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, by Yunus
Mass demonstrations and harsh governmental crackdowns are not new in Turkish political history, however, although the current demonstrations in Istanbul and throughout Turkey were initiated by socialists, there is no doubt that we are experiencing something strikingly different this time, (…)
, by KILKENNY Allison
A relatively small protest at Turkey’s Gezi Park to prevent the ripping out of trees to make way for the building of a shopping mall has erupted into an uprising in which over 1,900 people have been arrested and reports of 1,700 more injured. Protesters say the harsh treatment by police, such as (…)
, par GAGNE Tom
Tom Gagné explains how small protests to stop the demolition of a park in Istanbul snowballed into a challenge to the government and its machinery of repression.
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AFTER A day filled with police violence against unarmed, peaceful occupiers and protesters, one of my old (…)
, by Correspondent(s)
Izmir, Turkey is a city known for its temperate climate and long history as a vacation spot during the Greek, Roman and Byzantine empires. Today, the tourists still find Izmir a lovely destination. However, recently many found themselves smack in the middle of street protests against the Prime (…)
, by Müştereklerimiz
Many words are about to be spent on these four days. Lots of things will be written, and many grandiose political analysis are surely on their way.
But what has really happened these four days?
The resistance for Gezi Park ignited the collective capacity to organize and act between us common (…)
, by LETSCH Constanze
Demonstrations against Erdogan government in several cities as riot officers use tear gas to control protesters in Istanbul.
Turkey has been engulfed by a series of protests across several cities after riot police turned Istanbul’s busiest city centre hub into a battleground, deploying tear (…)
, by SAVRAN Sungur
Istanbul has become a battlefield covered by tear gas. The police, no doubt at the behest of the Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP government, have been attacking protestors in the centre of the city, near Taksim Square, for five consecutive days. This would have been no news at all: (…)
, by ILYAS TOLUNAY Ozlem
The on-going resistance to the remodeling of Taksim Square in Central Istanbul, Turkey took on a new more militant form on Monday evening when bulldozers arrived at the park and began demolishing some parts of the Gezi Park’s wall and removed nearby trees. Taksim Solidarity, the resistance (…)
, by SEYMOUR Richard
A protest in a small Istanbul park has become a lightning rod for grievances against the government, and it could be explosive.
This morning, Turkish police surrounded protesters in Taksim Gezi park , the central square in Istanbul, blocked all exits and attacked them with chemical sprays and (…)
, by ARSU Sebnem
ISTANBUL — A court here handed down a suspended 10-month prison term on Monday for Fazil Say, an internationally acclaimed Turkish pianist and composer convicted of insulting Islam and offending Muslims in postings on Twitter.
Mr. Say, 42, who has performed with major orchestras in places (…)
, by JEFROUDI Maral
On the 21st of February, Berfo Ana, the mother of Cemil Kirbayir, who “disappeared” while in custody during the 1980 military coup died at the age of 105 in Istanbul. She was one of the “Saturday Mothers’ who have been gathering in Galatasaray Square in Istanbul on Saturdays since 1995, for 17 (…)
, by NPA / NPA l’Anticapitaliste
Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan (Rojbin) and Leyla Soleymez were executed yesterday [Wednesday 9] afternoon at the CIK, the Kurdistan Information Centre.
This horrible assassination takes place at a time when the Turkish government has begun direct talks with [imprisoned PKK leader] Abdullah (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
While in Istanbul last week I participated in a march and demonstration by the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ODP) on Dec. 9 to launch a campaign to link grassroots community organizations to a broader program for social and political change in Turkey. The march of hundreds of ODP members of all (…)
, by Khrag (Kurds-SA)
The arrest and detention by the French authorities of Adem Uzun, a leading member of the the Kurdish community and a human rights activists, is a violation of his fundamental human rights. These human rights are contained in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and (…)
, by LabourStart
A LabourStart campaign in partnership with International Trade Union Confederation, which represents 175 million workers in 153 countries and territories and has 308 national affiliates.
Correction: It was earlier reported that all 69 trade unionists were women; this is not the case. We (…)
, by LEAKE Adam
This essay will seek to address the main cleavages that exist within the feminist movements of Turkey. These cleavages have become most apparent following the second wave of feminism which occurred following the 1980 military coup d’état and are considered to exists in three forms.
Arguably (…)
, by LabourStart
A LabourStart campaign in partnership with International Trade Union Confederation, which represents 175 million workers in 153 countries and territories and has 308 national affiliates, and the following global union federations: EI, ITF, PSI and IUF.
, by Petition / Sign-on Letter
TO THE POLICIES OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY THAT TARGET GENDER EQUALITY, WOMEN’S BODIES, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, AND SEXUALITY, OUR RESPONSE IS A RESOUNDING “NO!”
We demand that the process to ban abortion be ceased IMMEDIATELY!
• Banning abortion or further limiting the (…)
, by Istanbul Feminist Collective
Abortion is a Right, Decision Belongs to Women
Abortion right has been put under attack in Turkey by the Prime Minister Erdoğan repeatedly saying “I see abortion as murder”. He then outrageously likened abortion to Uludere, the village in Turkey’s Iraqi border where 34 Kurdish civilians were (…)
, by AHMADI Arash
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described abortion as tantamount to “murder”, angering women’s rights groups and sparking an intense debate in the mainly Muslim nation.
In line with Mr Erdogan’s comments, Turkey’s health minister proposed a change in the abortion law, which (…)
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