It’s 50 years since the energy of the post-’66 student rebels, which sparked a wave of squatted autonomous social centres across West Germany, reached Wuppertal. The most well-established of the centres that followed, Wuppertal Autonomous Centre (known as the AZ), has existed on Gathe Street for 23 years, but is now in a fight for
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Reflections on the Turkish election
“Erdoğan will never allow a loss, they will always steal the votes they need.”
As election fraud shows, Erdoğan would never cede power
The repression of the Turkish state is ever-present.
“If Erdogan loses there will be a big party. If he wins, people will go to prison”
Freedom interviewed with two election observers from the UK in Turkey for the presidential election:
Earthquake reveals growing cracks in Turkish political establishment
It’s sometime in the afternoon of February 7th, a day after the earthquake that shook Turkey and Syria. I am scrolling through my social media feed and all I see are very specific pleas for help: “So and so building on so and so street has collapsed and there is no one on-site for rescue.