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From hosting negotiations between Russia and Ukraine through to threatening to block Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO, few countries have played such an active role on the world stage throughout Russia’s war on Ukraine as Turkey.
The first meeting of the Labour and Freedom Alliance. Inset: (...)
Joseph Daher warns that despite the Syrian official opposition’s claims, Turkey’s normalisation with Assad and its targeting of Syrian refugees reinforce that Erdogan is no ally when it comes to honouring the objectives sought by the 2011 uprising.
Widespread demonstrations recently took place (...)
Phil Hearse and Sarah Parker report on the betrayal of the Kurdish people as Erdoğan of Turkey uses the threat of veto on NATO membership for Finland and Sweden.
For a new country to join NATO, the agreement of all existing members is required. But until the beginning of July, Turkey’s (...)
President Erdogan withdrew Turkey from the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention last year, prompting anger from women’s rights groups.
A top administrative court in Turkey has ruled that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to pull the country out of a key European treaty protecting women (...)
“It is quite possible that a third bloc based on an alliance of the pro-Kurdish left party (HDP) with other parties of the revolutionary left will be formed. […] this bloc should not be limited to the ballot but should work on anti-capitalist positions for a unitive reconstruction of the radical (...)
As of today, the Istanbul convention ceases to be effective in Turkey. But that’s not the end of the story.
On March 20th, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, issued a midnight decree, annulling Turkey’s ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating (...)
“Is Turkey ready for the post-Erdogan era?” With the next parliamentary and presidential elections - normally - two years away, this question is already starting to be debated by various commentators and political analysts.
Leaving aside the wishful thinking, it is true that the Erdogan regime, (...)
While the discontent of relevant sections of the Turkish population with current government policies is growing, Turkish government has escalated its campaign of repression against the left-wing opposition party HDP. At this point, the reaction of moderate Turkish civil society actors will be (...)
The presidential decision on March 20th, at midnight, declaring that “Turkey has withdrawn from The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence”, commonly known as Istanbul Convention, has led the international community to turn their gaze (...)
Phil Hearse and Sarah Parker report on the Turkish State’s latest anti-democratic action.
Turkey’s leading left-wing formation, the Kurdish-led People’s Democratic Party (HDP), the third-largest party in parliament, was shut down on March 17 by the Turkish Constitutional Court, doubtless under (...)
It is not an exaggeration to say that the year 2020 has been a very challenging year for the women’s movement in Turkey, even without the severe consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, which added to the everyday problems of women in terms of social reproduction work, gender based violence and (...)
In an interview, Soli Özel explains the multifaceted nature of Turkey’s ambitions in the Middle East and North Africa.
Soli Özel is a senior lecturer at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. He has guest lectured at a variety of universities, including Georgetown, Harvard, Tufts, and has (...)
“The brutal murder of George Floyd by the police in the city of Minneapolis on May 25 led to an unprecedented mass protest wave in the US. We consider this great rebellion erupting in the heart of imperialism as a source of hope and inspiration for all of us. However, international solidarity (...)
Singer Helin Bolek, 28, of Grup Yorum, was protesting against government’s treatment of group
A member of a popular folk music group that is banned in Turkey has died on the 288th day of a hunger strike. The singer and a colleague had started the strike while imprisoned to protest at the (...)
Once again, Erdogan has decided to play the war card.
The Palace Regime, for whom there is no alternative except to take up arms against any sign of weakening or any defeat in order to consolidate itself, once again chooses to drag the country and all the peoples of the region into disaster (...)
At a teahouse in the tiny village of Karaibrahimler in Turkey’s lush north-western Biga Peninsula, older male residents sitting at a table debate with young environmentalists from Istanbul and the nearby town of Çanakkale about the adjacent gold and silver mining project.
Seven of the villagers (...)
Government pressure leaves agency silent despite claims of forced returns of LGBT refugees and others under police crackdown.
A Syrian with a gentle voice, and all her identity documents in order, Ward thought she could convince doctors in Istanbul, where she lived, to see her boyfriend, (...)
We Want to Live Together Initiative is a solidarity network advocating open borders, disclosing the consequences of border policies and making the problems of migrants visible. We strive to build a life together without discriminating between migrants and citizens. The initiative was formed in (...)
Regime says it is cracking down on anything linked to Fethullah Gülen, the Muslim cleric it blames for 2016’s attempted coup
More than 300,000 books have been removed from Turkish schools and libraries and destroyed since the attempted coup of 2016, according to Turkey’s ministry of education. (...)
Having been inspired by the great victory of the opposition against Islamist AKP in Istanbul municipal elections in 23 June 2019, several municipalities dared to show solidarity with Gay Pride in the following week. That a public office declared an open support for the Pride was something (...)
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