UPOTUDAK

Stop the extradition of Turgut Kaya by the Greek government to Turkey. On May 30th the Athens Supreme Court of Justice passed its judgment and recommendation in favour of extradition to Turkey of Turgut Kaya, a Turkish national. Turgut Kaya is a revolutionary journalist and author with over 20 years record of struggle for democracy and human rights in Turkey. ...

Friends, comrades; Today, in the Greek court, it was decided to process extradite to the fascist Turkish state. The decision is meaningful in the sense of showing how reactionary states become partners when it comes to negotiation. Because the same court decided not to extradite the Turkish officers who organised the fascist coup. This shows how the reactionary states collaborate ...

UPOTUDAK | Turgut Kaya, who was arrested by the Greek state in April 2018 on an Interpol search warrant remains in custody.  The trail of Kaya’s extradition to Turkey, which took place on May 15th was adjourned without a ruling to May 30th. We demand the immediate release of Turgut Kaya.  Kaya was arrested for the first time by the ...

NEWS CENTRE|15.10.2017|Resistance is not Terrorism!: We shall all support the just resistance of 10 ATIK (Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe) activists who has been going through an unjust trial. We, as ATIK invite all progressive, democrats and anti-imperialist and anti-fascist groups and organisations in Europe to extend their solidarity with right of resistance on international basis of revolutionaries ...

Mehmet Yeşilçalı and 9 other detainees are being sued at the Munich High Court since 17 June 2016 for accusations of membership of the. Mehmet was arrested on 15th April 2015 in Switzerland where he lived and was extradited to Germany approximately a year later on 8th March 2016. Since that date he is detained at the Munich-Stadelheim prison. Mehmet’s advocates have demanded on 21st March ...

GERMAN PENAL CODE 129/a-b SHALL BE REMOVED! Initiated by the German ministry of justice, in 2012, a Europe wide investigation started on ATIK (Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe) directors who are alleged members of TKP/ML (Communist Party of Turkey/ Marxist-Leninist). On 15th April 2015 the first stage of the police operations took place resulting in an arrest of ...

UPOTUDAK | 21 – 06 – 2015 | UPOTUDAK has published a statement about the revolutionaries who were arrested in the operations against the Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe (ATİK) and New Woman (Yeni Kadın). Upudotak made a call to demonstrate in front of the prisons,send letters and expend the petition campaign.International Political Prisoners Solidarity committee (UPOTUDAK)published a ...

BREMEN | Our organisation sends its solidarity to ATIK and the 10 comrades who were arrested on the 15th April in Germany and in Switzerland. We know the arbitrariness and unjustness of the German and Swiss government from our experience of their treatment of supporters of the Tamil liberation struggle. These kinds of actions are intended to strike fear into ...

On April 15 the German police arrested 7 ATIK members in a simultaneously executed violent raid on several houses. This operation was not only restricted to Germany but also jumped to Switzerland, France and Greece lead to the arrest of one person in Switzerland, one in France and 3 in Greece, with a total of 12 persons arrested. This operation ...

GERMANY | 15-04-2015 | WE CONDEMN THE ATTACK ON THE ACTIVISTS AND LEADERSHIP OF ATIK AND NEW WOMEN!  Today Wednesday around 17:30 police special forces  have staged a simultaneous attack on ATİK and New Women activists and leadership in Nurnberg (Germany) and in Switzerland. According to the statement issued by the ATİK Legal  office, this operation was ordered by the Karlsruhe public ...