- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- The Arab World, Turkey, and The Balkans 1878-1914
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
- The Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides: An inconvenient truth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
It is the genocide deniers -- the rulers and lobbies of the U.S., Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan -- who are the ones impeding progress. Their denial, duplicity and audacity do not mean that the genocides# victims and their heirs have been defeated. Denying the truth does not invalidate it. Fictional Turkish #reconciliation# initiatives foisted upon Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks will never take the place of genuine atonement and restitution, which are necessary for true progress to be made.
- As Oda TV trial drags on, one journalist freed, four others begin 16th month in detention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Reporters Without Borders is outraged that only one of the five Oda TV journalists still in detention in Turkey has been released.
- As Turkey Bombed Anti-ISIS Fighters, It Hired Lobbying Firm Tied to 2016 Candidates
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
On July 24, 2015, Turkey launched a massive military campaign that included sweeping attacks against Kurdish forces as well as minor strikes on Islamic State positions south of Turkey’s border. Just five days later, the Turkish government inked a contract to hire a team of prominent lobbyists to add to its already formidable army of influence-peddlers in Washington.
- "A book is not a bomb" says fact-finding mission
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders urged the Turkish government today to prove it supports the media freedom it proclaimed during the recent election campaign.
- The Christian Genocide During the Ottoman Empire Sounds a Dark Warning for the Future
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Review and discussion of The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 by Benny Morris and Dror Zeevi.
- Connexions Library: Middle East Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
- Currently in Turkey: online censorship, attacks against media and detention of journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and its European organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (IFJ), jointly call on the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to immediately lift all bans against news organisations
- The Death of a Reporter
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Serena Shim, who leaves behind a family that includes her two young children, found herself chasing the truth in a highly charged situation.
- Editor of newspaper's website faces 15 years in prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Journalist Aylin Duruoglu has spent nearly six months in Istanbulâ##s BakirkA#y prison on totally unfounded charges of belonging to a terrorist organisation, Reporters Without Borders said.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Erdogan is Strengthened by the Failed Coup, But Turkey is the Loser
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Looks into the impact of the recent (2016) coup attempt in Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's counter-coup.
- Europe no longer so exemplary, Russian tragedy deepens
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
For the first time since 2002, the press freedom indexâ##s top 20 is not quite so European. Only 15 of the 20 leading countries are from the Old Continent, compared with 18 in 2008.
- European Court rules against Turkey in case brought by two journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders hails European Court of Human Rights ruling that Turkey violated the rights of two journalists, Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener, by keeping them in pre-trial detention for more than a year
- Facts Back Russia on Turkish Attack
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Turkey claims its November 24, 2015 shoot-down of a Russian warplane along the Syrian border was justified -- and the Obama administration is publicly siding with its NATO ally -- but a review of the evidence supports Russian accusations of an "ambush." The evidence from the Turkish authorities themselves thus leaves little room for doubt that the decision to shoot down the Russian jet was made before the Russian jets even began their flight.
- Freedom of information essential for peace in Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
At a time of alarming developments centred on the Kurdish issue, Reporters Without Borders is publishing a report exploring the relationship between this issue and media freedom in Turkey.
- From Sykes-Picot to "Islamic State": Imperialism's Bloody Wreckage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
When the Jihadist group Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) changed its name and declared the establishment of the Caliphate, it did so with the release of a promotional video entitled "The End of Sykes-Picot." This was a reference to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that marked the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of two zones of influence, British and French.
- From the Ruins of Empire
The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Pankaj Mishra's fascinating, highly entertaining new book tells the story of a remarkable group of men from across the continent who met the challenge of the West.
- Global Unions Call for Immediate End to Repression in Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Global Unions, collectively representing over 200 million union members, including in Turkey, stand in solidarity with the people of Turkey. Our organisations wish to reiterate their serious concern at the repeated use of brutal & excessive measures
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- Hypocrisy Reigns
Don't Forsake the Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania are called "heroes"?
- IFJ and EFJ launch a conference to tackle press freedom and labour rights in Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) and the Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC) jointly host the two-day international conference in Istanbul
- IFJ and EFJ urge Turkey to release two UK journalists facing terror charges
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have today backed their affiliate in Great Britain and Ireland, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), in urging the Turkish authorities to immedia
- IFJ Condemns Murder of Turkish Editor
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists and its European regional group, the European Federation of Journalists, today condemned the killing of Cihan Hayirsevener, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper engaged in exposing corruption in Turkey.
- IFJ demands immediate release of jailed Turkish journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) have strongly condemned the arrest of Turkish journalists.
- IFJ and EFJ condemn continuing attacks against journalists in Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemn several attacks against journalists that took place in Diyarbakir, Turkey, in the past few days.
- IFJ/EFJ Condemn mass Arrest of Turkish Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists and its regional group, the European Federation of Journalists, today condemned the shock raid on Zaman newspaper and Samanyolu TV media resulting in the arrest of at least 31 persons including journalists.
- International arms companies make a killing in Turkey: a case study of the Roboski Massacre
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Today, Turkey continues its brutality in its war against its Kurdish population. The state is imposing new curfews daily in the south-east of the country. Hundreds of citizens have been killed so far, whilst the western mainstream media and politicians remain largely silent about the massacres. Anti-militarist activists in the UK, however, are taking action against atrocities carried out by states such as Turkey.
- ISIS-Turkey Links
Research Paper
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Is Turkey collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)? Allegations range from military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support, financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. Columbia University's Program on Peace-building and Rights assigned a team of researchers in the United States, Europe, and Turkey to examine Turkish and international media, assessing the credibility of allegations.
- Istanbul's LGBT pride march violently disbanded by police
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
As Americans celebrate a momentous step forward for the LGBT movement, Turkish gay pride marchers were met with rubber bullets and water cannons from the police. While uncharacteristic of the police force, these violent acts are, unfortunately, in line with the general atmosphere in Turkey. There is an ever-growing epidemic of violent homophobia and transphobia in the country.
- Istanbul's Shameful May Day
Silencing the Masses
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
"I was walking through the streets of Istanbul. Smoke and tear-gas bombs were exploding everywhere and people were running, pursued by police in riot gear". I lay for a while analysing my dream. It was May the first – International Workers’ Day.
- Journalists are not Terrorists - Urgent Appeal of Life Sentences Given to Turkish Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Journalists are not terrorists - this is the powerful message the European Federation of Journalists is sending to the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Stand Up for Journalism Day following the life sentences given to five Turkish
- The Junius Pamphlet
The Crisis of Social Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1916
The voting of war credits in August 1914 was a shattering moment in the life of individual socialists and of the socialist movement in Europe. Those who had worked for, and wholly believed in the ability of, organized labour to stand against war now saw the major social democratic parties of Germany, France, and England rush to the defense of their fatherlands. Worker solidarity had proved an impotent myth. Rosa Luxemburg had for years warned against the stultifying effects of the overly bureaucratized German Social Democratic Party and the anti-revolutionary tendencies of the trade unions that played such a large role in the party's policy decisions. She spent much of the war in jail, where she wrote and then smuggled this pamphlet. Published under the name "Junius," the pamphlet became the guiding statement for the International Group, which became the Spartacus League.
- Kurdish paper distributor gunned down in southeastern Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Kadri Bagdu's death follows a week of violent rioting sparked by fighting in a Kurdish city near the Syrian border
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 12
Marx and Engels 1853 - 1854
Resource Type: Book
Articles mainly on British colonialism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 66: The Ottoman Empire and the 1908 'Young Turk' Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the revolution that began in Turkey in 1908 initiated a process that would transform the middle east over the following two decades.
- Meander
East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Jeremy Seal travels down the Meander river and through the history of Turkey in this travelogue.
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
- One Europe - 100 Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- 'Only I and my paper were prosecuted'
Journalist who exposed Turkey's hospitality for jihadists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Jihad fighters are treated in Turkey with state complicity; Journalist Dogu Eroglu of the opposition daily BirGun (One Day) was prosecuted.
- Orbán: Strong Man, Authoritarian Ideology
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Review of a book about Viktor Orbán's political career.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 13, 2016
Sports and Politics
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era. In the modern sports era, survival and success depend largely on the favour of corporations, whose power to provide or withhold funding and sponsorships now shape every aspect of sport, including athletes' incomes and lifestyles. It is now difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, corporate logos were strictly forbidden at Olympic events, while athletes were prohibited from accepting any kind of payment for their involvement in sports. The corporate conquest of sports closely parallels the corporate colonization of nearly all aspects of modern life. Accompanying this in recent years has been the increasing injection of militaristic content into sports spectacles. In Canada, hockey games are now commonly preceded by rituals honouring militarism. In the United States, similar spectacles have been staged for years. In this issue, we feature resources which remind us that resistance to the commercialization, corporatization, and militarization of sports is also part of our heritage.
- The phantom election
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The author criticises the elections took place on 1 November 2015 in Turkey.The ruling party AKP took away two millon votes from the fascist party MHP, one million from HDP the predominantly Kurdish party. half a million from SP a fundamentalist Islamist party, the predecessor of the AK, another million from new strata that came to vote at a higher rate this time. The author questions and attempts to explain the discrepancy between the opinion polls and the electoral results.
- RSF backs newspaper under attack from President Erdogan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns Turkish government pressure on the newspaper Cumhuriyet, which is under judicial investigation for publishing alleged evidence that Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) delivered arms to Islamists.
- RWB calls on Turkish judiciary to drop charges against German photojournalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Turkish judiciary to immediately drop all charges against the three German journalists arrested in Diyarbakir on Saturday and allow them to continue their work without restrictions.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Social Democracy and the National Struggles in Turkey
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1896
In foreign policy as in domestic politics, Social Democracy can adopt its own position, which in both spheres must be determined by the same standpoints, namely by the internal social conditions of the phenomenon in question, and by our general principles.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- The strategic defeat of Recep Tayyib Erdogan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The author examines the causes of historic electoral defeat of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party AKP. The author emphasises the two recent events: The Gezi rebellion in Istanbul and the Kobane defence in Western Kurdistan. The author asks and attempts to answer "the reason why was that this defeat had taken so long to be registered in action even permitting Erdogan to climb to the presidency of the republic in August 2014."
- The Syrianisation of Turkey
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
On 10 October 2015 hundreds of thousands people marching in the streets of Ankara in solidarity with Kurdish people and to stop the civil war were struck with two bombs, which exploded and killed a hundred people and hundreds wounded. In this article the author questions Erdogan's policies over Syria such as finding an excuse to send the Turkish military into Syria, setting up home-grown Islamist militia forces to keep Erdogan in power, to help warring Sunni militia groups in Syria always bear a risk of Syrianisation of Turkey.
- 'They know how it’s done': Turkey violated Greek airspace 2,244 times in 2014 alone
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Turkish claims that the downed Russian Su-24 jet "violated" its airspace have sparked outrage among Greeks, who took to social media to say it is a clear-cut case of double standards as Turkish jets breached Greek airspace 2,244 times in 2014 alone.
- A Turkey Divided by Erdogan Will Become Prey to Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
What critics claim is the openly fraudulent Turkish referendum ends parliamentary democracy in the country and gives President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dictatorial powers. The most unexpected aspect of the poll on Sunday was not the declared outcome, but that the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) allegedly found it necessary to fix the vote quite so blatantly.
- Turkey, enemy of the Internet?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The 9th annual Internet Governance Forum will be held in Istanbul from 2 to 5 September. Reporters Without Borders will be there to denounce the increasing violations of freedom of information in Turkey and to argue that respect for this freedom
- Turkey: EU must hold Turkish President accountable for press freedom violations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
As arrests of journalists and media closure continue the International and the European Federation of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) call on the European Union to take additional steps to hold Turkish president Erdogan accountable for press freedom breaches
- Turkey in 2019: An Assessment
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
A look at the current state of the Erdogan regime in Turkey as well as the hopes and challenges of what the left can accomplish.
- Turkey and its Kurds at war: Recep Tayyip Erdogan's personal quest for survival
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Examining the ongoing civil war between the Turkish government and Kurds, focusing especially on the recent plight of Cizre, a south eastern town with a massive Kurdish population. The author criticises the Turkish government which waged war against its own citizens in the Kurdish regions of the country.
- Turkey: Kurdish daily attacked and 32 journalists interrogated
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The offices of the Kurdish daily newspaper Azadiya Welat and Kurdish news agency DIHA in Diyabakir (Turkey) have been attacked on 28/09/2015 by police forces and 32 journalists and media workers were taken into custody for interrogation
- Turkey: Press Freedom in the grip of major crackdown following failed coup
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
An ongoing crackdown on the media in Turkey has led to the arrests of more journalists and raids on their homes. The International and the European Federation of journalists (IFJ/EFJ) today denounced the deterioration of democratic rule
- Turkey: A War of Two Coups
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
On 15 July 2016 a huge section of the Turkish armed forces attempted to take power from the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP, came very close to its objective, but was ultimately defeated. This article examines the causes of the failed coup and its social and political effects on the Turkish society from a Marxist perpective.
- Turkey: Cumhuriyet journalists face trial on 24 July
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The International and European Federation of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) join their affiliates TGS and DISK Basin-Is in condemning the trial of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet
- Turkey: Dangerous surge in censorship liable to exacerbate crisis
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In the latest alarming development for freedom of information in Turkey, prosecutors in the Istanbul district of Bakırköy today began investigating one of the country’s biggest media groups, DoÄŸan, for alleged terrorist propaganda.
- Turkey's journalists call for solidarity in struggle for their right to report
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
During a conference hosted by the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) and the Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC) leading journalists from across the political spectrum united in condemning the surge in attacks on press freedom led by the governmen
- Turkey's parliament approves even more Internet censorship and surveillance
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Turkey: Government agency given more power to block websites and gather user data.
- Turkey's Tiananmen in Context
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
At 9:30 Saturday morning Turkish citizens opposed to their government’s war policies gathered at the Ankara Train Station for a demonstration organized by a broad alliance of organizations.
- Turkey's Urban Uprising
The Struggle for Democracy against Inequality, Oligarchy, Oppression, and Tyranny
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In Turkey, a wave of urban uprisings had spread across the country, involving hundreds of thousands of protesters, in dozens of cities, met with massive state repression and violence, resulting in a few deaths and thousands of injuries and arrests.
- An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
- The Uprising in Turkey
Conservative-Neoliberal Alliance and Popular Resistance in Turkey
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Thousands are taking to the streets to oppose the current regime of old Islamic, anti-secularist values sitting comfortably with large scale US based Neoliberal capitalism.
- When Deep States Collide
Turkey's Hesitancy Exposes Its Agenda
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
It's no secret that members of the so-called coalition against ISIS have been less than enthusiastic about substantive military action as the bulk of the airstrikes so far have been executed by the United States.
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
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