives against the gangs attacking the town with heavy weaponry. According to the reports by an ANHA correspondent on the ground, the YPG offensives have been launched in the east and west sides ...

ISTANBUL | 18-06-2014 | The AKP government of Turkey has removed the Al Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusrah (Al Nusra Front), which it has openly encouraged and supported in its attacks on the gains of the Kurds in Rojava, from its list of banned ‘terror organisations’. In this way the AKP has abandoned its support for the Islamic State in Iraq and ...

LİCE | 08-06-2014 | Turkish soldiers opened fire at protest against construction of military outpost in Lice, a district of Diyarbakir province. Local sources claim at least two were killed and several others wounded. Protests against the construction of a new military outpost in Lice turned violent today as Turkish soldiers opened fire on protestors. Two people were killed and several others ...

ISTANBUL | 22-05-2014 | Uğur Kurt (30), a contract worker in Beyoğlu Municipality, was shot dead with live ammo fired by police attacking the Okmeydanı weekly student protest for murdered Gezi protester Berkin Elvan. Istanbul police have staged a crackdown on members of Dev-Genç youth organization of high school students who staged a march in the district of Okmeydanı today ...

SOMA | 16-05-2014 | Footage has emerged of Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan taking a swing at a protestor during scuffles yesterday when he visited the mine at Soma. New footage shows PM Erdoğan throwing a punch while taking refuge in a supermarket during protests by local people. It is not clear from the footage on youtube whether the punch made contact, ...

ATİK  | 14-05-2014 | Hundreds of miners have been killed at the Mining plant associated with the Soma Holding on May 13 2014 at 3.30 pm in the district Soma of Manisa, according to a statement in a fire that was caused by an explosion in a power transformer. With the fire after the explosion and the power failure hundreds miners ...

TURKEY | 09-05-2014 | This is an article by Eren Korkmaz published in the Interdisciplinary Network for Social Protest Research. The contentwise responsibility lies with the author although we agree on the vast majority of the article.(ANC) Introduction Once again, this year, in Istanbul, the government banned May Day demonstrations and the police attacked fiercely protestors with pepper gas and ...

ISTANBUL | 07-05-2014 | As we approach the first anniversary of the Gezi Protests, trials of protestors and others caught up in the Turkish government’s crackdown are picking up pace.  Among those standing trial in a series of cases related to the Gezi Protests will be a number of health care providers.  Subject to abuse during the protests and increased government ...

TURKEY | 06-05-2014 | On 16 July 1971, the Ankara Martial Law began the case of 26 defendants from the Turkey People’s Liberation Army (THKO). Two months and 23 days later, the court decreed the execution of 18 people. Only three death penalties ratified Hüseyin İnan, Deniz Gezmiş and Yusuf Aslan were among these 18, and they were the only ones whose sentence was not ...