Category: social revolution

Syrian Refugees in Turkey:
Cases of Slavery, Rape ‘Go Unnoticed by Officials’

(Sputnik) ~ Chairman of the Bar Association of Gaziantep, Bektaş Şarklı, spoke with Sputnik in an interview regarding the atrocious conditions under which refugees in the Syrian refugee camp of Gaziantep are living.

According to statisticsGaziantep has the second largest number of Syrian refugees residing in camps.

There are cases of mass rapes of Syrian women, slave trade and ongoing cooperation of local authorities with jihadists which makes all of these factors a permanent source of instability and threat for the local population and the country as a whole.

“On April 12, 2015, we sent a request to the prosecutor of Gaziantep, asking him to investigate the case of Yazidi women into slavery. Unfortunately, it should be noted that the prosecutor’s office failed to conduct a proper investigation of the case.”

“The case file contains thousands of…

Fuck Nations, Squat The World

The undertaking of a squat, was, is, and should continue to be a powerful tool in the hands of the comrades surrounding it. This tool is evolving through the time-space continuum, and thus we feel it is necessary to present a couple of historical “points”. Squatting, as a stable infrastructure makes its first appearance in Greece, but also in many other countries in and beyond Europe, during the 70s.

Both in Europe in general, and in Greece in particular, a number of squats that took place over the years, were more than a place used for housing or to accommodate alternative means of entertainment. They were instead a living, breathing political cell which would occasionally take aggressive characteristics.

In Barcelona we meet the squat “Can Masdeu” where occupants, in one year faced hard oppression. Merely eleven squatters stood against 100 cops ordered to evacuate the premises, refusing to hand over the…

Erdem Gulwere and Can Dundar

This week journalists Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of “Cumhuriyet”, and Erdem Gilwere, Ankara bureau chief, were jailed for more than five years for merely reporting in May 2015 on evidence that the Erdogan government had, via the National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), been secretly ferrying arms from Turkey across the Syrian border. On the day Dundar arrived at court an attempt was made on the life (see video below). The journalists – who are appealing their convictions – were initially accused by Erdogan of being ‘terrorists’ under Turkey’s catch-all definition. The EU requires Erdogan to tighten that definition if the final go-head for Turks to get visa-free roaming across Europe is granted. But this week – the same week when Erdogan gave his prime minister the boot – the ever unpredictable Erdogan pointedly refused to comply to this condition and threatened to scupper the EU-Turkey deal on…