Turkey

 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 ...

TURKEY | 16 – 10 – 2011 | As a result of a conspiracy filed against the journalist Suzan Zengin she was imprisoned in 2009 and send to the Bakirkoy woman Prison in Istanbul. She was working for the progressive-revolutionary paper Ozgur Gelecek (Free Future) after… she was released from prison she had to undergo a heart surgery but she did ...

TURKEY | 20 – 07 – 2011 | Last night a broad operation in the region Dersim in the province Pulumur and the Dersim-Bingol borders were launched by the Turkish armed forces. Also this morning hundreds of new military units were sent to Dersim. According to the information of news agencies about 4 thousand soldiers participate in this broad counter-guerrilla offensive that ...

TURKEY | 24 – 04 – 2011 | The Press statement of the TKP/ML-TIKKO Dersim Region Comittee from April 20th 2011 states that on 2nd February 2011, 5 guerillas of TKP/ML- TIKKO have lost their lives as a result of an avalanche. According to the statement of the Dersim Region; on February 2nd 2011 at 5am a avalanche destroyed the ...

TURKEY | 19 – 04 – 2011 | Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (the Elections Body) has ruled that BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) candidates Sebahat Tuncel (İstanbul), Gültan Kışanak (Siirt), Hatip Dicle and Leyla Zana (Diyarbakır), and “Labor, Democracy and Freedom” blocks candidates Ertugrul Kurkcu (Mersin), Isa Gurbuz (Elazig) and Salih Yildiz can not contest the elections. It is a hard ...

TURKEY | 27 – 03 – 2011 | Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) leader Selahatin Demirta? made an announcement, calling on Turkey’s Kurdish population to stage acts of civil disobedience. Speaking in a press conference he jointly held with Democratic Society Congress (DTK) leader Ahmet Türk, Demirta? said the DTK, an organization established by former members of the now-defunct ...

Urgent Statement From Peace And Democracy Party Peace and Democracy Party (Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi or BDP) and Democratic Society Congress (Demokratik Toplum Kongresi or DTK), have called the people to indefinite sit-down strike in Diyarbakir on 24 March 2011. DTK and BDP is also informed the public opinion about reason of the strike. According to the declaration, BDP and ...

TURKEY | 09 – 02 – 2011 | The Publishers Association demands the release of journalist Zengin from the Işçi-Köylü newspaper after one year in detention. Suzan Zengin is also a human rights activaist and translator of minority and genocide issues. Her first hearing was on 26 August. Next trial will be in 15 February.  Spokesperson Zarakolu criticized, “As long ...