Turkey

Turkey

• Trump's Syria solitaire

  

  The US's proposed withdrawal pushes the contradictions of Trumpism to breaking point, argues Hilary Stephenson

• Turkey police attack Saturday Mothers vigil

  

  A statement from Solidarity with the People of Turkey on the recent attack against the Saturday Mothers

• Failed: what two decades of the refugee crisis could not teach Europe

  

  Europe's failure to deal with the refugee crisis is resulting in more deaths in the Mediterranean and the growth of the far right argues Eleftheria Kousta

• The Political Economy of the Kurds of Turkey - book review

  

  Veli Yadirgi argues that there is a clear relationship between the intentional de-development of mostly Kurdish regions of Turkey and the Kurdish question, finds Adam Tomes

• Scavenger capitalists - weekly briefing

  

  Carillion’s spectacular demise reveals the brute vampirism at the heart of privatisation, writes Lindsey German   

• Journalism is not a crime. Statements against the Turkish state

  

  We re-publish two statements responding to the 'state of emergency' in Turkey

• Turkish Referendum: Erdoğan’s narrow win

  

  The victory for the Yes campaign is far less than Erdoğan was hoping for and shows a country divided argues Shabbir Lakha

• Against dictatorship: statement from Solidarity with the People of Turkey

  

  The state of emergency and the so-called 'fight against terrorism' in Turkey has been used to silence anybody calling for peace and democracy

• Turkey: Erbakan, Erdogan and after

  

  Alastair Stephens finds lessons for the movement in his analysis of the recent coup attempt in Turkey

• Failed coup, new clampdown

  

  President Erdoğan is using the defeat of the coup in Turkey to repress opposition, as this analysis from the Turkish and Kurdish Centre Day-Mer explains

• The EU is no friend to refugees

  

  The EU is has a terrible record on it's treatment of refugees, argues Shabbir Lakha

• May Day: protesters in Turkey take to the streets

  

  Protestors in Istanbul denounce the draconian laws imposed on the people by the authoritarian regime of the AKP, reports Shabbir Lakha

• The refugee narrative and the myth of the EU-Turkey deal

  

  The language that politicians and the mainstream media use fuels right-wing ideologies, writes Shabbir Lakha

• Migration and the edge of international law

  

  Elliot Murphy argues that Britain leaving the EU means a break with Fortress Europe and allows the possibility of a coherent migration policy

• The inconvenient truth about the massacre of the Kurdish people in Turkey

  

  Western governments have ignored the breaches of human rights by the current government of Turkey

• Turkey: the growing call for peace cannot be silenced

  

  Turkish and Kurdish organisation Day-Mer has issued the following statement in response to the Ankara bombing

• Protesting barbarity

  

  Activists in London staged a big protest march against the shocking bomb attack on an Ankara peace rally. Chris Nineham reports and looks at the background

• Why bombing Syria is a very bad idea

  

  John Rees: UK bombing will increase the civilian death toll and the number of refugees, recruit to IS and strengthen Assad, and fuel the major powers’ arms race in the region. It is the very definition of a foreign policy disaster waiting to happen

• Will there be an independent Kurdistan?

  

  A Kurdish state would raise the hopes of millions of Kurds, change the geopolitics of the region and challenge the integrity of the existing states writes Alastair Stephens

• John Rees: Kobane can be saved if Turkey opens its border to Kurds

  

  John Rees of Stop the War Coalition says the Kurds could defeat IS if Turkey allowed the PKK fighters to cross the border with Syria and join the defence of Kobane

• John Rees: solidarity with resistance of Kobane

  

  John Rees speaking at the 'Support the resistance of Kobane against Isis attacks' protest in London's Parliament Square. Video by Shahrzad Shemirani

• Day-Mer: Kobane needs international support

  

  Nato member Turkey is effectively allowing Isis to destroy the Kurdish city of Kobane. This press release by Turkish Kurdish organisation Day-Mer, calls for international solidarity and for Turkey to allow Kurdish heavy weapons through to defend the city

• Why Obama's airstrike alliance is no friend of the Kurds

  

  The governments of the US, Turkey, Britain, Israel and the rest of the alliance for Iraq War III are no real defenders of Kurdish rights

• Day-Mer Statement: Support the resistance of Kobanê against Isis attacks!

  

  Turkish and Kurdish organisation Day-Mer have released the following statement condemning imperialist military intervention and calling for solidarity with the Kurdish people

• The way to stop the Islamic State is a united, free Kurdistan - just what the US does not want

  

  Western calls to arm the Kurds and bomb Iraq are both hypocritical and dangerous, argues John Rees

• What's next for Turkey?

  

  Erdogan has won Turkey's first presidential elections. But what is the future for Turkey with Erdogan as the nation's leader, and what do these elections signify?

• Where has the resistance gone? Turkey between two elections

  

  Volkan Aran looks at the prospects for the Left and the movement going into the Turkish presidential elections