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In Turkey, when legislative developments regarding abortion since the establishment of the Republic are examined, it is possible to map out three distinct phases starting from a phase of abortion ban to a phase when abortion was legalized within the first ten weeks of pregnancy. (…)
, by MAROIS Thomas
Turkey has been touted as one of the great ‘emerging market’ success stories. As the advanced capitalisms like the US and UK sunk into the Great Recession, Turkey pulled out of crisis earning the moniker of a key ‘growth market’ in 2011 by Jim O’Neill, the chair of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (…)
, by TASPINAR Ömer
Editor’s Note: The following is a chapter written by Ömer Taşpınar from the book, The Islamists Are Coming: Who They Really Are, co-published by the Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace.
In the twenty-first century, Turkey is arguably the most dynamic experiment with political Islam (…)
, by LabourStart
A LabourStart Campaign in partnership with the Education International, the world’s largest federation of unions, representing thirty million education employees in about four hundred organisations in one hundred and seventy countries and territories, across the globe. (…)
, by BAKKALCI Metin, Peace Assembly of Turkey
We are reproducing below a letter from the Peace Assembly of Turkey, an independent initiative, voicing their concerns regarding the evolution of the situation of the Kurds.
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12th December 2011
Mr. …….
Dear Mr……..
I am writing on behalf of The Peace Assembly of (…)
, by LabourStart
A labour Start Campaign in partnership with the International Metalworkers Federation, which represents the collective interests of 25 million metalworkers from more than 200 unions in 100 countries. The IMF is a federation of national metalworkers’ unions - a ‘union of unions’ at world level, (…)
, by Yeniyol (New Course for Socialist Democracy)
It is an old reflex of Turkey’s state tradition to collectively imprison political figures who express the desires of the Kurdish people. Collective arrests started in 1959 with the imprisonment of forty-nine Kurdish intellectuals and turned into collective executions in the 1990s. Now—during (…)
, by Petition / Sign-on Letter
The international public has so far been oblivious to the so-called “KCK operations” carried out in Turkey by Prime Minister Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party for the past two years. Under the guise of “fighting terrorism,” the Erdogan government has been using the judiciary, the (…)
, by LabourStart
Savranoglu Leather and Kampana Leather are two factories owned by same employer. Savranoglu is situated in Izmir and Kampana is situated in Istanbul. For over 6 months Deri-Is has been waging an intense struggle against the anti-union attitudes of the employer.
The union organized the Kampana (…)
, by Kyodo News
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan asked Turkey on Tuesday to continue with talks on a nuclear power plant deal in the latter country, while confirming with the United States plans to strengthen technical cooperation on nuclear power between the two countries.
The move came during talks between Japan’s (…)
Today’s Turkey bears little resemblance to its former self. The 20th century Turkey was a staunch U.S. ally, unconditionally committed to join the European community, fiercely secularist, authoritarian and repressive, economically troubled, aloof to its regional Arab neighbors, and occasionally (…)
, by AHMAD Aijaz, PURKAYASTHA Prabir
PART 1
Aijaz Ahmad: Israel, which is completely isolated in the region, is very unhappy about the fact that Turkey is rising as a power which is establishing very productive and extensive contacts in the region. Israel was very happy when both of them were completely isolated in the region: (…)
, by CIRAK Umit
Since the military coup of September 12, 1980, two underlying processes have structured Turkey’s political and social evolution: the development of Turkish capitalism in the direction of greater integration in globalized capitalism, and the sharpening of the Kurdish national question.
These (…)
, by TASKIN Yuksel
Under the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey is carving out a greater role for itself in Middle Eastern affairs. Since 2008, Turkey has sought the role of Middle East intermediary in trying to broker a peace agreement between Israel and Syria and to resolve the Iranian (…)
, by LabourStart
Five trade unionists belonging to PSI [PSI: Public Services International, the global union federation for public sector workers: [http://www.world-psi.org] – affiliates in Turkey are currently in prison on trumped up accusations of “belonging to illegal or terrorist organisations” or making (…)
, by Disk, GORGUN Tayfun
We reproduce below the Solidarity Statement of DISK (Progressive Workes Trade Union Confederation of Turkey) with the Greek General Strike. Also this evening there will be a solidarity demonstration in front of Greek Consulate in Taksim, Istanbul.
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Today, on 5th (…)
, by OZER Eyup
The public sector in Turkey is always seen as the best employment opportunity for people who are looking for a secure job. But with the neo-liberal policies which are going on for some time in Turkey, public sector is now mostly known by worker resistances against its precarious employment (…)
, par OZCAN Gülden, SAVRAN Sungur
The strike of Turkish workers across the winter of 2009-10 at Tekel, a former state enterprise in the tobacco and alcoholic beverage sector, has attracted the attention of the left and unions around the world. The Tekel workers have demonstrated incredible tenacity and courage in confronting (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Dear all,
Many of you already know the situation of TEKEL workers in Turkey. On 12th of February Presidents of 4 union confederations (TÜRK-İŞ, DİSK, KAMU-SEN, KESK) had a meeting in order to discuss common actions to support TEKEL workers.
In that meeting they decided to bring (…)
, by SAVRAN Sungur
After at least a decade and a half of stagnation, the working class movement of Turkey is making a great stride forward, thanks to the militant action of the workers of a now privatised former state economic enterprise, Tekel, the state monopoly of tobacco and alcoholic beverages. The resolute (…)
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