Turkey

ISTANBUL | 02-01-2014 | The Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office has sent to Istanbul 10th High Criminal Court the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeals which approved the 8 year 9 month sentence for HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Co-chair Sebahat Tuncel. It is reported that the judgment will be read out in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) ...

AMED | 30-12-2013 | A monument has been opened in the Kayapınar district of Amed province on Monday in memory of 34 Kurdish civilians killed by Turkish warplanes on 28 December 2011. The Roboski monument in the Rojava Park has been built by the municipality. The monument which was sculpted by sculptor Suat Yakut is in the form of a ...

MARAŞ | 19-12-2013 | According to official numbers, 111 people, mostly Alevis, were massacred savagely in the Maras Massacre from 19 to 25 December 1978. The witnesses of the massacre can not forget the agony of massacre despite 35 years passing over it. Thousands of Alevis were wounded during the incidents, over 111 people were massacred, more than 552 houses ...

ISTANBUL | 18-12-2013 |  Turkish prosecutors unveiled a sweeping anti-corruption campaign this week that reaches deep into the country’s conservative government. More that 50 people have been detained so far, many of them tied to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the powerful prime minister. The investigations have drawn in business tycoons close to Erdogan, the sons of three of his ministers and ...

ANC |14-12-2013 | Fadime Ayvalıtaş mother of Mehmet Ayvalıtaş who was killed during the Gezi Resistance during a protest march at the May 1st Street has lost her life due to a heart attack on 13th December. The mother of Mehmet Ayvalıtaş, who was martyred during the Gezi Resistance, has died due to a heart attack. She was hurriedly rushed ...

TURKEY | 14-12-2013 | Following the landmark judgment of the Constitutional Court in releasing the CHP (Republican People’s Party) MP Mustafa Balbay, lawyers for BDP (Peace and Democracy Party)  MPs in custody have applied to the courts for the release of their clients, saying a precedent has been set. Elected BDP deputies have still not been released despite the publication ...

ISTANBUL | 08-12-2013 | 28 dismissed workers at Punto Deri, members of IndustriALL Global Union’s Turkish affiliate Deri-Is, have been picketing for more than three months for their fundamental rights. Located at Istanbul’s famous leather zone Zeytinburnu, Punto Deri produces for may international brands such as ZAPA, Strenesse, Lacoste, Laurel, Armani, Beckham, Bijing Sheng, Denham the Jean Maker, Girgio Sam, ...

ISTANBUL | 06-12-2013 | DESA, producing for many well-known brands such as Prada, Gucci, Debenhams, Whistless, Marks and Spencer, is one of the leading exporting companies in the leather sector in Turkey with three factories in Istanbul, Duzce and Corlu employing around 2,000 workers. Deri-Is and its members have faced increasing and systematic discrimination by DESA since the union established a ...

TURKEY | 12-11-2013 | The March 26 bombings of Kuskonar and Kocagili – Turkish villages close to the borders of both Syria and Iraq – caused at least 38 deaths. The Turkish government blamed the attack on the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (KWP), who from 1984 until March this year had fought an armed struggle for the establishment of an ...

ISTANBUL | 20-09-2013 | Istanbul 19th Court of First Instance has sentenced world-renowned pianist and composer Fazıl Say to ten months in prison for allegedly insulting Islamic religious values on social network Twitter. The famed pianist was accused of blasphemy in April after he tweeted verses by Persian poet Omer Khayyam which said that ““You say its rivers will flow ...