The Association for Solidarity with the Families of Prisoners (TUAD) and the prison committee of the Association of Liberal Lawyers (ÖHD) have released a written statement following the visit their executives paid to the prisoners on hunger strike in Tekirdağ F Type Prison No 2 on Monday. Giving information about the situation of prisoners on strike, TUAD and ÖHD said that the inmates involved in the strike ...

Twenty-one inmates in Tekirdağ F Type Prison No 2 have been on indefinite-irreversible hunger strike since 25 March to protest against the impositions of the prison administration. Nineteen of the striking inmates are tried in PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) case and two others in Revolutionary Headquarters Organization case. According to the information provided by the family of a prisoner on strike, Ferdi Ç ...

Sixty students were taken into custody and seven others were injured at Dicle University on Wednesday, on the third day of severe clashes between Kurdish and radical Islamist groups. The incidents in the campus in the main Kurdish city Diyarbakır first broke out as a result of a quarrel during the Holy Birth Week activities on the birth of the Prophet Muhammad. A number of police forces and armored vehicles ...

Twenty two KESK (Confederation of Public Workers' Unions) trade unionists were released yesterday following the first hearing of the case against 72 executives and members of the Confederation. Seventy two unionist, included the general president, Lami Özgen, who appeared in court yesterday were taken into custody as a result of the "KCK/Democratic Labor Platform" operation which was carried out in the prov ...

Tension continues at the campus of Dicle University in Diyarbakır where a group, reportedly involving pro-Hezbollah people who aren't studying at the university, attacked a group of Kurdish patriotic and left-wing students on Monday. Hundreds of students have gathered in the campus area today to protest against yesterday's attack. The protest demo which was also joined by members of Eğitim-Sen union was att ...

In a statement released on Tuesday, KESK (Confederation of Public Workers' Unions) announced that today it will hold a press conference before the first hearing of the case against 72 executives and members of the Confederation on Wednesday. KESK said that the press conference will also be joined by Frank Williams, representative of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Ulrich Thöne, Presid ...

A chief prosecutor has asked for the closure of 10 local associations in the province of Van. The prosecutor said the associations are linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The lawsuit comes just after the approval of the  "Preventing Financing Terrorism Law", which commentators said is aimed at Kurdish businessmen. The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) dubbed this law "genocide law". The law was appr ...

The Union of Office Workers, BES, will go on a general strike in Ankara on 27 February to protest against the AKP government's current policies on taxes and wages. With the general strike BES will demand a humane life, secured work and future and justice on taxes and wages. Speaking to ANF about the general strike, BES President Ahmet Kesik said that the strike was part of the action program BES launched co ...

Hundreds of KESK (Confederation of Public Workers' Unions) members gathered in front of the Ankara Courthouse on Friday to demand the release of public workers arrested in the most recent operation carried out in 28 cities on 19 February. Speaking at a press conference in front of the Courthouse, KESK President Lami Özgen said that the ruling AKP government's criminalization operations against the Confedera ...

Fifty five people have been arrested so far in the scope of the operation against the Confederation of Public Workers' Unions (KESK) which was carried out in 28 cities on 19 February. Around 150 people had been taken into custody in the operation. 31 out of 54 people detained in Istanbul have been remanded in custody, while six were released and imposed a ban on leaving the country. Nine out of 13 others wh ...