Seda Taskin News Today

Die Türkei hat derzeit mit schweren ausländerfeindlichen Krawalle zu kämpfen: In der Hauptstadt Ankara plünderte ein Mob die Geschäfte von Syrern und zündete Autos an.

TURKEY’S revolutionary forces said today that protests centred on Bogazici University must remain a fight against fascism and oppression — not for “liberal ideas of academic freedom.” An editorial in the Ozgur Gelecek newspaper said that elements such as the Kemalist Republican People’s Party (CHP) wanted “to keep the resistance within ‘acceptable’ limits” amid fears of a new Gezi, the 2013 protests that nearly brought down the government. Turkey’s second-largest political ...

KURDISH journalist Seda Taskin, a contributor to the Morning Star, was awarded last year’s prestigious Musa Anter award for her photographs of Hasankeyf, an ancient city that has been submerged in what has been described as an act of “cultural genocide.” She was jailed for more than a year for her work with the Mesopotamia Agency, a pro-Kurdish media organisation frequently targeted by the Turkish state.  Taskin gave just one sentence in her defence when her case was heard on appeal in M...

PROSECUTORS in Turkey could seek a sentence of more than 15,000 years for former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin Demirtas after new charges against him were accepted last week. The Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court accepted a file submitted on December 28 against 108 largely Kurdish politicians in relation to the so-called Kobane case and charged Mr Demirtas with 37 killings. The deaths came at the hands of Turkish security services during protests in October 2014, when�...