With this year’s referendum consolidating President Erdogan’s autocracy in Turkey, Nazim A argues that the way forward for democrats lies in a more radical approach.
When (according to official figures) 51 per cent of Turkish voters voted in April’s referendum to extend the executive and (...)
Turkish Journalists, among others, have been subject to persistent repression.
The referendum vote on April 2017 approved the proposed constitutional amendments put forward by the ruling Justice and Development Party (JDP) and President Erdogan, moving Turkey from a parliamentary to a (...)
Thousands of opposition supporters chanted, “We know we won, we know they lost, we are not afraid”, in the streets of major cities after Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed victory in the 16 April referendum to strengthen presidential power, writes Phil Hearse.
Officially Erdogan won (...)
Tomorrow’s referendum in Turkey is about one thing: Erdoğan’s brazen bid for dictatorial power.
Tomorrow is a crucial day for Turkey. The past few years, marked by tumult and repression, have led up to a constitutional referendum that will help decide the country’s future. If approved, the (...)
Whatever happens tomorrow, the Left is in a better position than ever to challenge Erdoğan’s fragmented regime.
Only a few days are left before Turkey’s April 16th constitutional referendum on the transition to an authoritarian presidential system. Those who thought that the referendum would be (...)
Note from the LeftEast editors: For the last several months in Turkish politics, the party-state’s agenda has been dominated by two interconnected operations: consolidation of power and elimination of opposition. The former will culminate in the constitutional referendum of April 16 this year, (...)
Journalists, MPs and activists have been jailed ahead of vote on a system to grant sweeping powers to President Erdoğan.
Turkish opposition officials have warned of a campaign of harassment and intimidation by the government in the run-up to next month’s referendum on a presidential system that (...)
Asli Erdoğan bursts into tears as she describes spending 132 days in an Istanbul prison on account of her links to pro-Kurdish newspaper.
Asli Erdoğan, one of Turkey’s most celebrated novelists, was released from jail Thursday, looking exhausted after 132 days of pre-trial detention, declaring (...)
The novelist’s pre-trial imprisonment on terror charges has been condemned by lawyers and academics, who say there are no grounds for this extreme measure
The imprisonment of celebrated novelist Aslı Erdoğan breaches both Turkey’s constitution and the European convention on human rights, according (...)
HDP harshly condemned the twin blasts that hit a police target in Istanbul last night, and called for an immediate end to the politics, language and tone that produce more tension, polarization, hostility and conflict.
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Central Executive Committee released a (...)
There are frightening parallels between the Armenian genocide and the situation of Kurds in Turkey today.
On Sunday, April 24, 1915, Ottoman minister of the interior, Talat Pasha , ordered the arrest and detention of Armenian community leaders residing within the empire. On the first night of (...)
Turkish president Erdoğan is wielding the state to attack anyone who won’t capitulate to his authoritarian rule.
The house raids and detentions of prominent Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers on the night of November 3 capped off a week of massive assaults by the Turkish state against the (...)
In the absence of concerted international pressure on Turkey to rein in Erdogan’s authoritarianism, the only plausible outcome is further violence.
The political situation in Turkey continues to deteriorate in the wake of the attempted coup d’état in July 2016, allegedly organized by the Gülen (...)
Last night the purge of President Erdogan against our party has reached another peak: our Co-Chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yüksekdag, along with 11 further Members of Parliament of our party have been detained across Turkey last night. More arrests are to be expected. The goal of these (...)
Phil Hearse reports on the latest wave of arrests in Turkey.
Turkish police arrested November 2 the two co-chairs of the left-wing, pro-Kurdish, HDP (Peoples Democratic Party), and nine other HDP MPs. Arrest warrants for all the party’s 59 MPs have been issued.
After the raids to arrest (...)
Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been removed from their positions in public higher education institutions permanently!
In January 2016, 2,218 scholars from Turkey signed a petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime,” also known (...)
Selahattin Demirtaş foiled the Turkish president’s plan for absolute power.
ANKARA — Selahattin Demirtaş, Turkey’s most prominent Kurdish politician, appeared exhausted when I met him on a recent evening at his party’s headquarters in the capital.
Parliament had just gone into recess and his aides (...)
Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria on 24 August was flagged up as a move to drive the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) out of the border town of Jarabulus. But that is just a cover: Turkey’s not very secret major objective is to crush the 50,000-strong Kurdish YPG (people’s Protection Unit) (...)
In the last few hours reports have emerged that the Turkish army is bombing the Til-Emarne (al-Amarne) village of Jarablus with artillery fire and jets and also attacking YPG targets in Ain Diwar (eastern Rojava) and Afrin (western Rojava). Kurdish sources have reported dozens of civilian (...)
The epic blunder of the military coup attempt on July 15 has sent Turkey into a tailspin. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the prime minister and cabinet, the parliament, the top military brass, the intelligence community and the police all became aware of the plot at the same time as ordinary (...)
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