The “Full Employment” Fallacy
Written by: Guy Fraser Guest Author,Repeacer at Repeace Turkiye and at Repeace Iceland What does a 1912 Baker and a 1959 Opel have in common? In 1973, a small team of engineers took an existing...
View ArticleWhy is the USA Supporting Erdogan’s Regime?
The US Government is often very quick to criticize any other government oppressing its own people. Interestingly, the Obama Administration has been extremely reluctant to condemn horrific treatment of...
View ArticleFrance is Shutting Down a Far-right Group
France’s Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault repeated his promise today, to crack down on fascist groups in the country. Ayrault asked the interior minister of France to take steps “immediately” to...
View ArticleA HUMANITARIAN CALL TO THE GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY
PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION OF TURKEY Address: Tunus Cad. 59 / 5 Kavaklıdere / Ankara / Turkey Phone: +90 312 468 74 97 Fax:+90 312 426 04 53 Web Site: www.psikiyatri.org.tr E-mail:...
View ArticleSwiss Support Tougher Asylum Legislation as Refugee Numbers Spike
In a referendum on Sunday June 9, Swiss voters have overwhelmingly backed government’s move to tighten asylum restrictions, while the number of refugees in the country has spiked. Human rights...
View ArticleTurkish Police Beat and Arrested Attorneys in Courthouse (Video)
Caglayan Courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey, was a scene of scuffle and disgrace earlier today, when a group of police officers beat up and detained more than 50 attorneys who were in the courthouse to...
View ArticleTurkey Arrests Two Canadian Journalists
Canadian CBC News reports that two of their journalists Sasa Petricic and Derek Stoffel were detained by Turkish police on Wednesday, while covering the ongoing protests in Istanbul. Sasa Petricic has...
View ArticleMuslim Brotherhood Fully Supports Erdogan, Al-Qaradawi Say
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, president of the Association of Muslim Scholars, and the ideological leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, issued a written statement yesterday stating he fully supports Erdogan....
View ArticleGreece Shuts Down National Public Broadcaster ERT
The reaction to the Greek government’s decision to shut down public broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) on Tuesday, is continuing. Today, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has...
View ArticleEgypt Cuts All Ties With Syria
Speaking at a conference on the Syrian uprising in Cairo on Saturday, President Mohamed Morsi announced that Egypt will be cutting all ties with Syria. He ordered the Syrian embassies in Damascus and...
View ArticleBREAKING! UK Government Spied On Allies At TWO G20 Summits (Video)
Bombshell report on the Guardian today claims that the British government spied on politicians and officials who participated in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009, according to documents...
View ArticleErdogan Met Top CIA Chiefs and Bush before Becoming PM
116 Days in Twilight Translated transcript of the video: On December 12, 1997, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while he was still the mayor of Istanbul, was arrested for citing a poem in Siirt (city), and sent...
View ArticleSyrian Opposition Forces are Terrorists, Barzani Says
According to a new report on Alsumaria TV, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki and Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s president Massoud Barzani both confirmed that the weapons given to Syrian opposition groups...
View ArticleRussian Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Muslim Hijab in Schools
RT reports that a branch of Russia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a group of Muslims for the right of schoolgirls to wear traditional religious attire, specifically the hijab, in classrooms....
View ArticleApple Found Guilty of Price Fixing
Apple has been found guilty of a conspiracy to fix the price of eBooks, after a court battle with the US Department of Justice. The company could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in...
View Article‘Lap-Gate’: Irish MP Grabs Female MP during Debates over Landmark Abortion Bill
A historical decision in the Republic of Ireland, to allow abortion for the first time in certain cases, has been overshadowed by the unbelievably ‘sexist’ behavior of one of the male MPs. In the early...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan Ends Lease of USA Military Base, as Russia Promises more Aid
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that Russia is going to start sending $1 billion in weapons to Kyrgyzstan this year, as part of a bilateral armed forces assistance program. This...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda Kills Free Syrian Army Commander (Video)
Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander Kamal Hamami, also known as Abu Basir al-Ladkani, was shot dead following a meeting with the Al-Qaeda militants in the Syrian port city of Latakia on July 11th. Also a...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda to Announce an Islamic State in Syria, FSA Claims
Al-Qaeda is about to announce an Islamic State in northern Syria, says a senior figure in the Free Syrian Army (FSA), according to a report in Asharq Al-Awsat. Asking to remain anonymous, the source...
View ArticleWe Are Relocating!
Dear readers, We are relocating! The Progressive Press will be closed until September 20, 2013. Founder and publisher Emine Dilek is moving to Madrid, Spain and the magazine will be based in Madrid,...
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