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16 June 2008, Tuzla
©Collective
Tuzla Shipyard workers went on strike on monday to protest working conditions on Turkish sites where 26 people have died in industrial accidents in the past year.The one-day stoppage at the site in the Tuzla suburb was called by the shipyard workers union Limter-Is to protest long working hours, sackings and the system of subcontracting that has led to numerous companies operat... |
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May Day 2008
©Nar Group
Turkish government denied permission to union confederations to gather at Taksim Square which is the main downtown square of the city. Thousands of police were stationed across the city centre to block access to the main Taksim Square, where three major trade union confederations have pledged to mobilise up to 500,000 people in defiance of an official ban. Turkish riot police u... |
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Frozen City,Kars
©Tolga Sezgin
At an altitude of 1,750 meters, lying at the foot of Kars Kale, the impressive citadel, Kars has known a turmoiled history. The city was founded at the eastern side of the Kars river by the Urartians as Asteghani. For a short period (928-961) it became the capital of the Armenian Bagratid kingdom. During this time the Cathedral of the Holy Apostles was built. In 1064 Kars was... |
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African Immigrants in Turkey
©Saner Şen
Nobody has an idea about how many they are. Some leave the motherland because their life is insecure, some because they can not see their future clear in there. The only dream is running away to one of the European countries and build up new life in a whole new world which they do not know. One of the most assertive blockage on their way is Turkey. It is not allowed to settle d... |
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NEWBORN
©Samir Karahoda
On the 17th of February 2008 Kosovo declared independence, completing a long and difficult journey towards statehood. Since the end of the war in 1999 Kosovo had been in diplomatic game,.Most of the population, took to the streets to celebrate the declaration, but the Serb and Roma minorities fear for their future in the new independent Kosovo.After the declaration of independe... |
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KOSOVO
©Kerem Uzel
Kosovo has a population of around two million people, predominantly ethnic Albanians, with smaller populations of Serbs, Turks, Bosniaks and other ethnic groups. After the war ended, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1244 that placed Kosovo under transitional UN administration (UNMIK) and authorized KFOR, a NATO-led peacekeeping force.
Since the end of the war in 19... |
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ARMENIANS OF ISTANBUL
©Mehmet Kaçmaz
There are more than 70.000 Armenian in Turkey and most of them are living in Istanbul. That means they are the major non-Muslim minority of Turkey. The transition from Ottoman Empire that has different ethnicities to Modern Turkish Republic was the beginning of a painful period for Armenians as for other minorities in Anatolia. Especially the forced emigration in 1915 that is c... |
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Turkey PKK Protest
©Nar Group
Turkish people protest against the separatist Kurdish rebel group, the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party, in Istanbul. Turkey's foreign minister turned down any cease-fire by Kurdish rebels Tuesday after he met with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad to press them to crack down on the rebels who ambushed and killed 12 Turkish soldiers two days before.... |
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