PKK Leader Calls for Ceasefire in Turkey
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed Kurdish rebel leader, has issued a long-awaited ceasefire declaration that would be a major step towards ending a 30-year conflict that has cost around 40,000 lives in...
View ArticleGreece Becomes Outpost in Turkey’s “Anti-Terror” Campaign
Zeki Gorbuz, a Turkish asylum seeker in Greece, who was arrested on Feb. 12, remains detained today due to an international warrant that was transmitted by Turkish authorities to Greece just one day...
View ArticleWorkers Strike in Support of Turkey Protests
Thousands of public sector workers in Turkey are on a two-day strike in support of anti-government demonstrations. The strike was called by The Public Workers Unions Confederation in response to “state...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U.N. Urges Turkish Police to Exercise “Restraint”
Turkish police have been using excessive force against unarmed protestors. Credit: Arzu Geybulla/IPSUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay...
View ArticleOP-ED: Islam Is Not the Solution to What Ails the Middle East
During the decades when Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was a barely tolerated opposition party, it campaigned against the reigning secular autocrats under the banner “Islam is the solution.” With the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Turkish Women Push Back Against Patriarchy
A woman collapses in front of a police barricade during one of the Occupy Gezi protests. Credit: Arzu Geybulla/IPSAmong the many issues bringing protestors together at Gezi Park, the now-iconic site of...
View ArticleTurkey’s Reform Package Gets Tepid Reception
By Alexander Christie-MillerISTANBUL, Oct 4 2013 (EurasiaNet) Turkey’s new democratisation reform package may mark a step forward for civil rights, but it does not go far enough to ease social tension...
View ArticleIraq Looking for an ‘Independent’ Sunni Defense Minister
By Barbara SlavinWASHINGTON, Sep 27 2014 (IPS)Iraqi President Fouad Massoum said this past week that the government was looking for an independent Sunni Muslim to fill the post of defense minister in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Istanbul’s Citizens Discover Green Solidarity
Police barricade in Gezi Park – one of the last green spaces in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district and an “oasis” in Taksim Square, a large stone plaza of mostly open space with a few statues, fountains and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kurdish Civil Society Against Use of Arms to Gain Autonomy
Open market in the southeastern Turkish city of Dyarbakir, capital of the Kurds in Turkey. The city has been a focal point for conflicts between the government and Kurdish movements. December 2014....
View Article
