The Initiative for a Turkey without Mines has criticised Turkey for not fulfilling the obligations to clear landmines specified by the ...»

38 people who were attacked by the police at last year’s 1 May protests have been told that their demonstration was ...»

Singers, actors and intellectuals opposing the building of nuclear power plants in Turkey have sent a statement to parliament. On 26 ...»

Following a call by trade unions and professional chambers, workers all around Turkey protested against the draft Law on Social Security ...»

Trade unions and professional chambers have called for a protest in front of parliament in Ankara on 1 April. ...»

After reading a press statement for the Solidarity Initiative for Ismail Saygi, conscientious objector Savda was himself taken into custody. The ...»

After negotiations between the Labour Platform and Minister of Labour Faruk Celik, the government has agreed to make some changes. ...»

According to the UNDP “Youth in Turkey” report, girls are still being deprived of schooling because of gender discrimination. The lack ...»

For the last 18 years, the “Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation” has supported women. Bianet talked to the organisers. ...»

Various Turkish and international organisations have invited to a conference entitled “Water: Under the Yoke of Capitalism” which takes place this ...»

There have been memorial events of the Halabja Massacre in 1988, in which Saddam Hussein ordered the massacre of thousands of ...»

Doctors from a private hospital in Bursa traveled to the province of Tunceli for the Day of Medicine on 14 March. ...»

According to a report by the UNFPA and the Demographics Association, 21.1 percent of men and 27.7 percent of women in ...»

The “Purple Roof” Women’s Shelter Foundation has condemned the fact that Turkey is not making provisions for women’s shelters. ...»

According to Ali, the whole of Iraqi society, but especially the children, bear psychological scars from witnessing violence and death every ...»

In order to protest against the appalling safety and working conditions at the Tuzla shipyards, trade unions started a strike on ...»

In the last seven months, 18 workers have died on Tuzla shipyards. The Limter Is trade union has announced a strike ...»

After the unsolved fire in Ludwigshafen which claimed nine lives, there have been five more fires in Turkish homes. ...»

According to the trade union LIMTER-IS, two more shipyard workers have died, raising the death toll since the beginning of the ...»

The Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TIHV) has published its annual report, in which it says that 452 people applied to its ...»