Tag: Turkey
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Turkey’s Privatization of Sugar Factories
On February 21, a notice was released in Turkey’s Official Gazette stating that bids will be collected for Turkey’s state-owned fourteen sugar plants. According to Directorate of Privatization Administration’s (OIB) announcement, sugar plants will be privatized. The AKP government, which has looted and made benefits of public-enterprises available to both national and international capital, seeks new privatization opportunities. Keep reading »
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Ecological Crisis and Capitalist Accumulation in Contemporary Turkey
Zafer Ülger spoke with Arielle Concilio of Left Voice to discuss environmental issues in Turkey, their relation to capitalist accumulation, and the increasing violence against environmental activists in the country. Keep reading »
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State and Labour During the AKP Rule in Turkey
A Balance Sheet of 15 Years The AKP (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi-Justice and Development Party) is celebrating 15 years in power in Turkey. The party came to power in November 2002, … Keep reading »
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Building Solidarity through Standing Up for Truth
Academics for Peace in Turkey The fate of the neoliberal Islamist project of authoritarian restoration in Turkey will be determined by an upcoming referendum on April 16 of this year. The … Keep reading »
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Sheikh Bedreddin: A Greco-Turkish Communist Internationalist Avant la Lettre
To draw the net from the water together while singing a song in unison, to forge together the iron fine like lace, to be able together to cultivate the land, … Keep reading »
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Turkey: After Failed Coup, Erdogan Cracks Down
Faced with an attempt to overthrow his government, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described the coup as “a gift from God” – and wasted no time in exploiting it to further … Keep reading »
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Turkey: Atlanticism versus Rabiism
The dramatic events that unfolded in Turkey on the night of 15 to 16 July have been excessively confined to the internecine struggle of two different Islamic currents, that of … Keep reading »
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The “New Turkey’s” Test With Freedom of Thought and Expression: Resurgent Fascism?
The petition by the “Academicians for Peace” in Turkey has resulted in an assault against the academic community of the country, which resembles the practices of the military junta of … Keep reading »
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The Syrianization of Turkey
The immense catastrophe that struck Turkey in the streets of Ankara, the capital city, on 10 October, when two bombs exploded in the midst of a thronging crowd of what … Keep reading »
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Turkey and its Kurds at War
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Personal Quest for Survival The Kurdish town of Cizre, a settlement with a population of approximately 150 thousand souls in Southeastern Turkey, is now under siege by the … Keep reading »
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Meet the Women of the HDP: Gender, Resistance and Radical Democracy
“We are women; We are youth; We are the rainbow; We are children; We are defenders of democracy; We are representatives of all identities; We are defenders of a free … Keep reading »
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Kurds, Labour, and the Left in Turkey
Interview with Erdem Yörük After Turkey’s parliamentary elections last week, all eyes are on the Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) after its successes in contesting its first ever election as a party, … Keep reading »