SIPRI published its report regarding the military expenditure of the countries worldwide. According to the final 2010 data, and estimated 2011 data, U.S. is at the ...»

RedHack hacked the websites of dozens of police directorates all over the country in support of the KESK protest against the education draft law. Demonstrators were ...»

Öngel, Head of the Socialist trade union DİSK Research Institute, warned that the latest inflation figures did not reflect consumer spending by the poor and that ...»

A study by the Chamber of Mining Engineers revealed that 79 people died in mines in Turkey in 2011, two of whom were mining engineers. 117 ...»

At the Women Labour Conference in Istanbul on 12/13 November, Heide Hartmann suggested to make home care a part of public services. Yasemin Özgün urged to ...»

CHP politician Çelebi and the socialist trade union DİSK criticized the plan to reduce unemployment benefit to the duration of five months. They said that only ...»

Turkey ranks on 92nd position among 187 countries in this year's International Human Development Index by the UNDP. Norway is on top of the least, Congo ...»

A report of the Istanbul Assembly for Occupational Health and Work Safety revealed that 396 workers died in accidents at work in the first nine months ...»

Hundreds of thousands of seasonal workers take up the hazardous journey to earn a living with the hazelnut harvest in Turkey. Veysi Altay had a close ...»

Tensions between Turkey and Southern Cyprus are fuelled by the dispute about oil and gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean. Dr. Cengiz Aktar from Bahçeşehir University ...»

The AKP government announced that economic relations with Israel were going to be maintained as usual. The Turkish government had declared to put diplomatic relations with ...»

More than 2,000 people in Beyoğlu (Istanbul) are left jobless because the municipality had all tables of street cafés removed. "Beyoğlu was significantly harmed by the ...»

A research by the Research and Development Centre of the Public Workers Unions Confederation of Turkey revealed that 95.1 percent of the Turkish people are in ...»

The OECD report on the changing family structure yielded alarming results for the Turkish society. The participation of women in work life is on constant decline, ...»

Socialist trade union leader Çelebi criticized that the package of controversial laws included in the "Bag Law" brought several restrictions and impairments of labour rights. He ...»

The government is ambitious on economic growth, the importance of geo-politics and the alliance of civilizations. Yet again, Turkey did not manage to improve its low ...»

The constitutional reform package passed through parliament in May is creating a constant stir in the run-up to the referendum on 12 September. PM Erdoğan came ...»

ILO report states that there are 81 million young unemployed people in the world. The rate of youth unemployment in Turkey is more than twice the ...»

The state, which gives a contribution of 6 billion TL (3 billion euros) to the unemployment fund, has taken 7 billion TL (3.5 billion euros) back. ...»

The report of the Social Policy Forum reviewed socio-economic inequality and discrimination as two problems that became permanent and started to seem natural. The report suggests ...»