Withdraw from Syria for the War to End!
Post

Withdraw from Syria for the War to End!

The shelling of Jarablus targeting ISIS, following the attack on a Kurdish wedding in Gaziantep that took 54 lives, show that the government have not learnt anything from the outcomes of its policy on Syria. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş had stated “What Turkey is suffering today is a result of the policy on Syria”....

Neither the coup nor the one-man dictatorship!
Post

Neither the coup nor the one-man dictatorship!

 Attempted Coup: A counter-revolution within the counter-revolution! On the night on 15 July, Turkey witnessed a take-over of some critical points in two major cities by soldiers. The plotters took over the headquarters of the Turkish Armed Forces General Staff and the Gendarmerie General Command, an air base and Istanbul Atatürk Airport. The Chief Commanders...

The people’s choice is not one between a military coup or the one-man, one-party dictatorship
Post

The people’s choice is not one between a military coup or the one-man, one-party dictatorship

The answer is the protection of democratic rights and political freedoms; the struggle for a people’s democracy.   The mainstream political landscape in Turkey is littered with frequent attempted and successful military coups. The cost of these have always been countless deaths, torture, persecution and more violent attacks on rights and freedoms. Attempts to drown...

Explosions continue all around the country and the president ‘insists on threatening’ all that stand in his way
Post

Explosions continue all around the country and the president ‘insists on threatening’ all that stand in his way

10 people died and 15 people were injured in yesterday’s suicide bombing by IS militants in the Sultanahmet Square. New massacres could have been prevented if light was cast on the Reyhanlı, Diyarbakır, Suruç and Ankara massacres and a fight against all logistical, political, etc. backing for IS had been started. While failing to do...

Imperialists should withdraw from the area!
Post

Imperialists should withdraw from the area!

A Russian warplane was shot down within Syrian borders by Turkey near Antakya-Yayladağı. The President and government representatives have claimed that the Russian warplane have breached Turkish borders for 17 seconds and that the Russians were bombing the Bayırbucak Turkmens in the area. It is clear that the reason for Turkey to shot down the...

About the General Elections on 1st November
Post

About the General Elections on 1st November

The election results has shown that AKP-Erdoğan are the winners of the 1 November elections, forced – under extraordinary conditions – upon the country, following their defeat on 7 July. Behind this ‘success’ lies the deception of the population, through unease and fear created by politics of warmongering and chaos, in conditions where all democratic...

Erdogan and the government of war are responsible for the massacre in Ankara!
Post

Erdogan and the government of war are responsible for the massacre in Ankara!

At least 95 people died and hundreds injured in a terrorist bomb attack on the ‘Peace Demonstration’ organised by labour organisations in Ankara. Regardless of the name this attack has been carried under, the power behind this fascist terror and provocation is President Erdogan and the AKP, dragging the country into chaos and war in...

Bomb attack on Peace Demonstration
Post

Bomb attack on Peace Demonstration

Today a ‘Peace Demonstration’ organised by four big trade unions in Ankara targeted by two bomb attacks. Two bombs went off within the masses converging on the demonstration square at 10 am this morning near Ankara Railway Station. According to government figures the death toll stands at 86 and 186 people were wounded. 9 of...

On the metal workers’ resistance
Post

On the metal workers’ resistance

Metal workers’ resistance broke out in Bursa and quickly spread to other major industrial cities at time when all attention was focused on 7th June general elections, one of the most critical elections in Turkish history. Workers occupied factories and stopped production at big automotive factories of Renault, TOFAŞ (produces FIAT automobiles), Ford and Turk...

Erdogan has lost, People have demolished the threshold
Post

Erdogan has lost, People have demolished the threshold

An important election with potentially important political consequences has been concluded in Turkey. The incumbent AKP remained the first party with 40.7% of the vote and 258 seats but failed to achieve a majority. The Social Democrat CHP held on to their 25% and got 132 seats. The fascist MHP got 16.5% of the vote...