Years have passed since the September 12, 1980 military coup. Today, the military regime of that time is being remembered for its `disciplining` the society in Turkey through blood shed […]

The ICEM lodged strong protest a week ago, demanding Turkey President Abdullah Gül veto a bill giving “Private Labour Offices” broad rights to place temporary workers in enterprises. On 9 […]

Public employees this morning left off work for an hour to draw attention to the disagreements on their wage increases. Following disagreements about the collective labour agreements of public employees, […]

The trade UNION situation in Turkey   Preparation for EU Membership   The position of the ETUC was defined at the Congress in Seville in its Strategy and Action Plan, […]

Operations in five provinces have led to the detention of 35 trade UNIONists. Thursday In the early morning of Thursday (28 May), the police took Songül Morsümbül, member of the […]

On 27 and 28 May 2009, all European trade UNION leaders met in Paris to discuss possible solutions to the crisis. During this conference which was organised by the European […]

This morning in the early hours, the operation against our Confederation has started in İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Van and Manisa. Since then in accordance with the information that we can […]

Working class of Turkey extended their solidarity to European working class by adding their voices to European workers voices and  telling “Fight the Crisis: Put The People First”   Confederation […]

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced a reshuffle in his cabinet on Friday (1 May) evening. On Monday (4 May), the duties were distributed among the State Ministers. The trade […]

Social Policy Chapter & May Day – Article by Cengiz Aktar The European UNION has been waiting since Jan. 19, 2007, for Turkey to meet opening benchmarks of the Social […]