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Full-on
Meanwhile, I am so tired ( Read more... ) -
Crunchy law
The thing about family and immigration law is they involve very little law, most of the time ( Read more... ) -
Canada's back
I stayed up all night. I have lots of Things To Say, I expect, but for now, two quotes ( Read more... ) -
Bank holiday
If it rains all day and you work all day is it really a bank holiday ( Read more... ) -
Bicycle! Bicycle!
I found out late yesterday that the case pencilled into my diary for today was never confirmed and thus not going ahead ( Read more... ) -
Election
Well, I wasn't able to do this from Antep, and I wasn't able to do it after I got back because life intervened. So I shall be brief.
( election day ) -
Gaziantep -- day 2
We did, as planned, meet with the IHD (Turkish human rights NGO) and with KESK, an umbrella union including public sector workers, and in particular the egitim (educators') union. This explains why we were told we were meeting the "teachers' and public sector workers' union" -- the KESK is a confederation of unions, including those for educators ( ( Read more... ) -
Gaziantep -- day 1 -- continued
The rest of the day can be summarised:
-John and I, with Pinar, a woman who is translating for us (extremely well), looked in on the AKP rally;
-we then met some people involved in a campaign called "10'dan sonra;"
-our colleagues from Diyarbakir arrived and we had a meeting with some HDP people to decide what we should be doing on election day.
( AKP rally )