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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 ...

ISTANBUL| 01-05-2014 | Thousands of people are expected to gather on Istanbul’s highly symbolic Taksim Square for May Day despite a Government ban. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned protesters to “give up hopes” of meeting on Taksim, a traditional and symbolic rallying point for 1st of May events. Turkish media reported that 40,000 police officers as well as 50 water cannon trucks and ...

ISTANBUL | 18 – 04 – 2014 | Let’s meet at the International Symposium on Prisons! Freedom for all Revolutionary, Democratic, Patriotic Prisoners The first time when the bourgeoisie attacked by imprisoning people was in 1596 in Amsterdam. This kind of attack or praxis was named the “Flemish model”. The imperialists and their collaborators attack, imprison, and give heavy punishments ...

AHM | 27-03-2014 | One week after blocking Twitter, Turkey blocks YouTube when recordings of very dubious talks on waging a war against Syria appeared on YouTube. The Turkish government reinforced its heavily criticized clampdown on social media on Thursday, blocking YouTube a week after it restricted access to the micro-blogging platform Twitter. The latest curbs came hours after an audio recording ...

AHM| 18-03-2014 |  The newly formed “International Committee for Freedom & Justice for Sevan Nişanyan” has issued the following appeal to coincide with the International Day in Support of Political Prisoners (March 18). The committee also announces that today, at 6:00 pm local Turkish time, it is organizing an important event in Istanbul to be attended by the city’s most prominent intellectuals ...

ISTANBUL | 11-03-2014 | Berkin Elvan, 15,  who was shot with a gas cannister shot by the police during the Gezi protests on  June 16 2013 has died  this morning in Istanbul/ Turkey. Berkin had been in a comatose state since 269 days. Police have cracked down the gathering of hundreds of people at the hospital in support of the ...

ISTANBUL  | 11-02-2014 | Political music band Grup Yorum has announced that its members will go on hunger strike at the “Resist Kazova-DİH Pullover and Culture Centre” opened by workers of the occupied Kazova factory on 14 February. The band will demand the removal of the ban on leaving the country imposed on its members following a series of detention ...

ISTANBUL |09-02-2014 |Thousands of people have taken the streets on Saturday February 8th in Istanbul against the expurgation-law resolution of the government. This law gives the unlimited right of censorship to the TIB (Tele communication Of Turkey) that directly operates with the prime ministry. Furthermore this law allows the government to hinder and expurgate the social media, especially since the ...