Autocracy challenged

Autocracy challenged

Futura D’Aprile reports on the upcoming elections in Turkey.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
Unstoppable: Celebrating Pride in central Istanbul on 30 June 2019, despite the ban on the event.Photo: Murad Sezer/Reuters/Alamy

‘As long as the world keeps running, we’ll be here’

Branded as terrorists by President Erdoğan’s hardline regime, LGBTQI+ people in Turkey are finding ways to express themselves and build solidarity, writes Tuğçe Özbiçer.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
The face of Abdullah Öcalan frequently appears on banners at pro-Kurdish demonstrations around the world, like this one in Berlin.Photo: Jan Scheunert/Zuma/Alamy

Mandela of the Middle East?

Abdullah Öcalan’s journey to democratic confederalism.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
Pio and friends – keeping the family business going.

Mixed Media: Film

The Ciambra directed and written by Jonas Carpignano;
In the Fade directed and co-written by Fatih Akin.

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NI 513 - A better media is possible - June, 2018
Boycott Turkish holidays, say Kurds

Boycott Turkish holidays, say Kurds

The Kurdish freedom movement has called for a boycott of Turkish goods and services. Sarah Wood reports.

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NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018
Special relationship: Turkish President Recep Erdoğan and his wife are welcomed to Mogadishu by then-President of Somalia, Sheikh Mohamoud in 2016.Photo: Kaylan Ozer Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

How Turkey is winning hearts and minds

In 2011, Western donors sat back while 250,000 Somalis died of starvation. Then Turkey stepped in. Jamal Osman reports on the rise of aid from the Muslim world.

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018
Artist Kaya Mar with his satirical portrait Erdoğan, the Turkish Sun King – after France’s absolute monarch Louis XVI.Photo: PjrNews / Alamy Stock Photo

How Turkey’s citizens lost their rights

Turkish writer and analyst Hakki Mahfuz summarize the twists and turns that landed Turkey where it is today.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Turkish riot police crack down on people protesting against the purge of academics, outside Ankara University.Photo: Umit Bektas/Reuters

From lectern to prison

İştar Gözaydın was a professor of law and politics in Turkey. Until her government decided she was a terrorist. She tells her story.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
A portrait of Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) female leader Bese Hozat.

‘Freedom can’t be contained by a wall’

In an explosive interview to New Internationalist, the Kurdish female leader Bese Hozat opens up about peace, the party’s view on the region and the independence referendum in South Kurdistan, and accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the West to have incubated Isis. By Karlos Zurutuza.

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NI 504 - The Equality Effect - July, 2017
Turkish military stand guard near the Taksim Square as people wave with Turkish flags in Istanbul, Turkey, 16 July 2016.© REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Turkey in turmoil

Turkey’s president exploits the recent attempted coup against him to crack down on opponents. Chris Brazier reports.

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NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - July, 2016
Photo: Sudeep Lingamneni

Southern Exposure: Sudeep Lingamneni

Alice Melike Ülgezer’s Kurdish body art photographed by Sudeep Lingamneni.

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NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - July, 2016
Refugees wait outside a police station which serves as their registration centre, Aug.15, 2015, in the town of Kos at the southeastern Greek island of Kos.Photo: Freedom House

‘The best help comes from simple, solidarity movements’

Afghan refugee organizer Yonous Muhammadi speaks to Marienna Pope-Weidemann and Samir Dathi in Athens, Greece.

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016
Photo: Fotomovimiento

The EU-Turkey summit exposes our inhumanity to refugees

Open and democratic societies cannot be built on fear and hatred, writes Nick Dearden.

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NI 490 - Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West - March, 2016
The end of satire, Erdoğan-style (see: ‘Sense of humour’).Photo: Adem Altan/AP/Press Association Images

Worldbeaters: Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey’s president is one of the political class’s more humourless and intolerant specimens.

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NI 490 - Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West - March, 2016
Battling for Turkey's green spaces

Battling for Turkey's green spaces

One of Istanbul's few remaining green spaces is now at risk, says Nick Ashdown.

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NI 479 - Democracy in the digital era - January, 2015

And finally... Elif Shafak

Best-selling author Elif Shafak on Twitter, Turkey and making peace with her fears.

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NI 478 - NGOs - Do they help? - December, 2014
Clockwise from top left. A boy releases his racing pigeons from the high walls above the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir; a young shepherd tending his flock near the Iraqi border; a shop on the outskirts of Istanbul selling clothes bearing the logo of ISIS/Islamic State; a passionate moment during the filming of a popular TV drama, with the Bosphorus Bridge illuminated in the background; a demonstrator poses in front of a burning barricade built to stop police reaching Taksim Square during the anti-government demonstrations in Istanbul in 2013.Photos by Guy Martin / Panos Pictures

Country profile: Turkey

Samantha North assesses a country with a volatile mix of cultural, religious and political influences.

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NI 477 - Big oil RIP? - November, 2014
Denied a voice: Kurds such as these women, who fled their village when it was attacked by the Turkish army, have long faced linguistic, as well as cultural, oppression.Roger Hutchings/Alamy

'They nicknamed me Terrorist'

For decades Kurds in Turkey were banned from using their own language. Do recent government concessions reflect a genuine change of heart? Naila Bozo investigates.

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NI 473 - The politics of language loss - June, 2014
Tortured for 'refusing to kill'

Tortured for 'refusing to kill'

A conscientious objector from Istanbul was beaten with sticks until he passed out

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NI 414 - We need to think about toilets - August, 2008

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Article title From magazine Publication date
A world to win March, 2023
How we stop big oil May, 2022
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
A better media is possible June, 2018
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
The Equality Effect August, 2017
Smiley-faced monopolists July, 2016
Smiley-faced monopolists July, 2016
Technology justice May, 2016
Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West March, 2016
Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West March, 2016
Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? April, 2015
Democracy in the digital era January, 2015
NGOs - Do they help? December, 2014
Big oil RIP? November, 2014
The politics of language loss June, 2014
We need to think about toilets August, 2008
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