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international / health / disability issues / news report Wednesday July 08, 2009 10:54 by Sevinch Karaca
In recent weeks, EI member organisation Egitim-Sen and the Confederation of Public Employees’ Unions (KESK) .. have suffered a series of attacks by the Turkish authorities, including the occupation and searches of the trade union premises by the security forces, arrest and preventive detention of trade union leaders and the use of excessive violence by the police against teachers demonstrating peacefully (...) On 29 May 2009, EI, together with the ITUC, wrote to the Turkish Government to protest against these anti-union attacks. Egitim-Sen and KESK received support from many trade union organisations around the world. However the authorities disregarded the international appeals to stop the attacks. Join EI in our appeal to stop the attacks on trade unions! There are currently still 22 Egitim-Sen and KESK officials in detention, including the women secretaries of both organisations. Go to www.ei-ie.org/turkey to read/sign Urgent Action Appeal.. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday October 06, 2008 22:28 by Bazooka Joe
On Sunday tens of thousands across Turkey attended the funerals of soldiers slain by the PKK. 15 soldiers were killed, twenty wounded and two are missing after the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) launched a cross border attack from their base in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday August 18, 2008 18:23 by pat c
Here is the case of Farzad Kamangar. teacher, trade unionist, human rights activist. Sentenced to death by a kangaroo court. You can help to save his life. Full text at link. Farzad Kamangar, a 33-year old teacher and trade unionist from the Kurdistan Province of Iran, is at risk of execution following an unfair trial.In recent weeks, Education InternationaI has written to the Iranian Government to request a fair trial for Farzad Kamangar and other union activists who are under arrest. In spite of joint efforts from various national and international organisations to have death sentence of Farzad Kamangar communted, it was upheld by the Supreme Court on 11 July 2008. In addition, Iranian trade union colleagues and human rights activists who show solidarity with Farzad are being subjected to pervasive intimidation by the Iranian authorities. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday June 11, 2008 11:34 by Sevinc Karaca
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Every Turkish man who reach 20 has to do a mandatory service of 16 months in the Turkish Army. A group of Turkish men, including Mehmet have been rejecting to comply with it. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Friday April 04, 2008 00:56 by tolerant to a point of tactical appreciation
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The PKK were included in 2002 on the list of terrorist organisations held by the EU. It's a long list. But the decision has now been anulled by the second highest judicial bench in Europe which sits in Luxembourg. There are complex (as always) reasons for this. Without going into it too much, & thus distracting you from reading the judgement in its entirety, I'd just mention the non-desirability of seeing a post-US occupied Iraq divided between Turkey and Iran after the former argued they were containing the PKK terrorists. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday November 16, 2007 12:09 by Reductio Ad Absurdum
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Tony Blair had self-nominated David Miliband to take up the cudgels of office in the wake of his departure from office, but apart from creating a few little ripples the whole idea was a non-starter for Blair and for Miliband. He got placed, instead in Britain's Foreign Office and last night he began to use his office to 'make speeches' , which are both unbelievably crass and inopportune. They involve beligerence against an already pissed off Putin and a diplomatic word to 'Keep our promises to Turkey', meanwhile in Turkey, a political party with connections to the PKK is being banned. We all know what that means in Ireland.. Reductio ad Absurdum.:Reduce debate, achieve political consensus and sell off assets to benefit the wealthy. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday October 30, 2007 22:19 by Paula Geraghty
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Kurds protest at the Dáil as Turkey plans to attack Northern Iraq, while the American controlled Iraq will let tham in order to capture PKK resistance fighters. http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx- link to IT article by Lara Marlowe on Turkish plans. read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 30, 2007 14:38 by Ender Yılmaz & José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
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An member of the WSM and the Turkish anarchist organization AKI look at the crisis in Turkey, a crisis pushed further into the spotlight since this article was written by the threats to invade Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkish politics are full of contradictions and paradoxical situations. But the bottom line is that both the “democratic” political Islam as well as the “authoritarian” army are elite alternatives opposed to the basic interests of workers, that have agreed on the fundamentals and will likely keep agreeing in maintaining the repressive political structures of the Kemalist state, read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 09, 2007 22:51 by Hevallo Azad
Turkish Special Forces recently carried out a covert killing of Kurdish Village Guards, state sponsored miltias. This was blamed on the Kurdish Freedom Fighters of the PKK and publicised worldwide. But the truth is that this massacre was carried out by the Turkish authorities, as a pre text to a full scale planned invasion of Kurdistan that is being discussed by Turkish authorities tonight and will be presented to the Turkish parliament tomorrow. read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / press release Saturday November 11, 2006 04:25 by Internationale
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Ballymoney Sinn Féin Councillor Daithí McKay has said that the EU must make the upholding of human rights and democracy for the Kurdish people a pre-condition of Turkish admittance to the European Union. Speaking after completing a 4-day tour of Turkish Kurdistan representing Ógra Shinn Féin Councillor McKay said: "Turkey's treatment of the Kurdish people has been totally abhorrent and it's efforts to deny this sizeable minority their human rights has been plain to see. After one of the public debates I took part in Diyarbakir this week a number of international speakers, including myself, had our passports seized and photocopied by the police. This was just one example of how Turkey's Article 301 is used to threaten citizens for engaging in free speech criticising the government. Another example was when we were warned not to say the word 'Kurdistan' during a radio interview as the Government would have the radio station shut down. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday August 13, 2004 16:55 by NEFAC
When a state is determined to pursue war, and all forms of indirect symbolic protest actions have failed to sway politicians to halt their imperialist aggression, the only remaining option is direct action by the working class. One option is a general strike by workers that can effect the production and transpiration of military capital, that is the materials essential for the war machine. The other is to deprive the military of the labor it needs to fight the war. read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 20, 2004 20:45 by Mark Paul
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As a freelance journalist with an interest in anti-globalisation issues, I wrote an article about the tabloid coverage and hype in the run-up to Mayday. Two of the Sunday broadsheets initially showed interest in it, but then rejected it upon reading it. I don't subscribe to the idea that all journalists are spineless etc. etc. etc.......... However, I do feel that it was a balanced article. Yet the media still wouldn't touch it. As a part of the media, I feel that there is the need for reasonable, sensible debate on the role the mainstream media plays, how it can be improved, and comments from other sections of the media would be a good start. read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / opinion/analysis Monday April 05, 2004 14:30 by Spitfire Mk III
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Sinister masked gang use the words of ex Iraqi Minister of Information 'Comical Ali' to recruit members for Dublin City Riot. Members all wear distinctive 'Dublin City Riot' gang colours and arm themselves with long sticks. read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / press release Friday March 26, 2004 15:19 by Dublin Grassroots Nework
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One of the main groups organising protests against Dublin's EU summit in May has criticised an anonymous smear campaign aimed at undermining the right to protest. In a statement issued today, Dublin Grassroots said "For the past few weeks the national media has been drip-fed with anonymous allegations claiming that protestors are only interested in violence and destruction." read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 10, 2004 17:05 by James O'Brien
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Last Sunday, Feb 8th, Ireland on Sunday published a scare story about anarchism and the forthcoming EU protests. Below is a reply. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday October 08, 2003 18:16 by Dominic Carroll
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The Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis in Killarney this Saturday presents a useful opportunity to protest against government collusion in the war against, and continued occupation of, Iraq. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday October 08, 2003 17:06 by Dominic Carroll
The Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis in Killarney this Saturday presents a useful opportunity to protest against government collusion in the war against, and continued occupation of, Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday October 06, 2003 21:54 by Dominic Carroll
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Turkey is to join in with the occupation of Iraq. The decision by the Turkish cabinet to send 10,000 troops into Iraq came today (Monday 6 October 2003) after agreement on an “action-plan to eradicate the PKK” was agreed with the US. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 17, 2003 04:55 by john throne
27 comments (last - monday september 22, 2003 14:31)
The occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are not going according to the Whitehouse plan. A quagmire and defeat is increasingly looking to be the fate that faces imperialism. For the international working class and anti capitalist movement a victory for ther islamic fundamentalists in these countries would enormously complicate the world situation. In this statement from Labors Militant Voice we argue that the working class movement internationally should be linking with the workers movement in Iraq with the view to help is to take the leadership of the struggle to defeat the occupations and to build a new middle east free from imperialist domination and based instead on societies where the wealth is owned and utilised collectively and where decisions are made on the basis of the needs of the population and taken collectively and democratically. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday July 15, 2003 17:33 by Meryem
The DHKC (Revolutionary People's Liberation Front) has issued a statement dated July 10 marking the 1000th day of the Death Fast, a hunger strike protest started to oppose ther introduction of solitary confinement in isolation cells in Turkey's prisons. The statement describes the background to the protest and comments on the behaviour of various political forces inside and outside Turkey during this period. read full story / add a comment |
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