Student Protests in Turkey: A Communist Critique
Turkey's Imperialist Aggression Threatens to Set More than the Mediterranean Alight
A Class War Against State War – IWW Istanbul’s Statement on the Turkish Invasion of Syria
Istanbul Industrial Workers of the World's statement against the invasion of Syria. The following statement was originally published on Yeryüzü Postası.
Turkish State begun to deport Syrian refugees en masse back to the war zones in Syria and border cities
Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria wave after wave of refugees arrived Turkey. Currently there are about 4 million Syrian refugees living in several cities scattered throughout the country. In the last local elections the AKP government lost major cities like Istanbul and Ankara (where hundreds of thousands of immigrants are living in precarious conditions) to the opposition parties, who mostly ran on an anti-Syrian nationalist campaign. Now, the AKP government is trying to win its constituencies back by resorting to mass deportations of immigrants.
Who is Arming Turkey - A map of arms industry companies in the UK that profit from Turkey's war on the Kurds
Airport construction workers protest deadly working conditions in Istanbul
35,000 workers are building the third airport in Istanbul to be ready by October 2018, set to be the biggest airport in the world. The labour ministry claim that around 27 have died on site, but others report that over 400 workers have been killed by accidents since construction began, including children.
https://en.labournet.tv/airport-construction-workers-protest-deadly-working-conditions-istanbul
Video: Beauty Is Resisting
Since April 2018 at least 132 workers at the Flormar cosmetics factory in Gebze, Turkey have been dismissed for unionising. Flormar, which is owned 51% by France based Yves Rocher, pays its workers the minimum wage under poor safety conditions and has ignored the officially recognised union Petrol-İş.
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