Turkey
Over 1,000 Fake Life Jackets Found in Raid on Turkish Workshop Staffed with Syrian Children
Source: RT Human Wrongs Watch 7 January 2016 (RT)* – Turkey’s black market economy is benefiting from the mass influx of Syrian refugees into the country, with a recent raid on life jacket manufacturing facility revealing the exploitation of a child workforce along with hundreds of dangerously poor-quality vests. »
War with Russia or with ISIS: What ever happened to peace?
War with Russia or with ISIS: What ever happened to peace? By David Swanson http://davidswanson.org/node/4994 According to the Nation magazine and many others, there are two options available to the U.S. government. One is increased hostility perhaps leading to nuclear war with Russia. The other… »
Turkey seeks to reduce tensions with Russia after aircraft downing
Ankara, Nov 27 (Prensa Latina) Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called to reduce tensions between his country and Russia, after the downing of a Russian aircraft in Syria, although he said that “the measures to defend our territory will remain in place” Davutoglu told the British press that it was… »
Turkish hospitals are being converted into war zones
IPPNW Vice-President Dr. Angelika Claussen reports from Turkey. With elections approaching, a 15-member delegation including politicians, journalists, doctors, human rights campaigners and trade-union officials from Germany, Austria and the Netherlands visited the cities Diyarbarkir, Cizre, Nusaybin, Silvan and Mardin in Turkey. They were invited by the peace block of Turkey,… »
Lesbos Island, Greece: refugees arrive from Turkey
The images from this exceptional photo-report by Maro Kourí from the island of Lesbos, sent to us by Jai Mexis, say more than a thousand words ever could: entire families arrive every day in improvised boats coming from Turkey and they walk for kilometers, even with children, to reach the… »
Turkey: Enough bloody politics
Around one hundred people died and many more were injured in an explosion that took place in Ankara, Turkey in an event with the slogan “Against War, Peace Now”. The intention of this attack was to terrorise not only those on the demonstration but the whole of society. The murderers… »
International Military Review – Syria, Sep. 21, 2015: Forecasting the Syrian War
The trajectory of the Syrian Civil War could fundamentally shift within in the nearest future. Rebel factions led by Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra continue to pressure the Syrian government stronghold along the Alawite Coast following a several-month long campaign to expel Syrian Armed Forces… »
Turkey snap elections set for the 1st of November
The Turkish election board confirmed that snap elections, which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for earlier this week, will be held on November 1. Erdogan called for a new election after an inconclusive vote in June, and the collapse of coalition-building efforts. He said last week that the election was… »
Turkey moves against authoritarianism
It seems that the Syriza-effect has gone beyond Greece and extended to its Turkish neighbour. Election results from the country show that no party gained a majority, much to the annoyance of the leading party, the AKP, that was aiming to achieve a super-majority in order to make constitutional changes,… »
Union activists to meet in Ankara for Kaos GL symposium
Union activists from Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Northern Cyprus, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom will meet in Ankara for Kaos GL Association’s 3rd International Symposium against Discrimination. The 3rd International Symposium against Discriminations will be organized by Kaos GL Association in Ankara on December 13-14. The symposium will take place… »