Hasankeyf and ilisu dam

Turkish dam threatens town that dates back to the bronze age
Hasankeyf has survived drought, war and empire, but it could be flooded out of existence within a few years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/20/turkish-dam-threatens-town-bronze-age

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/29/turkey-nuclear-hydro-power-development
                                                               Land mines in Turkey
In 2003, the Turkish government signed the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of anti-personnel mines, and
started the implementation in March 2004.
According to the convention, Turkey must clear all its minefields by 2014.
But to date, Turkey, which is thought to have some 935,000 landmines in its border regions, has only managed to destroy 10, 638 landmines.
The majority of the mines were planted by the military on the 600-km-long Turkish-Syrian border in an effort to prevent illegal immigration and infiltration of
the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), the report said.
According to the Istanbul-based Turkey Without Landmines Initiative, at least 68 civilians including 22 children were killed and 152 others injured by landmine
explosions in 2005.
In 2006 145 people have been mines victims in southeastern Turkey. 39 people died and 106 injured. 31 of the victims are children.
The Ottawa Convention, which entered into force in 1999, binds all its members to destroy all anti-personnel mines in its stockpiles within four years and to
remove and destroy planted landmines within 10 years.
http://www.bianet.org/english/kategori/english/106109/turkeys-landmines-still-in-place
                                                            The illegal refugees in Turkey
According the refugees coordinator of Humen Rights Agenda (a human right association in Turkey)
Mr. Orcun Ulusoy,  410 refugees have died and 402 have been missed in Aegean sea
between 1994-2007.
82 refugees died and 102 have been missed in 2007.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/dec/10/turkey.greece

http://www.bianet.org/english/kategori/english/101739/police-cover-up-in-okeys-death

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=111302
                                                                                                                                      
Stories ideas for Documentary and news stories
                                      Honour killings in southeastern Turkey
influenced by conservative Islam, a young woman tries to take her life. Others have been stoned to death, strangled, shot or buried alive. Their
offenses ranged from stealing a glance at a boy to wearing a short skirt, wanting to go to the movies, being raped by a stranger or relative or
having consensual sex.

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=84215

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=46450
The mines are planted in Turkey's east and southeast borders.
Turkey Syria border 510 km. 615.149 mines
Turkey Iraq border 42 km. 75.115 mines
Turkey Iran Border 109 km 191.428 mines
Turkey Armenia border 17 km 21.984 mines
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                                                           Kurdish seasonal workers
August 8 2008, Turkish daily news
Seasonal workers from eastern and southeastern Anatolia who come to pick hazelnuts in the Black Sea province of Ordu have once again been
removed from their camps, as the Ordu governor has forbidden workers to put up tents en masse in the city center this year, news agencies
reported yesterday.
For more click the link below
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=112013
19 August 2008
Discrimination Adds to The Plight of Seasonal Workers.
The Human Rights Association investigates the conditions of the seasonal workers in the Black Sea provinces of Turkey. As if not enough that
they are discriminated economically, they are also treated as criminals.
For more click the link below
http://www.bianet.org/english/kategori/english/109120/discrimination-adds-to-the-plight-of-seasonal-workers
30 August 2008
22  Kurdish seasonal workers from diyarbakir were injured in a car accident between Malatya and Diyarbakir while they were going back home
from from Duzce where they did Hazelnut harvest.
30 August 2008
2 brothers have been killed and 3 people have been injured in a fight in Polatli Ankara between Kurdish seasonal workers and their foremans.
06 August 2008
20 Kurdish seasonal workers have been injured in a car accident near Suruc between Sanli Urfa and Gaziantep while they were going for
Hazelnut harvest.
15 July 2008
3 child seasonal workers died in a car accident in Malatya and 30 people injured.
April 13 2008
A truck full of Kurdish seasonal workes from Urfa overturned in an accident in Afyon and 9 people died and 35 people injured. All of those died
and injured were from same family.
06 August 2007
29 Kurdish seasonal workers injured in a car accident near Adiyaman. A truck full of seasonal workers was taking them from Urfa to Giresun for
hazelnut harvest.
August 2007:  24 seasonal workers died in an accident near Sivas.
August 2007: 18 seasonal workers died and 13 injured
July 2007: 2 died and 35 injured Kurdish seasonal workers injured in car accident in Afyon.
February 2007: 10 Kurdish workers died and 42 injured in Ceylanpınar, Urfa.
November 2005: Train hit the workers truck, 10 died and 32 injure din Mersin. Mersin'de
September 2003: 3 cotton workers deid in Batman in a truck accident.
October 2002: 1 worker died 10 injured in truck accident in Kirikhan, Hatay.
African Refugee Festus Ok was killed by gunshot
while in police custody in Istanbul
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      Alevis In Turkey
Who are Alevis? What is Alevism?  
http://www.alevibektasi.org/xalevis1.htm

Prime Minister's Consultant For Alevi Affairs Resigns
The AKP deputyReha Çamuroğlu, also the Prime Minister’s
consultant for the matters related to Turkey’s Alevi
community resigns his post,claiming that the AKP
administration will not implement the Alevi reform package.

Alevis in the Balance By Nibras Kazimi | October 17, 2006
http://www.nysun.com/opinion/alevis-in-the-balance/41692/

Who are the Alevis? Posted by Becer Gul 04 August 2008
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-faith-column/2008/08/alevis-ali-turkey-killed

Tunceli Turkey, Washington times may 23 2006
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2006/may/23/20060523-112232-5725r/
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Denim sandblasters contract fatal silicosis in illegal workshops

Hundreds of workers in Turkey are exposed to the deadly disease silicosis simply because they were hired to manually sandblast denim in makeshift illegal
workshops where the health and well-being of laborers were disregarded and safety gear ignored, activists say.

http://www.kotiscileri.org/kategori/english

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/health/silicosis-from-work-on-blue-jeans-killed-workers-study-says.html