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21 June 2008
Strike
by Turkish tyre workers ends with real wage losses
9 June 2008
Turkey's
Constitutional Court re-imposes ban on Muslim headscarf at universities
5 June 2008
Turkish
tyre workers strike Bridgestone, Goodyear and Pirelli
29 May 2008
Turkey:
Conflict escalates between government and judiciary
16 May 2008
Turkish
youth hit hardest by unemployment
15 May 2008
Turkish
government pledges new attacks on workers
5 May 2008
Turkey:
May Day demonstration in Istanbul brutally suppressed
2 April 2008
Turkey's
chief prosecutor seeks to ban the ruling AKP
11 March 2008
Iraqi
president visits Ankara in wake of Turkish incursion
4 March 2008
Turkey
hails Iraq incursion as success
29 February 2008
Turkey
rejects timetable to end invasion of northern Iraq
Brutal police attack on striking shipyard workers
On-the-spot report from Istanbul
25 February 2008
Turkish
forces push deeper into Kurdish northern Iraq
23 February 2008
Turkish
jobless rate increases dramatically
8 February 2008
Turkey:
Amnesty International documents attacks on democratic rights
7 February 2008
Turkish
military again strikes Kurdish areas in northern Iraq
31 January 2008
Professor
sentenced for criticising Turkish founder
11 January 2008
Turkey:
Workers protest against betrayal by trade union confederation
28 December 2007
Turkey:
15-month strike ends with betrayal by union bureaucracy
19 December 2007
US
backs Turkish military attacks on northern Iraq
14 December 2007
Scores
of migrants drown as boat sinks off Turkish Aegean coast
7 December 2007
Turkey:
Assaults on freedom of expression continue
14 November 2007
Turkish
union bureaucracy adds its voice to nationalist campaign
10 November 2007
Bush gives green light for Turkey to attack PKK in
Iraq
Historical, political issues in the Turkish-Kurd conflict
24 October 2007
As
Turkey-Iraq crisis escalates, US plans military strikes on PKK
bases
17 October 2007
Conflict
between Turkey and the US intensifies
15 October 2007
Turkish
government gives green light for military intervention in northern
Iraq
12 October 2007
Bush
condemns House vote on Armenian genocide
6 October 2007
Turkey:
Referendum planned for direct election of president
21 September 2007
New
Turkish government prepares assault on working conditions
6 September 2007
Turkey:
Abdullah Gül sworn in as president
22 August 2007
Serious
water shortage in Turkey
13 August 2007
Turkey:
Textile firms demand wage freeze, layoffs
11 August 2007
Fifty-five
years after founding, Turkish union confederation a bureaucratic
shell
6 August 2007
Washington
discusses plans for covert action against Kurdish PKK in Iraq
25 July 2007
Washington,
EU welcome AKP victory in Turkish elections
21 July 2007
As the Turkish military provocatively shells northern
Iraq
Social tensions at the forefront in run-up to Turkish parliamentary
elections
14 July 2007
Amnesty
International report on Turkey: failure to punish perpetrators
of torture
11 July 2007
Turkish
army intervenes ever more openly in political life
7 June 2007
Turkish
military flexes its muscles in northern Iraq
4 June 2007
Turkey:
Political allies of military move to unseat moderate Islamist
government
3 May 2007
Turkey:
Constitutional Court stops presidential election
16 April 2007
Political
tensions increase as Turkish presidential elections approach
3 April 2007
A
damning report on attacks against free speech in Turkey
28 March 2007
IMF
and Turkish government agree to new attacks on workers
21 March 2007
Turkey:
Kurdish nationalists and left groups move towards electoral bloc
12 March 2007
Turkey:
depressed prices sparking farmers protests
27 January 2007
The
background to the murder of Turkish journalist Hrant Dink
27 October 2006
Freedom
of speech under continuing attack in Turkey
20 October 2006
Turkey:
A new military intervention in the making
7 September 2006
What
lies behind the terrorist attacks in Turkey?
29 August 2006
Mass
protests by Turkish farmers
25 August 2006
Turkey:
Police brutality intensifies along with the political crisis
8 August 2006
Turkey: Protests in Istanbul against Israeli aggression
Islamic organizations seek to dampen opposition to government
1 August 2006
Turkey:
privatised oil-refinery firm slashes 800 jobs
6 April 2006
Turkey:
Twelve dead and hundreds injured in Kurdish protests
21 March 2006
Turkey:
public prosecutor accuses general of involvement in terrorist
attacks
6 February 2006
Turkey:
Court drops prosecution of writer Orhan Pamuk
18 October 2005
EU
in crisis over Turkish membership
8 October 2005
Turkey: trampling on free speech continues Novelist
Orhan Pamuk faces jail terms
8 September 2005
Turkey:
corruption scandal erupts in Tek Gida-Is trade union bureaucracy
11 June 2005
Turkey:
poverty increases with economic expansion
30 May 2005
Turkey:
IMF plan demands new attacks on working people
18 May 2005
Turkey:
military's nationalist campaign conceals rapprochement with US
10 March 2005
Turkey:
union bureaucracy works to sabotage paper workers' occupation
25 February 2005
Turkey:
paper workers occupy factory
2 August 2004
Turkey's
train wreck: a tragedy rooted in the drive for profit
16 April 2004
Turkey:
Victory for the AKP in local elections masks social tensions
8 April 2004
The dead end of nationalism
Turkey: Successor organization of the PKK curries favour with
US
27 January 2004
Turkey:
Inflation decreases but wages still lag behind
13 January 2004
Change
of government following elections in North Cyprus
21 November 2003
Terror
blasts in Istanbul: atrocities aid Bush's "war on terror"
10 October 2003
Turkey
sends troops to Iraq
19 August 2003
Turkey:
Reform limits some military powers
26 July 2003
Turkish-US
tensions continue over Kurds in northern Iraq
18 July 2003
Turkey:
Power struggle between government and army
2 June 2003
In wake of US reprimand
Threat of military coup grows in Turkey
24 May 2003
Wolfowitz
in Ankara: US urges military to overrule Turkish government
16 May 2003
Earthquake
in Turkey sparks violent protests
1 May 2003
Turkey's
bloody 1977 May Day still clouded in mystery
24 April 2003
Turkey:
Growing poverty and social inequality
8 April 2003
Antiwar
protests continue throughout Turkey
2 April 2003
Turkey:
Protests against US army
29 March 2003
Anti-war
protests in Turkey
15 March 2003
Turkey:
AKP leader Erdogan wins by-election in Siirt
7 March 2003
The
Bush administration, Turkey and democracy
The Wall Street Journal spells it out: Turkey
could lose "oil spoils" of war
4 March 2003
Turkish
parliament votes down US war plans
14 February 2003
Ankara
lines up behind a war against Iraq
24 January 2003
War
plans against Iraq aggravate conflict over Cyprus
9 January 2003
Turkey
prepares to line up
behind US war vs. Iraq
8 November 2002
Devastating
defeat for established parties in Turkish elections
20 July 2002
What
lies behind the political crisis in Turkey?
12 April 2002
US
war plans intensify political crisis in Turkey
19 December 2001
German
government bans Turkish Islamic grou p
29 September 2001
Turkey:
"War against terrorism" emboldens fascists and the
military
15 August 2001
European
Court confirms ban on Turkish Islamic Party
12 May 2001
Turkey:
PKK offers its services to Finance Minister Dervis and the military
20 April 2001
As
Turkish economic crisis deepens, tens of thousands protest IMF
and government policies
7 March 2001
Political
and social dimensions of the Turkish financial crisis
23 February 2001
Corruption
row sparks financial storm in Turkey
23 December 2000
Letter
on the Turkish prison crackdown
22 December 2000
Turkish
state suppresses prison revolts
Turks mount protests in London
20 December 2000
European
Court of Justice allows complaint against death sentence by Kurdish
Workers Party leader Ocalan
6 December 2000
Turkish
banking crisis: another indication of global turbulence
27 September 2000
Twenty
years since the military coup in Turkey
Turkey today: cheap labor platform for transnational
corporations
30 August 2000
Turkish
army kills Kurdish civilians in north Iraq
26 August 2000
The
Kurdish Tragedy--PKK activists on trial for murdering a Kurdish
couple in Bremen
23 August 2000
Turkish
president in conflict with government and military
11 May 2000
Ahmet
Sezer chosen new president of Turkey
14 April 2000
Measure
permitting second term for Turkish president fails in parliament
9 March 2000
Kurdish
nationalists seek supporting role in Turkish state
16 February 2000
Government
crackdown against the Hezbollah in Turkey
9 February 2000
British
High Court ruling opens way for deportation of over 6,000 Kurdish
asylum-seekers
15 January 2000
Execution
of PKK leader Ocalan postponed
31 December 1999
Britain's
Labour government agrees to finance controversial Turkish Ilisu
dam project
3 December 1999
PKK
leader Ocalan's fate remains undecided after death sentence upheld
by Turkish appeals court
30 November 1999
Agreement
signed in Istanbul on US-backed Caspian oil pipeline
6 October 1999
What
is the path to genuine democracy in Turkey?
1 October 1999
Turkish
security forces massacre political prisoners
14 September 1999
State Department documents confirm
US hypocrisy on human rights
The case of Turkey
6 September 1999
After
the Turkish earthquake: government amnesties for torturers and
criminals
28 August 1999
Political
aftershocks in Turkey
27 August 1999
Scant
international aid for Turkish earthquake disaster
25 August 1999
The
earthquake in Turkey: Western bankers see a silver lining
How the Turkish earthquake disaster was prepared
24 August 1999
Turkish
government calls off rescue efforts as earthquake death toll
mounts
British mercenaries planned assassination of Kurdish
leader Abdullah Ocalan
The PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) publicly renounces
the armed struggle
21 August 1999
Earthquake finds US energy secretary in Turkey
What was Bill Richardson up to in Istanbul?
20 August 1999
Anger
mounts in Turkey following earthquake disaster
19 August 1999
Thousands die in Turkey earthquake
Unsafe construction blamed for high death toll
17 August 1999
Turkish
trade union leader murdered
6 August 1999
German
foreign policy and the abduction of PKK leader Cevat Soysal
19 July 1999
The
judgement in the show trial of Öcalan and the policies of
the PKK
9 July 1999
What
does US sanction for the execution of Abdullah Ocalan say about
its "humanitarian" aims in the Balkans?
2 July 1999
Background
to the Ocalan verdict: European interests and the Kurdish question
30 June 1999
The Ocalan verdict: US realpolitik in league
with the Turkish hangman
8 June 1999
The Show Trial of Abdullah Ocalan in Turkey
What lies behind the behaviour of the PKK leader?
3 June 1999
Turkey:
Fascists and Social Democrats form new government
2 June 1999
Turkey
begins its show trial of Abdullah Ocalan
1 June 1999
Video
shows that Israeli security forces were responsible for the murder
of Kurdish demonstrators
26 May 1999
Why
is Turkey supporting the war against Serbia?
22 May 1999
Turkey
sentences Kurdish leader to death
23 April 1999
Sharp
rightward shift in the Turkish elections
17 April 1999
Turkish
elections take place amid anti-Kurdish repression
11 April 1999
Repression
in Turkey exposes NATO "humanitarianism"
24 March 1999
In
a fresh attack on Kurdish democratic rights, UK watchdog shuts
down Med TV station
12 March 1999
The
politics of the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party): a balance sheet
27 February 1999
Ten thousand march in Berlin
Funeral procession honours young Kurds slain at Israeli embassy
25 February 1999
The
role of the German government in the arrest of Abdullah Ocalan
24 February 1999
The
manhunt for Ocalan: How Washington flouts international law and
democratic rights
Human Rights Watch report on Turkey: a profile of
a police state
20 February 1999
US
policy toward the Kurds--a mass of contradictions
19 February 1999
Israeli guards kill three Kurds in Berlin
International repression follows Ocalan's capture
Kurdish protesters express outrage in Australia
18 February 1999
The
seizure of Abdullah Ocalan: whatever happened to the right of
asylum?
1 December 1998
The
tug-of-war over Kurdish nationalist leader Abdullah Ocalan
17 November 1998
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