Category Archives: Turkey

We won’t accept oppression, and we won’t bow to censorship: Sendika.Org will not be silenced!

To the attention of friend and foe alike:

Amid its murder of socialist youth via the jihadist gangs that it has fed at the cost of many lives in the Middle East, its call to war amid the bombing of Kandil, as well as its operations against socialists and the Kurdistan Freedom Movement under the pretext of fighting ISIL, the AKP has not hesitated to also impose draconian censorship measures.

While giving the order for war, war criminals Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu have also moved to silence the free press. On the morning of 25 July, access to Sendika.Org, ANF, ANHA, DİHA, Rojnews, Yüksekova Haber, Özgür Gündem and BestaNuçe was all blocked. Continue reading →

AKP-backed ISIL group massacres at least 30 in southeastern Turkey

Sendika.Org

At least 30 people were killed and 76 more were injured after a suspected member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) staged a suicide bombing against members of a socialist youth federation as they prepared to travel to Kobane to help in the city’s reconstruction.

The blast targeted members of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) at around 13.00 local time at the Amara Cultural Center in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa’s Suruç district, which lies directly across from Kobane in Rojava. Continue reading →

People’s Houses Call for International Solidarity with the struggle in Turkey

PEOPLE’S HOUSES:
WE URGE THE PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
FOR URGENT SOLIDARITY ACTIONS WITH PEOPLE OF TURKEY!

Dear brothers and sisters, dear friends of the democratic people’s movement in Turkey!

Istanbulites are under brutal attack and violence of the police and gendarmarie forces since 15th June evening when the police attack against Gezi Park? started after the heavy provocations of PM Erdogan. The city is under clouds of tear gas of all kinds, including the prohibited kinds, used over all limits. Taksim square looks like a war field and now is closed to public access. Rubber bullets, water cannons scorching chemicals-acid and blast bombs are widely utilized until the first hours of this morning. There are queues of naked people waiting for aid in front of hospitals, yet hospitals and hotels that are used as shelters are also attacked with gas, over and over. Hotels around Taksim square are being evacuated due to extreme use of gas; numerous children are lost and heavily affected during the tear gas attack; a pregnant women lost her 3,5 months old baby. 132 people are reported to be seriously injured and 5 people are burnt due to chemical use. Continue reading →

“We are all Turkish democrats”: A Statement of Solidarity with the Turkish Struggle

10 June 2013
Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA Press Statement

“We are all Turkish democrats”: A Statement of Solidarity with the Turkish Struggle

Abahlali baseMjondolo is a democratic, membership based movement of shack dwellers and other poor people in South Africa. In 2005 our experience of suffering and injustice led us to decided to organize ourselves and to represent ourselves. We are struggling for land and housing as a vital step towards the restoration of our dignity and the recognition of our equality. We have been severely punished by those who want to keep us in our place and we have faced serious repression.

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Urgent Call for Solidarity with the Struggle in Turkey

URGENT CALL FOR ACTIVE SOLIDARITY ACTION
TO STOP BRUTALITY IN TURKEY!

Dear comrades, friends, sisters and brothers of our movement!
This is an urgent call for more active international solidarity actions with people who resist in all cities and towns of Turkey for 10 days for their democratic rights.

Prime Minister Erdogan and his government is attacking people who try to voice their democratic reactions and demands in all city squares with tear gas, water cannons, other despotic measures and civil war threads for 10 days.

According to the Turkish Medical Association’s first hand data, as of 5th June, 3 people are dead; in total 4355 people applied for injuries, 10 persons lost their eyes and 3 people are in life critical condition because of anti-riot police brutality. Even on 6th June, the day when the delegation for Gezi Park? met with Vice Prime Minister, in various cities, in the first place Ankara, deadly attacks of the anti-riot police against peaceful demonstrations continued without a break. Continue reading →