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Inmates Show No Sign of Ending Hunger Strike
The death of a political prisoner in Turkey last week may spark a chain of similar action by other inmates on hunger strike in the countrys prisons, a medical doctor has warned.
17 January 2002 Ertuğrul Kürkçü
Hunger Strike Beyond Prison Walls
The strikers seek abolition of state security courts, which are used for political trials and other sensitive cases. They demand more rights for the Kurdish people in Turkey and a break with an economic reform agreement reached with the IMF.
17 January 2002 Catherine Collıns
Economic Plan Criticized
Only the government here appears to be pleased with its new economic recovery programme. Announced on the weekend, the programme, which is backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has spawned a wave of criticisms and labour rallies.
17 January 2002 Nadire Mater
JPC Meetings : Dialogue of The Deaf
The recent Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting ends without any joint proposal. Unless submechanisms are not introduced the JPC will remain a dialogue of the deaf, believes political analyst Dr. Cengiz Aktar.
17 January 2002 Burçin Belge
Turkey A Migrant Way Station
Almost weekly, Turkish officials report snaring smugglers or rescuing abandoned immigrants. Earlier this summer, Turkish police found 65 Iraqis hidden in secret compartments of a truck loaded with sand and pebbles.
17 January 2002 Stephen Franklın
The Forgotten
Turkish writer Asiye Zeybek was raped by policemen - yet it is she who faces prison. And her case is the tip of the iceberg, says Joan Smith of The Guardian in her column on Sep.17 issue of the British daily.
17 January 2002 Joan Smıth
Book on Southeast Conflict Banned
Korku Tapinagi (Temple of Fear), collection of stories from the Southeast war zone by journalist Celal Baslangic is banned under charges of insulting the military. Baslangic is faced with 1-6 years in prison if found guilty by the court.
17 January 2002
The Situation in North Cyprus
On the 27th year of Turkeys military intervention, Northern Cypruss Patriotic Unity Movement (YBH) anlyses the current situation in the divided island. Unemployment increases and the standard of living falls, say report by the groups youth arm.
17 January 2002
4 Killed And 10 Injured in Police Raid
In a Istanbul police operation directed at two houses where the death fasters opposing the F-type prison system were staying four were killed. The police claimed that the four people who died lost their lives by setting themselves on fire.
17 January 2002
Turkey Prepares to Send Troops to Afghanistan
Turkish government plans to deploy at least 300 soldiers from the special warfare unit, which has been fighting Kurdish insurgents for 15 years, in Afghanistan to operate under the allied command as soon as the land operations begin.
17 January 2002 Nadire Mater,Ertuğrul Kürkçü
Ecevit to Oppose Military Action in Iraq
Bush will be hosting the leader of a NATO country who in the past has not hidden his sympathies for Saddam Hussein. Ecevit visited the Iraqi leader twice in Baghdad as journalist in 1990-1991.
17 January 2002 Nadire Mater
IMF Loan Offers a Breathing Space
The letter of intent, released Tuesday, pledges that major public banks, the strongholds of Turkeys crony capitalism, will be merged and privatised in three years. State subsidies to beetle and tobacco farming will be stopped.
17 January 2002 Ertuğrul Kürkçü
Tulchovsky Award Goes to Zeybek
Swedish PEN decides to grant the 2001 Tulchovsky Award to imprisoned Turkish journalist Asiye Zeybek Guzel. A Swedish PEN delegation attends Guzels trial on Friday.
17 January 2002
Stroke Marks In the F Type Prisons
Ümit Efe, from the Human Rights Organization, reported that the convicts in solitary confinement cells in the Kandıra, Sincan, Edirne and Tekirdağ F type prisons, are being counted in the same manner as in the military barracks.
17 January 2002
Government Looks at West, Public at East
The schism between the governments attitude and the public sentiment is so apparent that, football matches in Istanbul have witnessed loud anti-USA protests when the audience is called for standing for condolence for the victims of the attack on USA.
17 January 2002 Nadire Mater,Ertuğrul Kürkçü
Landmines: Fresh Threat For Kurdish Locals
Human Rights Association (IHD) warns that landmines laid down in Southeast during the conflict between the army and the guerilla PKK continue explode. Previously depopulated locals are yet fearful to return home of the risks posed by landmines.
17 January 2002 Erhan Gülenç
U.S.-Turkey Relations and the War on Terroris
The United States and Turkey share a core common concern with the guiding principles of the Taliban and al Qaeda. Though Turkey is 99.8 percent Muslim, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, surely include the Turkish Republic among the camp of disbelief.
17 January 2002 Steven A. Cook
Temple of Fear, Frightens...
Journalist Celal Baslangic faces 1-6 years for his collection of articles Temple of Fear, previously published by Istanbul daily Radikal. Documenting ordinary human tragedies in Southeast none of the articles were banned when published in the daily.
17 January 2002
An End to Torture And Impunity Is Overdue
The systematic and widespread nature of torture in Turkey puts nearly anyone at risk of being tortured, Amnesty International says as it releases its report on Turkey
17 January 2002
Government Ignores Prisoners Demands
-Type prisons are specially designed maximum-security facilities, which Human Rights Watch, the global human rights group, calls physically and psychologically damaging to prisoners. The prisons are designed to keep prisoners in isolation.
17 January 2002 Nadire Mater,Ertuğrul Kürkçü
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Ex-Bank Official Hired To Sort Out The Mess
Turkeys new economic chief, Kemal Dervis has been hailed as the man who will sort out the countrys financial mess. This week, Dervis, sold government bonds worth 3.3 billion US dollars to local investors, as part of his austerity measures.
17 January 2002 Nadire Mater
Turkey Revising Male-Dominated Code
The draft new code scraps the phrase the head of the marriage union is the man, giving women the right to have a say in decisions concerning the children or the family home. She no longer needs a husbands consent to go out to work.
17 January 2002 Suzan Fraser
Turkeys Operation Return to Life
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17 January 2002 Murat Paker
Silenced Voice: Fikret Baskaya
Professor Fikret Baskaya is now a case in point himself; he has fallen victim to the very mindset he has criticized. He has been sent to jail to serve a 16-month term under Article 8 of Turkeys Anti-Terror legislation.
17 January 2002 Siobhan Dowd
Turkish Cyrpriots Optimistic for A Solution
Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders Denktas and Klerides met after 4 years at the green border. Talks about the future of Cyprus will be continued on January 15th 2002 without any preconditions. Turkish Cypriots comment on the event.
17 January 2002 Nadire Mater
Armenian Deportation
The official decision for DEPORTATION (Exile) was taken in May 27th of 1915. The Ottoman government had decided to force a number of its subjects, depriving them of their possessions and property, to exile to hundreds of kilometers away to Deyr-uz Zor.
17 January 2002 Tayfun Mater
4000 Media Workers Laid-Off In Turkey
Up to 4,000 media workers have been laid- off in Turkey as a result of a recent 30 per cent devaluation of the Turkish Lira, which has hit the media industry the hardest.
17 January 2002 Nadire Mater
Economic Crisis Luring Engineers Overseas
Ongoing economic crisis leads to unemployment among Turkeys specialized workforce, say Engineers Chambers officials. New raduates as well as experienced engineers are seeking jobs outside of their profession or overseas.
17 January 2002 Erhan Gülenç
Turkish Cypriot Businessmen Urge for Solution
Prior to Klerides and Denktas summit on Dec. 4 the Turkish Cypriot business community cal the two leaders to act responsibly. KKTC-İSAD also urges Denktas to raise prospect of a new partnership of two states properly.
17 January 2002
Pop Stars Sexuality Sparks Debate
In just two days Gul, like an elephant in glasshouse, tore down all what his Prime Minister Devlet Bahceli had done to clean up the image of their party, stained by blood and intolerance in the three decades of violence during 1970-2000.
17 January 2002 Nadire Mater
Crisis Taking a Toll on Turkeys Media
The Turkish Journalists Association said 3,000 of Turkeys 12,000 journalists have been laid off since mid-February, when the country was plunged into an economic crisis.
17 January 2002 Catherine Collıns
US Security Hinges on Self-Criticism
It is vital that we explore anti-American sentiment. It is especially urgent that we study Americas Middle East policy, with emphasis on U.S. dealings with Iraq and Israel.
17 January 2002 Jim Ron
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