FEARS have been raised over the forced disappearance of a supporter of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) who was last seen bundled into the back of a police car in Istanbul on Wednesday.
CCTV footage showed construction worker Gokhan Gunes being abducted by security services shortly after a hospital appointment.
But he has not been seen since with lawyers saying that local police and anti-terror units have all denied holding the political activist, leading to fears that he has come to harm and may even have been killed.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
RON JACOBS is enthralled by an account of the surveillance and political repression on the left in the US
TONY FOX invites readers to come and hear the story of the remarkable Liverpudlian International Brigader Alexander Foote


