Ibrahim Avcil News Today

The Refugee and Workers Cultural Association says workers are stuck in a "vicious circle".

CCTV footage showed construction worker Gokhan Gunes being abducted by security services shortly after a hospital appointment. But he has not been seen since with lawyers saying that local police and anti-terror units have all denied holding the political activist, leading to fears that he has come to harm and may even have been killed. Solicitor Sezgin Ucar explained that police were aware of the political activities of Mr Gunes, who had been subjected to threats and harassment by Turkish stat...

TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has said that as many as 20,000 of its supporters have been detained since 2016 — and there are fears the party will be closed down after the passage of a much criticised new law. The shocking statistics, announced on Saturday, have met an international wall of silence as the Turkish state continues to wage the biggest clampdown on a legal social democratic party since the second world war. HDP co-deputy head for local government Sal...