The tra­gic ear­th­quake that has just struck Tur­key once again high­lights the repres­sive nature of the regime and the muzz­ling of fun­da­men­tal free­doms. The col­lec­tives in soli­da­ri­ty with Pinar Selek express their full soli­da­ri­ty with all the people affec­ted by this disas­ter. They stron­gly denounce the Tur­kish state which, in order to conso­li­date its autho­ri­ta­rian En savoir plus surThe tra­ge­dy that has struck Tur­key is also the pro­duct of an autho­ri­ta­rian poli­cy[…]

Fran­­co-Tur­­kish resear­cher and acti­vist Pinar Selek, who has been living in exile since 2009, has come under rene­wed attack from Tur­key. Soli­da­ri­ty com­mit­tees are mobi­li­sing to sup­port her and are cal­ling on the French govern­ment to back her. The Tur­kish state is conti­nuing its per­se­cu­tion of Pinar Selek, a socio­lo­gist and wri­ter, envi­ron­men­ta­list, femi­nist and En savoir plus sur­Sen­ten­cing of Pinar Selek : call for soli­da­ri­ty for her and « all the vic­tims of the Tur­kish autho­ri­ties ».[…]

Fol­lo­wing the latest mur­ders of Kurds in Paris, the Pinar Selek soli­da­ri­ty groups are expres­sing their soli­da­ri­ty with the Kur­dish people. They recall the war­nings issued by the wri­ter and socio­lo­gist per­se­cu­ted by the Tur­kish autho­ri­ties and denounce « suc­ces­sive govern­ments that do not acti­ve­ly pro­tect the Kur­dish com­mu­ni­ty, nor all exiles and refu­gees in Tur­key ». En savoir plus sur­Mur­ders of Kurds : the French autho­ri­ties fail to hear the war­nings ![…]

by Béran­ger Domi­ni­ci The Tur­kish jus­tice sys­tem’s relent­less pur­suit of Pınar Selek never ends. After four­teen years of pro­cee­dings, a new hea­ring is due to take place in ear­ly August. Recent­ly, a defa­ma­to­ry media cam­pai­gn has crea­ted new ten­sions in the case. A look back at a case that is symp­to­ma­tic of the autho­ri­ta­rian drift En savoir plus sur­Pi­nar Selek : from judi­cial per­se­cu­tion to media defa­ma­tion[…]