Co-ops in Bakur

A Glimpse Inside Turkey’s War on Bakur, and How Coops Try to Support the People

This post is an exert from a longer article by Alp Kayserilioğlu entitled From the Warzone of Kurdistan, published 8th April 2016 in Lower Class Magazine.

Read the full article here. As part of the indiscriminate military conduct of the state, electricity had been cut off in the area of Sur under curfew, most of the shops...

Women’s Projects Forced Under Turkish State Administration

Co-operative Economy in Bakur

cooperatives, coops, Turkey, oppression, women, Bakur, Kurdistan

This post was published by ISKU Informationsstelle Kurdistan e.V. in German on 26th May, 2017.

Bakur [North Kurdistan / East Turkey] – After Yıldız Çetin and Zeki Yıldız, the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) co-Mayors of Payîzawa (Gürpınar), were, like many of their colleagues, removed from office...

Amed Village Production and Sales Cooperative Initiative, an interview

Co-ops in Bakur

Amed, Diyarbakir, Kurdistan, Turkey, village, cooperative, coops

This interview was first published in Turkish in the 33rd issue of Meydan Newspaper, 5th May 2016.

We [Meydan anarchist newspaper] share with you the interview we have conducted with the Amed Village Production and Sales Cooperative Initiative, practising relations of solidarity and cooperative relations of production and...

Greenhouses for Autonomy in Van, North Kurdistan

Co-ops in Bakur

This was translated from a German translation of a report by Dicle Haber from May 2016. The German translation was published on AK zur Kurdischen Revolution. We are unable to find the original Dicle Haber report.

In the village Norkox (Yolaşan) near Payîzava (Gürpınar) in the eastern Turkish province Van [Wan], Metin Demir and Nadir Abdullah started an agrarian initiative for the local population. Usually, the locals travelled...

Women’s Cooperative in Bakur / Southeast Turkey Handed Over to Erdoğan’s Daughter as Part of Ongoing Repression

Co-ops in Bakur

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This report appeared first on ANF, 26th May, 2017

The Xevasor Women’s Cooperative opened by DBP’s Gürpınar Municipality was handed over by the appointed trustee to KADEM where President Erdoğan’s daughter Sümeyye Erdoğan is vice president. A trustee had been...

The First Products of Amed’s Communal Fields

Co-ops in Bakur

Diyarbakir, Amed, Kurdistan, Turkey, Bakur, cooperative, commune, women, jineologi, jineology

This report by Medine Mamedoğlu first appeared on Gazete Sûjin, 18th May, 2017. It has been lightly edited here to improve readability.

DİYARBAKIR [Amed]- While the ecologists have begun to grow crops in the field led by the Agricultural Seed Commission of Ecology Association, the seedlings are aimed to be distributed to the...

Cooperatives: an Alternative against Labour Exploitation

Co-ops in Bakur

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This is a translation of a Turkish language article by Bêrîtan Elyakut, first published by JINHA 16th August, 2016.

AMED – The Mesopotamya Youth Research Centre Textile Cooperative was launched in 2015 in Diyarbakir [Amed]. The cooperative is working collectively against labour exploitation, and is specifically geared towards women. The textile cooperative...

The Cooperatives of Van, a Model in Development [17.10.15]

Co-operative Economy in Bakur

Van, Kurdistan, Turkey, Bakur, cooperatives, women, jineoloji

This is a translation of a Spanish language article from October 2015, written by Sara A, member of a Rojava Azadi delegation to Bakur.

In the east of Turkey, next to Iran, we find the province Van [Wan]. Here, the Kurdish movement is developing several projects, including cooperatives for the production and distribution of local...

Cooperatives, an Alternative Living Space in Bakur

Co-ops in Bakur

This is a translation of a Turkish language article, which appeared first on Özgür Gündem, 2nd March, 2013

In Amed, the Bağlar Women’s Cooperative and the Beacon of Hope Women’s Environmental and Cultural Cooperative are just two of the places where women self-organise. Nurcan Aydın In Amed [Diyarbakır], the Bağlar...

Dersim’s Natural Orchards Become Cooperatives

Co-ops in Bakur

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This post originally appeared on JINHA News Agency, 5th October, 2016

DERSİM – “Natural orchard” works have been carried out in order to become the natural farming and communal production widespread in Dersim. The works have been growing day by day with...

Cooperative Organization and Municipalities in North Kurdistan (East Turkey / Bakur)

Co-operative Economy in Bakur

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This is a translation of an article published on Lekolin in Turkish on 26th December, 2013 The global crisis that has been a major topic for some time, and more importantly...

Economic Self-Governance in Democratic Autonomy: The Example of Bakur (Turkish Kurdistan)

Co-operative Economy in Bakur

Report by Azize Aslan. Translation from an article in Turkish first published by Birikim in May 2016

The “Apoist”1 thread of the Kurdish Movement, which today involves many actors and organizations in military and political capacities, has gravitated away from the idea of founding a state. With the...

A Glimpse Inside Turkey’s War on Bakur, and How Coops Try to Support the People

Women’s Projects Forced Under Turkish State Administration

Amed Village Production and Sales Cooperative Initiative, an interview

Greenhouses for Autonomy in Van, North Kurdistan

Women’s Cooperative in Bakur / Southeast Turkey Handed Over to Erdoğan’s Daughter as Part of Ongoing Repression

The First Products of Amed’s Communal Fields

Cooperatives: an Alternative against Labour Exploitation

The Cooperatives of Van, a Model in Development [17.10.15]

Cooperatives, an Alternative Living Space in Bakur

Dersim’s Natural Orchards Become Cooperatives

Cooperative Organization and Municipalities in North Kurdistan (East Turkey / Bakur)

Economic Self-Governance in Democratic Autonomy: The Example of Bakur (Turkish Kurdistan)

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