Democratization

The Turkish daily Hürriyet published a report on February 25 that is supposed to reflect the views of the military high command on some recent developments in the armed forces. The report with the headline “Military headquarters disturbed” has caused strong reactions from the President, the government, as well as the opposition. 

A Kurdish village in Turkey has been under siege for more than 10 days now. 

Recently released employment statistics indicate that the economic crisis in Turkey has an especially grave effect on the employment conditions for women in Turkey.

They signed a petition one day and their whole lives were changed… 

The Women's Museum brings together women's museums from different countries of the world. 

The independent internet freedom watchdog “Turkey Blocks”  reported last Sunday that the Turkish government has started to target the TOR-network, an internet security utensil.

It was May 2016 when former CHP MP and former judge of the European Court of Human Rights, Rıza Türmen wrote an article arguing for the need of a united front working to bring peace to the country and strengthen its democracy. 

Nuriye Gülmen, a leftist academician from the Comparative Literature Department of Eskişehir Ozmangazi University is protesting against her dismissal during the purges that followed the coup attempt in July. 

The Interior Ministry of Turkey has taken a new step by suspending the activities of 370 NGOs for three months for their alleged connections with the Gülenists (153), PKK (190), DHKP-C (19), and ISIS (8). The decree was based on the Law of the State of Emergency and was justified by the need “to protect the general security and the public order.”

The students, the parents, the graduate associations of these long-established schools criticize this policy of project schools to the making of which they didn’t participate in any way, and fear that the government sees these schools as the new fronts in expanding its Islamist hegemony.