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Dockyard Dispute Turns International

Foreign unions, parties and groups demand immediate release of dockyard union executives Dinc and Saygili who were arrested on pretext of resisting the police after being beaten up. Still no news on any investigation into earlier police attacks.

15 June 2006 Tolga Korkut

Unionists Chain Themselves for Rights

DISK stages protest in front of ILO Ankara office against workers losing jobs for union membership and arrest of LIMTER-IS union leaders. Celebi says: Government should enforce ILO decisions; barriers in front of union rights should be lifted immediately

Prosecutor Arrests Two Unionists

Istanbul prosecutor orders arrest of two unionists detained by police. LIMTER-IS chair Dinc and Training Expert Saygili placed in Kartal prison. Lawyer Akkilic says decision arbitrary, illegal. We will complain. Unions call for immediate release.

13 June 2006 Tolga Korkut

17 Miners Killed In Explosion & Collapse

Balikesir miner deaths sparks off appeals for union control at Turkish mines. UNionist Uygur says: Preventing unions is leading to deaths. MADEN-ISs Guzel: Accidents will significantly decline where there are unions at the work place.

5 June 2006 Tolga Korkut

Police Attacks Dockyard Union Workers

At least six people were seriously injured when police attacked dockyard workers attempting to hold press conference demanding delayed wages. 16 others including executives of LIMTER-IS union are under custody.

1 June 2006 Tolga Korkut

IHD Istanbul Admin Changes

Hurriyet Sener elected as chair of Human Rights Association Istanbul branch while Huseyin Ayyildiz named secretary.

DISK Withdraws From Social Dialogue

Turkeys DISK Confederation withdraws from ILO meetings and suspends Economic and Social Council as well as EU-Turkey advisory committee membership blaming government for not taking forward steps on union rights.

29 May 2006 Tolga Korkut

10 Dead In Diyarbakir, Yet No Investigation

IHD Diyarbakir Report: Between 28 March-3 April, 10 civilians including 5 children died. Security forces opened fire not on the crowds striking fatal areas. Yalcindag: A criminal complaint is not necessary; prosecutors should have investigatited.

10 April 2006 Tolga Korkut

60,000 Farmers Protest in Manisa

Farmers held a protest meeting in Manisa and said that because of government policies, they are earning less for their crops than they spend to produce them. A leader of the farmers in Manisa said, we are living in the worst period in our history.

26 September 2005

Movement of Goods Across The Green Line

European Union issues specific rules for the movement of goods across the Green Line dividing the Cyprus island between Turkish north and Greek south. The decision is expected to improve northern economy under international embargo since 1974.

Unions Forgot about Child Laborers on May 1

Turkeys 6.5 child laborers, who are used as cheap labor, were not mentioned in the labor unions May 1 declarations. It seems impossible for the children who work in the agriculture sector or as house workers to have their voices heard.

5 May 2004 Erhan Üstündağ

EU Formula for Unemployment

The implementation of the Active Labour Market Strategy Programme has now started. 40 Million Euro EU support is available for the development of Active Labour Market Strategy by ISKUR.

22 October 2003

12 Yaşındaki N.Ç, Reha Muhtarın Elinde Mi?

Mardinde aralarında üst düzey kamu görevlisinin de olduğu iki yüz erkeğe pazarlanan 12 yaşındaki N.Ç.ye destek olmak için Mardine giden kadınlar, ona ulaşamadılar. Küçük kızın Reha Muhtarın programına çıkacağı söyleniyor.

Rejecting IMF After the Motion

The same way it was no doomsday when the motion was rejected, the parliament should show the same courage for IMF program, said economist Mustafa Sonmez: Turkish economys recovery depends on regulations on the debt program and the interest spending.

4 March 2003 Özge Gözke

Diesel Smugglers Lose Business as War Looms

The Kurdish minority who live on the Iraqi side of the border have flourished as a result of the diesel trade. Supermarkets, internet cafes and new vehicles can be easily spotted in northern Iraq while they are almost unknown further south.

31 January 2003 Pratap Chatterjee

What Working Class May Expect From AKP

AKP promised the IMF, along with the capital-holders, to be loyal to Turkeys current economic program. It will be very difficult for the party to keep this promise and to also come up with solutions for unemployment and poverty.This is almost impossible.

8 November 2002 Tonguç Çoban

Business Urge For Tax Reduction, Incentives

Representatives of different sectors expect the government direct public resources to profitable sectors; establish cooperative banks in agriculture; reduce stoppages in the construction sector, and lower taxes in the automotive sector.

7 November 2002

Iran and Turkey Resign Gas Agreement

Turkish Energy Minister Zeki Cakan and his Iranian counterpart Bijan Namdar Zanganeh told reporters they were satisfied with the results of the agreement, but did not say whether they had reached any new deal on prices.

21 October 2002

Amnestys Report on Turkey

Amnesty Internationals recent report on Turkey reads: Freedom of expression,freedom of association, human rights defenders, torture and pre-trial detention, impunity, judiciary / fair trials, death penalty, prisons, minority rights.

19 September 2002

EU Warned of Torture in Turkey

Amnesty Internationals letter to Günter Verheugen Commissioner for Enlargement of European Commission: Forthcoming assessment of Turkeys progress towards fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria

19 September 2002

It Hurts to Pay to Learn your Mother Tongue

The people in Diyarbakir are disturbed by the fact that Kurdish will only be taught in private courses. They dont want to pay to learn their own language, and advocate that the state should let Kurdish be taught in public schools.

17 September 2002

Children Speak Out

The children of public workers listed their demands at the protest by the Mersin branch platform of KESK: We want free education, health care and proper nutrition. They demanded increased government aid and more maternity rights.

16 September 2002 Kıymet Gökçe

Commercial Support to Bosnia-Herzegovina

Izmir Commercial Stock-Exchange and the Bosnia Herzegovina Chamber of Foreign Trade have signed a cooperation agreement. With this agreement, the two institutions will exchange information, jointly decide on quotations and cooperate in marketing.

Strike at Incirlik Air Base

Incirlik American Air Bases Turkish workers are on strike with demands of a pay rise. This is the fifth labor strike at the base. Workers ask for pay rises once in three months, employers insist on granting pay rises only once in six months.

12 August 2002 Mehmet Boncuk

Daddys Job Is My Future

Workers children visited their fathers at the Pasabahce SiseCam Factory. The workers began the protest nine days ago, when the production was halted. The unions, and the Beykoz Mayor Cati, went into the factory to visit with the workers.

31 July 2002 Bircan Değirmenci

People are being Abandoned to Hunger

The minimum wage announced as 184 million 251 thousand Turkish Liras ($110). Protesting the new minumum wage, DISK chair Celebi said: Let alone the Constitution, this amount does not even accord with the least humanitarian values.

Black Sea Countries Optimistic for Future

The BSCE brings together former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova and Turkey, Russian Federation, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania who undersigned the cooperation in the inaugural Istanbul summit in 1992.

26 June 2002 Nadire Mater

Did Washingtons Floating Currency Magic Go

What is going on? Whats wrong if the Turkish Lira is appreciating excessively? Cant the floating currency regime that is capable of anything, rasp all extremities?

27 April 2002 Mustafa Sönmez

GAP region exports drop 39 Percent

GAP region exports dropped to 15.8 million dollars in the first quarter of 2002. Exports in the region totalled 26 million dollars in the first quarter of last year.

11 April 2002 Ahmet Atılmış

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