Turkey

ISTANBUL | 11 -09-2013 | Tens of thousands took to the streets in Istanbul today to protest the killing of 22 year old Ahmet Atakan as a result of police violence in the southern province of Hatay two days ago. Last updates from the protests across the city are as follows; 22.46 Police are attacking demonstrators in Gazi neighborhood with ...

ANTAKYA | 10- 09-2013 | 22 year-old Ahmet Atakan died midnight while joining the protests in the southern province of Antakya late Monday evening. The young man who was hit on the head with a tear gas canister fired by police at the protests was critically wounded and rushed to Antakya state hospital where he was confirmed to have lost his life ...

ISTANBUL | 09-09-2013 | Istanbul police have brutally attacked demonstrators who have gathered in Okmeydanı neighborhood today to form a human chain in solidarity with Berkin Elvan, a victim of excessive force police used during Gezi protests in June. 14 year old Berkin Elvan is in coma since June 16 when he was shot on the head by a gas ...

ANKARA | 07- 09- 2013 |Early Friday morning, police attacked students of Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) protesting against the construction of an 8-lane highway that is planned to cut through their campus. The police attack targeted a group of students who have been on guard duty to prevent the felling of trees on the campus since the construction ...

BEHDINAN | 05 -09 -2013 | Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council co-presidents Cemil Bayık and Besê Hozat welcomed a delegation of the Iraqi and Southern Kurdistan Commission, which has been formed to serve the signature cmpaign for freedom for Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, in Media Defense Areas controlled by HPG (People’s Defense Forces) guerrillas. During the meeting on ...

BEHDINAN | 04-09-2013 | Turkish soldiers attacked the Agit Suruç Martyrs’ Cemetery in Bendere region near Bagok mountain, in Mardin, on Tuesday. Soldiers allegedly exhumed the body of HPG (People’s Defense Forces) guerrilla Ahmet Uğurlar who had been buried in the cemetery on Monday. Speaking to ANF about the attack on the cemetery, where 43 HPG guerrillas are buried, mayor ...

 ISTANBUL | 01 -09 – 2013 | Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Küçükçekmece Women’s Assembly member Neslihan Harman died on Sunday after she was shot by her ex-husband on her way to the major BDP meeting to take place in Istanbul’s Kadıköy district today on the World Peace Day. According to the statements of eye witnesses, Harman was assaulted by ...

 TURKEY | 23-08-2013 |  After the allegation that in the Guta city near Damascus in Syria over thousand people were massecred,  the People’s Democratic Congress (HDK) said “there will be no winner to this bloody civil war; the loser will however be the innocent people of Syria” during the press conference that they held. The People’s Democratic Congress Executive Commmittee, has ...

ISTANBUL | 22-08-2013 | Deri-Iş Union (Leather Workers) has held a demonstration march in front of Punto Deri in Zeytinburnu in Istanbul on 21st August. The reason for the march was that 11th August workers from Punto Deri were fired for being union members. During the protest march the slogans were “Unions are our right and cannot be prevented”, “Unity, ...

TURKEY | 06 – 09 – 2012 | Turkish Airlines and Turkish Technic workers who are all members of the Turkish Civil Aviation Union (Hava-Is) have been on the picket line at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport, main hub for Turkish Airlines, for 100 days now. Turkish Airlines and Turkish Technic have fired 305 workers via text message, email and phone ...