Turkey

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 ...

 TURKEY | 09– 07 – 2012 | The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) will launch a new campaign on Monday for the reinstatement of 305 sacked Turkish Airlines workers and the withdrawal of a swingeing new legal amendment that deprives aviation workers of the right to strike. Turkey already has draconian laws that virtually outlaw what other countries regard as normal democratic ...

TURKEY | 27 – 06 – 2012 | Employees of the Atılım Newspaper and the Etkin news agency (ETHA) staged a protest in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Tuesday by selling newspapers on the street in response to a police raid into their offices the same day. Law enforcement officials Tuesday raided the offices of the Etkin News Agency (ETHA) and ...

SIRNEX | 30 – 12 – 2011 | Following the MGK (National Security Council) meeting on 28 December, the Turkish army has made a slaughter with warplanes. At least 35 burnt bodies have been reached so far. The number of casualties is feared to increase. Around 50 civilians, some of them believed to be borders smugglers, were targeted by F-16 ...