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New Kavala hearing: a symptom of Turkey’s gangrened justice system

December 17, 2020 Tomorrow, Friday 18 December 2020, marks the 1,144th day of detention for human rights defender Osman Kavala. On the same day, the first hearing of his trial based on the October 2020 indictment (see recent developments section below) will take place: if convicted Mr. Kavala risks a life-long ...

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Joint statement on the killing of Tahir Elçi

Research Institute on Turkey joins 42 other organizations in a statement concerning the killing of human rights lawyer Tahir Elçi on 28 November 2015 and the lack of effective investigation into his death. Providing a detailed analysis of the shortcomings of the investigation and prosecution into the incident and ...

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

The New Kavala Indictment Constitutes the Denial of Law

14 October 2020 The new bill of indictment issued by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against Osman Kavala, a defender of human rights and peace, was accepted by the Istanbul 36th High Criminal Court on 8 October 2020, and the court ruled that Kavala’s pre-trial detention shall continue. ...

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Targeting and Investigating Organizations That Criticize Hate Speech Against LGBTI+ Must Come to an End

April 30, 2020 In days when Turkey and the world is struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, we are experiencing extraordinary times with thousands of people are losing their lives every day. Amid such crisis, the respect for human rights, the work of rights defenders and their existence are of ...

ART FREEDOM OF SPEECH TURKEY

OSMAN KAVALA BOOK TALLK

Osman Kavala Trial examined at an International Book Talk via Zoom April 20, 2020, New York Research Institute on Turkey (RIT), Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project (TLSP) and Osman Kavala Solidarity Team organized an international panel focusing on a compilation, a book previously produced by 300 friends, organizations ...

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Joint Statement Cumhuriyet trial, 26 April 2017

We, the undersigned freedom of expression and human rights organisations, strongly condemn last night’s guilty verdicts for staff and journalists of Cumhuriyet newspaper and note the harsh sentences for the defendants. The verdict further demonstrates that Turkey’s justice system and the rule of law is failing: this was a ...

FREEDOM OF SPEECH TURKEY

Ahmet Şık’s Statement, December 24-25, 2017 Trial

On December 25, 2017, during the fifth hearing at the Cumhuriyet case, Ahmet Şık was interrupted and removed from the courtroom after 2 minutes into his statement. The removal was based on Article 209 of the Criminal Procedural Code for purportedly disrupting the proceedings. Below is his statement in ...

ACADEMIC FREEDOM DOCUMENTS FREEDOM OF SPEECH TURKEY

Solidarity Call for the Academics for Peace on Trial

Academics for Peace in North America call for solidarity: “Violations of academic freedom and freedom of speech in Turkey have reached a dire situation. The intimidations from Turkish government and its affiliates toward academics have escalated to legal action, whereby peace signatory academics face 7.5 years’ imprisonment if convicted ...

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Avrupa’nın Krizi ve ‪#‎Greferendum‬

ACADEMIC FREEDOM DOCUMENTS FREEDOM OF SPEECH TURKEY

FAQ on Solidarity with the Academics in Turkey

Below are the 10 FAQs about the ‘what’s, ‘why’s and ‘how’s of the most recent call that we extend to the international academic community to support the academics in Turkey who have been encountering a variety of increasingly repressive measures just because they asked for peace. 1- What is ...

DOCUMENTS FREEDOM OF SPEECH TURKEY

Ahmet Şık’s statement at the hearing of the July 27, 2017 Cumhuriyet Trial

I will begin with a quote from the prologue of my book “We walked together on these parallel roads” published three years ago in 2014. The introduction of this investigative research describes how the mafia-like power sharing between the AKP (Justice and Development Party) and the Gulen Sect fell ...

ART ORAL HISTORY SILENCE

Speaking Through Silence – Eylem Delikanli

I collaborated with artist/activist Aylin Tekiner in an effort to deconstruct “silence” and her art through oral history. (…) Aylin shattered her silence by taking a historic journey to her past and searching for missing pieces about herself and her father. – EYLEM DELIKANLI – I collaborated with artist/activist Aylin Tekiner ...

ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Frequently Asked Questions

by Simten Coşar What is Academics for Peace? Academics for Peace is a group of academics, mainly concerned with the escalation of the conflict between the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and the PKK in Eastern Turkey, and in the scale of violence against civilian population in the region ...

ARTICLE COMMONS POLITICAL ECONOMY

The Crisis of Development and the Alternatives: Politics of the Commons and the Potentials – Ümit Akçay

In response to the economic and ecological crises which are becoming more and more frequent, more serious questions have emerged about hegemonic notions of development, which are based on the assumption that economic growth, namely the increase in commodity production, may continue forever. The discontent with the hegemonic development ...

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RIT @ Left Forum 2015

Research Institute on Turkey (RIT) is participating in the Left Forum 2015 with four panel discussions. In line with our areas of research, the main focus of these discussions is the concept of commonization. We aim to elaborate on the current state and extent of alternative commonization practices, which will ...

By RiTurkey.Org
Posted on May 20, 2015
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DE-FIRE: Introducing the Debt and Financialization Research Network

* for Turkish click here / Türkçe duyuru için tıklayınız. Dear Friends! The Debt and Financialization Research Network (DE-FIRE), a project supported by the Research Institute on Turkey (RIT), has kicked off its activities in Spring 2015. In this note, we would like to share information about our inaugural events and upcoming ...

By RiTurkey.Org
Posted on May 4, 2015
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The Global Crisis in 2015 and the Turkish Economy – Ümit Akçay

Approaches seeking the causes of the 2008 crisis in certain structural dynamics are mostly sought out within the scope of the Marxist tradition. Accordingly, the crisis resulting from the downward trend in profits by 1970s triggered significant amendments both in state-society relations and political economy paradigm. The political package ...

By RiTurkey.Org
Posted on May 2, 2015
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DE-FIRE ECONOMY EVENT

DE-FIRE: Panel on Financialization in Turkey at HMNY 2015

On April 25, 2015 the Debt & Financialization Research Network Turkey (DE-FIRE) has held a panel discussion at the Historical Materialism Conference 2015 in New York City. Below you can find the playlist including two of the three presentations and the Q&A session. More materials from these presentations will follow.

DE-FIRE ECONOMY

DE-FIRE: New Paper Published! “Interlinkages Between Credit, Debt and the Labour Market: Evidence from Turkey”

Elif Karacimen, member of the Debt and Financialization Research Network (DE-FIRE) Turkey has published her paper “Interlinkages between credit, debt and the labour market: evidence from Turkey” today in the Cambridge Journal of Economics. For details, please visit http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/3/751 Congratulations!

New Kavala hearing: a symptom of Turkey’s gangrened justice system

Joint statement on the killing of Tahir Elçi

The New Kavala Indictment Constitutes the Denial of Law

Targeting and Investigating Organizations That Criticize Hate Speech Against LGBTI+ Must Come to an End

OSMAN KAVALA BOOK TALLK

Joint Statement Cumhuriyet trial, 26 April 2017

Ahmet Şık’s Statement, December 24-25, 2017 Trial

Solidarity Call for the Academics for Peace on Trial

Avrupa’nın Krizi ve ‪#‎Greferendum‬

FAQ on Solidarity with the Academics in Turkey

Ahmet Şık’s statement at the hearing of the July 27, 2017 Cumhuriyet Trial

Speaking Through Silence – Eylem Delikanli

Frequently Asked Questions

The Crisis of Development and the Alternatives: Politics of the Commons and the Potentials – Ümit Akçay

RIT @ Left Forum 2015

DE-FIRE: Introducing the Debt and Financialization Research Network

The Global Crisis in 2015 and the Turkish Economy – Ümit Akçay

DE-FIRE: Panel on Financialization in Turkey at HMNY 2015

DE-FIRE: New Paper Published! “Interlinkages Between Credit, Debt and the Labour Market: Evidence from Turkey”

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