The Guardian: Turkey mine disaster – grief turns to rage as hopes of finding...
Turkey has been plunged into grief and swelling anger after an explosion in a coalmine in the west of the country left at least 274 people dead, amid fears that the bodies of scores more people still...
View ArticleThe Independent: Turkey coal mine explosion: Violence erupts in Ankara after...
A stream of ambulances continued to bring the dead from the Turkey’s Soma mine today. The bodies are carried 2km from inside the mine by a stream of volunteers — many of who are miners themselves. As...
View ArticleThe Guardian: Turkey swept by protests as anger grows over fatal mine explosion
Anger at the deadly mine explosion in Turkey spread across the country on Thursday as thousands of workers joined a protest strike, demonstrators clashed with security forces, and families began to...
View ArticleABC NEWS: Turkish coalmine disaster: Mass funerals held for Soma mine workers...
Anger at the deadly mine explosion in Turkey spread across the country on Thursday as thousands of workers joined a protest strike, demonstrators clashed with security forces, and families began to...
View ArticleThe Guardian: Man shot dead at funeral as police and protesters clash in...
Local residents in Okmeydani – a predominantly Alevi neighbourhood – spoke of a recent increase in clashes between the police and protesters. “There is teargas almost every night,” one resident said....
View ArticleBBC News: Turkey PM Erdogan warns youth to ignore Taksim anniversary
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged young Turks to ignore calls to mark the first anniversary of Istanbul’s Taksim Square protests. He was speaking ahead of nationwide demonstrations planned for...
View ArticleBianet: Our new paramilitaries, “Trust Teams”– Ekin Karaca
I saw the people called “Trust Teams”, whom one doesn’t even recognize to be police officers, for the first time at a social event. They put on their show in the first year commemorations of the Gezi...
View ArticleDHA: Gezi’s ‘girl with red foulard’ joins PKK
Ayşe Deniz Karacagil, better known as ‘the girl with red foulard’ in anti-government Gezi Park protest, joined the PKK, it emerged after she faced a sentence of up to 98 years in prison following her...
View ArticleThe Guardian: Erdoğan’s win in Turkey heralds a surprising rise in the new left
‘Teflon Tayyip’ has bounced back to win the Turkish presidency but a new leftist party may be the success story of the election They call him “Teflon Tayyip”. The man who can face down the challenge of...
View ArticleUrgent Call from Turkey’s Human Rights Organizations to the International...
You can download the statement here in English, here in Turkish. With the interruption of the peace talks, the government of Turkey started, in mid-August, to implement a security policy that...
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