Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KAOS GL, McCORMICK Joseph Patrick, Pink Life
The Turkish capital city Ankara has banned all LGBT events, citing “public sensitivity”. The move comes a few days after a German gay film festival was banned from taking place in the city.
Any exhibitions, public performances, cultural events and cinema relating to LGBT people, have been (…)
, by JOHNSON Daniel
In Turkey, nationalist dogma and women’s subordination go hand in hand.
In early August 2017, two women in the Turkish city of Izmir sought help from police after being harassed on the street by a motorcyclist. One officer responded to the women’s plea by informing them: “That’s what they (…)
, by VERGIN Julia
Turkish professors who signed a call for peace are being charged with disseminating terrorist propaganda. Many are seeking refuge in Germany — but here too they face an uncertain future.
Dilek Dizdar still hasn’t received an indictment. A professor of intercultural German studies and (…)
, by BIRELMA Alpkan
This paper concerns the recent transformation and ensuing successes of a Turkish trade union of road transport workers, called Tüm Taşıma İşçileri Sendikası (TÜMTİS). In the mid-2000s TÜMTİS was mainly organized in traditional, small-sized delivery companies, which were under the pressure of the structural shift in the transportation sector towards large-sized corporations. At that time, the union had around 1,500 members with collective contracts. The revitalization began after a change in (...)
, by AYDIN Uraz
Even though the strong suspicions of fraud during the referendum on April 16, 2017 did not get much attention from the supporters of the AKP (the Justice and Development Party), the same cannot be said of the results, which were lower than all the forecasts. In fact, by comparison with previous (…)
, by BIA News Center
The number of women murders in Turkey increased by 1,400 percent within seven years. As far as divorce cases are concerned, 85 percent of all applications in Istanbul are related to violence.
The number of women murders in Turkey increased by factor 14 within a period of seven years. While 66 (…)
, by A Nazim
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 (…)
, by NAVARO Dario
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 (…)
, by HURTAS Sibel
Two court cases of “gay honor killings” in Turkey reveal a similar pattern of deep-rooted prejudice and social codes that override even the closest family bonds.
Two months ago, the Bar Association in Diyarbakir, the largest city of Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, received an application (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
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 (…)
, by IŞIKARA Güney, KAYSERILIOĞLU Alp, ZIRNGAST Max
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 (…)
, by Başlangıç
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 (…)
, by AYDIN Uraz, DJAGALOV Rossen
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, (…)
, by SHAHEEN Kareem
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 (…)
, by AFP
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, (…)
, by BATTY David
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, (…)
, by TURAN Nurcan
RESİSTANCE AGAINST AKP’S PATRIARCHAL ATTACK
Like every authoritarian government AKP has a special interest in suppressing women and children that gives them the opportunity to naturalise and justify its despotic and patriarchal rule. They have attempted to take back many rights of women since (…)
, by ANF, HDP (Turkey)
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 (…)
, by BAJALAN Djene Rhys
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 (…)
, by DIRIK Dilar
Kurdish women in one of the strongest and most radical women’s movements in the world are taking a battering from the Turkish state with impunity - as Europe looks the other way.
Ayla Akat Ata, spokeswoman of Free Women’s Congress (KJA), 8th March celebration 2014 when she was still an MP. (…)
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