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Nella notte fra il 3 e il 4 novembre, lo Stato ha imprigionato la volontà di cinque milioni di curdi. Questa è la sostanza di quanto è avvenuto. È la libertà di cinque milioni di elettori prevalentemente curdi e di altri settori della società vicini all'HDP, ad essere stata rapita con forza, nel momento in cui in piena notte sono stati prelevati dalla polizia nelle loro case i parlamentari dell'HDP, eletti dopo aver superato in situazioni difficilissime la soglia del 10 per cento alle elezioni del 1 novembre 2015, un anno fa. È stata sequestrata non solo la libertà dei parlamentari dell'HDP, ma anche quella del diritto di cinque milioni di elettori di eleggere i loro rappresentanti in Parlamento.
3 Kasım’ı 4 Kasım’a bağlayan gece, devlet 5 milyon Kürdün iradesini gözaltına aldı! Yaşanan budur. 1 Kasım oylamasında, yani neredeyse günü gününe bir yıl önce, büyük çoğunluğu Kürt, 5 milyon seçmenin oylarıyla en zor koşullarda barajı geçerek meclise giren HDP’nin çok sayıda milletvekili, evlerine yapılan baskınlarda zorla götürüldüğünde ezilen özgürlük, bu 5 milyon Kürdün ve öteki HDP seçmenlerinin özgürlüğüdür. Sadece HDP milletvekillerinin değil, 5 milyon insanın kendi temsilcilerini seçme özgürlüğü ellerinden alınmıştır. Türkiye Cumhuriyeti devleti, 10 yurttaşından birinin özgürlüğünü çalmıştır!
Neden? Milyonların oyuyla meclise gelmiş milletvekilleri neden gözaltına alınmıştır? Verilen gerekçe anlamsızdır: Milletvekillerinin savcılara ifade vermeye gitmemesi dolayısıyla deniyor. O zaman geri gidelim: Milletvekillerinin savcılarca çağırılması normal değildir; nasıl oluyor bu? Çünkü dokunulmazlıklar kaldırılmıştır. O zaman soralım: dokunulmazlıklar neden kaldırılmıştır?
Il regime di Erdogan ha compiuto un passo ulteriore nella propria deriva reazionaria. L'arresto in piena notte dei deputati curdi del HDP significa la decapitazione dell'unica vera opposizione parlamentare. La discussione apertasi sulla introduzione della pena di morte espone gli arrestati al rischio della vita. L'aperto sostegno parlamentare alle misure repressive del governo da parte dei partiti fascisti turchi dà il segno all'evoluzione in corso.
Il regime di Erdogan continua ed accelera il processo intrapreso dopo il fallito golpe militare del 15 luglio, in direzione di una concentrazione di poteri sempre più grande nelle mani insanguinate del presidente.
È il risvolto interno della politica neottomana in Medio Oriente. Una politica mirata all'annientamento ad ogni costo di qualsiasi spazio di autodeterminazione curda, dentro un progetto di espansione dell'area di influenza turca in Siria e in Iraq. La partecipazione turca alla battaglia di Mosul è parte di questo disegno. Come lo è l'intesa con Putin.
Quando il governo polacco annunciò a giugno per bocca del primo ministro Beata Szydło, l'inasprimento delle leggi contro l'aborto, nessuno prese in seria considerazione la cosa. Il nuovo partito di governo - Diritto e Giustizia (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, PiS) è una forza conservatrice e legata alla Chiesa cattolica, ma l'elettorato cattolico fondamentalista in Polonia è una minoranza. Anche i credenti sono pragmatici, e, ad esempio, non rispettano il divieto di contraccezione. La gente ha votato per Diritto e Giustizia perché ne ha avuto abbastanza dei partiti e delle politiche neoliberali, essendo la retorica dei conservatori incentrata sulle questioni sociali. È molto improbabile che il partito di governo (Diritto e Giustizia) modifichi le politiche neoliberali, specialmente dopo aver accettato il CETA [Accordo Economico e Commerciale Globale], ma è pur vero che è stato il governo di Diritto e Giustizia che, per la prima volta dal 1990, ha stanziato sussidi sociali per l'infanzia.
The working class should fight against war, the state of emergency which deprives them of their democratic rights and American imperialism, not against the Kurds. The Kurds are the brothers and sisters of the workers. Preserving this fraternity would serve the interest of the working class.
Los "revolucionarios" toman la Asamblea Nacional para impedir el golpe de la derecha, pero al ratito le dejan el recinto a los "golpistas" para que en una declaración política acuerden que estamos en "dictadura".¡Qué grotesca la democracia burguesa venezolana!
“Devrimciler” sağcıların darbesini engellemek için Ulusal Meclisi işgal ettiler. Fakat göz açıp kapayıncaya kadar, binayı “darbecilere” teslim ettiler. Sebebi de bir siyasi açıklamada “diktatörlük” ile yönetildiklerinin belirtilmesi üzerinde anlaşmaya varmış olmaları. Venezüella’nın burjuva demokrasisi ne garip!
Polonya hükümeti, Başbakan Beata Szydło’nun ağzından kürtaj karşıtı kuralların sıkılaştırılacağını ilan ettiği zaman kimse çok ciddiye almamıştı. Yeni iktidar partisi Hukuk ve Adalet (Prawo I Sprawiedliwosc) muhafazakâr ve Katolik Kilisesi ile ilişkilidir, ancak köktenci Katolik seçmenler Polonya’da azınlık teşkil etmektedirler. İnançlı insanlar bile pragmatiktir ve örneğin doğum kontrolü ile ilgili yasaklara riayet etmemektedirler. İnsanlar Hukuk ve Adalet Partisi’ne neoliberal partilerden bıktıkları ve muhafazakârların söylemleri toplumsal meseleleri ele aldığı için oy verdiler. İktidar partisinin neoliberal politikaları değiştirmesi, özellikle de CETA’yı (Kapsamlı Ekonomik ve Ticaret Anlaşması) kabul etmesi bağlamında, tartışmalıdır. Ancak Hukuk ve Adalet Partisi’nin 1990’dan beri ilk defa çocuk yardımı sağladığı doğrudur.
When Polish government announced in June by mouth of prime minister – Beata Szydło- the tightening of the rules against abortion nobody treated it too seriously. The new ruling party – Law and Justice ( Prawo I Sprawiedliwosc) is conservative and related with the Catholic church, but the fundamentalist Catholic electorate is a minority in Poland. Even believers are pragmatic and do not respect the ban on contraception, for example. People voted Law and Justice having had enough of neoliberal parties because the rhetoric of the conservatives was focused on social issues. It is very doubtful that the ruling party would change the neoliberal policy, especially in the context of accepting CETA, but it is the truth that Justice and Law provides transfer of social allowance for children for the first time since 1990.
La base militare di Incirlik è una piaga non solo per i popoli della regione. L'imperialismo ha causato problemi anche ai paesi suoi collaboratori. Nel 1960, quando gli aerei spia decollati da Incirlik per spiare l'URSS vennero abbattuti, fu la Turchia a dover affrontare la minaccia. Sia dopo questo episodio, sia dopo la crisi dei missili a Cuba, le armi nucleari installate in questa base militare dagli USA portarono l'Anatolia al centro di minacce di guerra.
The Incirlik military base is a scourge not only for the peoples of the region; imperialism has brought the biggest problems to the countries that have collaborated with it. In 1960, when the spy planes that took off from the Incirlik military base to spy on USSR were shot down, it was Turkey which faced the threat. The nuclear weapons that were installed in this base by the US brought Anatolia into the center of war threats both after this event and after the Cuban missile crisis.
Драматические события, развернувшиеся в Турции в ночь с 15 на 16 июля [2016 года], слишком часто сводят к междоусобной борьбе двух различных течений исламизма: Партии справедливости и развития (AKP) под железным руководством Реджепа Тайипа Эрдогана и его главного врага последнего времени – «братства» Гюлена. Это создает ложное представление – в двояком смысле. С одной стороны, таким образом затушевывается явная возможность (и даже все бóльшая достоверность) участия других течений турецких вооруженных сил (TSK) в планировании (если не в окончательном исполнении) неудавшегося путча. С другой стороны, эта трактовка не дает увидеть более фундаментальное противоречие, в тисках которого зажата сегодня Турция: противоречие, связанное с положением страны в мировой системе.
So Brexit is here. Fifty-two per cent of the British people voted to leave the EU. This is an historic outcome. Britain, that is to say the world’s fifth and Europe’s second biggest economy, a country where Europe’s foremost financial centre, the City of London, second only to Wall Street in global rankings, is located, one of the three nuclear powers of NATO and the world’s most powerful imperialist country until the mid-20th century, is leaving the EU!
When the December 2013 corruption cases exploded, the people took to the streets to ask account for the corruption. Barricades were set up near Taksim and there was a banner above one barricade. “We are the 99%” and “Let them all go!” said the banner. But who are the “them”? Let us name “them” from left to right: Tayyip Erdoğan, Fethullah Gülen, Abdullah Gül, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Mustafa Sarıgül, Devlet Bahçeli… There is one more on the extreme right. Apparently, people who see the banner usually don’t recognise this man. Most ask “Who is this?”.
Since the failed coup attempt of 15 July, there is a lingering suspicion that the United States was aware of the planned coup, may have been consulted before or during the events by some at least of the forces involved in the coup, or perhaps may even have been involved in the planning of the coup plot. This is, at least, very clearly what some major mass media outlets have said in so many words. Reading the pro-Erdogan press in particular, the ordinary Turkish citizen may well ask themselves when and how the Turkish government will break with NATO and the US and perhaps even the EU.
They would not be mistaken in thinking that way. There is not a shred of doubt that the tanker jets that refuelled the fighter jets that bombed many different spots in particular in Ankara, the capital city, that night, including the parliament buildings, took off all night from the Incirlik base near Adana, a base that the Turkish armed forces (TSK in its Turkish acronym) shares with the US military and where, reportedly, up to 60 nuclear warheads are stored. There are many other pieces of evidence that would at least raise suspicion.
El 15, 16 y 17 de julio sesionó en Montevideo la Conferencia Latinoamericana de la izquierda y el movimiento obrero, convocada por el Partido de los Trabajadores (PT) de Uruguay y el Partido Obrero (PO) de Argentina. Más de 300 compañeros participando en las tres jornadas, hubo delegaciones del POR de Chile, Tribuna Clasista de Brasil, Opción Obrera de Venezuela, compañeros del Paraguay, del Partido Obrero de Argentina y, por supuesto, militantes y simpatizantes del Partido de los Trabajadores de Uruguay.
Τα δραματικά γεγονότα που εκτυλίχθηκαν στην Τουρκία τη νύχτα της 15ης προς 16η Ιουλίου έχουν περιοριστεί υπερβολικά στον αγώνα μέχρις εσχάτων ανάμεσα σε δύο Ισλαμικά ρεύματα, αυτό του AKP υπό τη σιδερένια γροθιά του Ρετζέπ Ταγίπ Ερντογάν και στη σύγχρονη νέμεσή του την αδελφότητα του Γκιουλέν. Αυτό είναι παραπλανητικό υπό δύο έννοιες.
Our thoughts will focus and develop on three crucial points brought forward by the DIP: a. the fallacy of “a defeat of dictatorship by democracy”; b. the fallacy that “only the Gulenists are involved in the coup”, and c. the danger of “Syrianization” of Turkey.
A július 15-ről 16-ra virradó éjszakán megdöbbentő felfordulás tanúja lehetett az egész világ: a török hadsereg egy jelentős része megkísérelte megragadni Recep Tayyip Erdoğan és az AKP kormány hatalmát, céljukat majdnem valóra váltották, de a végén leverték őket. Az imperialista országok hivatalos nyilatkozatai a demokrácia győzelmét ünnepelték. De semmi sem lehet messzebb az igazságnál! Számos hírmagyarázó viszont leragadt az AKPikormány hivatalos magyarázatánál, s a puccs mögötti tettesként Fethullah Gülen, az immár csaknem két évtizede az USA-ban élő befolyásos imám követőire mutogatnak. Ezt a ködösítést az AKP többféle célból kelti, legfőként azért, hogy a gülenistákat elszigeteljék, és ezzel elfedjék, hogy a hadsereg sokkal szélesebb rétegei nyúltak a fegyverekhez. A bal- és a szélsőbaloldalon sokakat lelkesedéssel tölt el a civilek látványa, akik felmásztak a tankokra, hogy puszta kézzel szálljanak szembe az állig felfegyverezett puccsista erőkkel. Ez is igen torz képet ad a valós helyzetről.
The dramatic events that unfolded in Turkey on the night of 15 to 16 July have been excessively confined to the internecine struggle of two different Islamic currents, that of the AKP under the iron fist of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and its latter day nemesis the Gulen fraternity. This is misleading in two senses. On the one hand, it hides from view the distinct possibility or even more and more certitude that other tendencies within the Turkish armed forces (the TSK in its Turkish acronym) were involved in the planning if not the final execution of the failed putsch. On the other, it prevents us from seeing the more fundamental contradiction that besets Turkey today—a contradiction that relates to the country’s position in the world system.
Τη νύχτα της 15ης προς 16η Ιουλίου, η Τουρκία πέρασε δια μέσου κατακλυσμικών γεγονότων που άφησε τον κόσμο άφωνο: ένα τεράστιο κομμάτι των ενόπλων δυνάμεων της χώρας προσπάθησε να υφαρπάξει την εξουσία από την κυβέρνηση του Ρετζέπ Ταγίπ Ερντογάν και το AKP (Κόμμα Δικαιοσύνης και Ανάπτυξης), ήρθε πολύ κοντά στην πραγματοποίηση αυτού του εγχειρήματος, αλλά τελικώς ηττήθηκε. Επίσημες δηλώσεις ιμπεριαλιστικών κρατών ζητωκραύγασαν για τον θρίαμβο της Δημοκρατίας. Τίποτα δε μπορεί να είναι μακρύτερα από την αλήθεια.
Con un grottesco atto teatrale, il 5 luglio, il direttore dell'FBI James Comey ha provato ad assolvere Hillary Clinton dalle accuse riguardanti il suo uso di un server privato di posta elettronica, durante il suo mandato di Segretario di Stato (2009-2013), per l'invio di informazioni riservate. Durante la conferenza stampa di Comey, i risultati dell'investigazione dell'FBI, durata un anno, sono stati sintetizzati in due osservazioni diverse e incontrovertibilmente contraddittorie. La prima valutazione è schiacciante: Hillary Clinton e i suoi assistenti furono «estremamente imprudenti» per aver utilizzato dispositivi privati nel comunicare informazioni su temi di sicurezza altamente sensibili. Considerato che l'intera inchiesta è scaturita dall'assassinio nel consolato di Bengasi dell'ambasciatore USA in Libia, avvenuto l'11 e 12 settembre 2012 (anniversario dell'11 settembre 2001!), questa condotta «estremamente imprudente» potrebbe probabilmente essere stata alla base di questo assassinio.
لا للأنقلاب العسکري !
لا لأدنی دعم لأردوغان و حزب العدالة والتنمیة !
الحل هو أستبدال هذه المعرکة إلی نضال طبقي !
On the night of 15-16 July, Turkey went through a cataclysm that stunned the world: a huge section of the armed forces of the country (TSK in its Turkish acronym) attempted to take power from the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP, came very close to its objective, but was ultimately defeated. Official statements of imperialist countries celebrate the triumph of democracy. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Furthermore, many commentators, remaining captive to the official explanation of the AKP government, point to the followers of Fethullah Gülen, a powerful imam who has been residing in the US for close to two decades now, as the culprit behind the coup. This is a mystification used by the AKP for various purposes, the most important being to ostracise the Gülenists and to hide from view that a much wider array of forces within the army have taken up arms. And on the left and far left, many are filled with excitement at the sight of civilians climbing over tanks and challenging with bare hands the heavily armed soldiers of the putschist forces. This, too, is a very distorted picture.
Extractos del comunicado del periódico Gerçek, del Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores de Turquía (DIP), del 16 de Julio de 2016, contra el golpe militar. Este fue publicado cuando el golpe -posteriormente derrotado- aún se encontraba en curso.
¡No al golpe de estado militar!
¡Ni un ápice de apoyo al gobierno de Erdogan y el AKP!
¡La solución es reemplazar esta pelea con la lucha de clases!
Όχι στο στρατιωτικό πραξικόπημα!
Ούτε ίχνος υποστήριξης στον Ερντογάν και στο AKP!
Η λύση είναι να αντικατασταθεί αυτή η μάχη με ταξική πάλη!
Ανακοίνωση του DIP
(Eπαναστατικό Eργατικό Kόμμα – Tουρκία)
No al colpo di Stato militare!
Nessun sostegno a Erdogan e all'AKP!
Opponiamoci a questo scontro con la lotta di classe!
Askeri darbeye hayır!
Erdoğan ve AKP’ye en ufak bir destek yok!
Kurtuluş bu mücadelenin yerine sınıf mücadelesini geçirmektedir!
Türkiye’nin 15 Temmuz’u 16 Temmuz’a bağlayan gece yaşadıkları, henüz ne nedenleri ne de sonuçları gerçek anlamıyla kavranamayacak bir aşamada bulunuyor. Bu aşamada kimin yaptığı bile belli olmayan bir askeri darbeden herhangi bir ilerici sonuç beklemek de somut durumun somut analizini yapacak veriler elde yokken, AKP ve Erdoğan ile beraber kitleleri sokağa çağırmak da sorumsuzluktur.
Türkiye 13 yıldır burjuvazinin Batıcı-laik kanadı ile mezhepçi-İslamcı kanadı arasında kansız bir iç savaş yaşıyor. Bu iç savaş kimi zaman alevleniyor, kimi zaman başka çelişkilerin arka planına saklanıyor. Ama 15-16 Temmuz gecesi, bu savaş en güçlü biçimiyle patladı ve kanlı bir biçim aldı. Her iki kanat da işçi sınıfının, emekçi halkın ve ezilenlerin düşmanıdır. Aralarındaki tek fark, darbecilerin işçi sınıfının özgürlüklerine derhal son verecekleri, Erdoğan-AKP kanadının ise özgürlükleri bütünüyle ezmek için daha çok yol kat etmeleri gerektiğidir.
No to the military coup d’état!
Not a shred of support to Erdogan and the AKP!
The solution is to replace this fight with class struggle!
Eccoci, dunque, all’atto finale del tradimento. Dopo essersi proclamato per anni come il primo dei difensori dei diritti del popolo palestinese, il governo dell’AKP di Binali Yildirim, dietro mandato di Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ha siglato un accordo con il governo israeliano di Benyamin Netanyahu. Ha svenduto il popolo di Gaza, che si trova circondato da un blocco imposto da Israele sin dalla guerra d’aggressione lanciata contro questa parte della Palestina nel 2008-9 dallo Stato sionista. Erdogan non solo ha rinnegato la sua richiesta di vecchia data per la fine di quello che è stato un blocco devastante, ma nel concreto si è spinto tanto oltre da riconoscerlo e da approvarlo sul piano legale. Il governo dell’AKP, secondo il resoconto dell’accordo fornito da Israele, ha assicurato che la Turchia non agirà in nessun caso per danneggiare gli interessi di Israele in ambiti come quello delle Nazioni Unite o della NATO.
We should meet the workers and the youth, the Afro-American militants of Black Lives Matter and the defenders of the environment where they are in order to convince them that the only realistic solution is for a coalition formed around the core of the working class to take power, by any means necessary. If an independent Sanders candidacy materialises, the movement born thereof should be used to form the long-awaited working-class party that will work to that end. Let us not allow this promising social movement in the US to rot politically.
There has been a massacre in the Ataturk Airport, a terrorist attack which ended the lives of tens of people and wounded hundreds more. At first, we would like to pass our condolences to the families of those who lost their lives, we wish the wounded recover soon, and the numbers of casualties not increase.
Right now, without losing any time, right before burying our deceased and while the injured are still under intensive care, we have to call those responsible to account. We know who the responsible are. Erdoğan, who Syrianized Turkey, and the AKP government are the ones who are the liable. It is striking that those in power have not taken the responsibility of a single one of hundreds of people who lost their lives until today, yet expect applaud for every grams of asphalt and concrete poured on streets. It is not solely an evasion of responsibility. It is, likewise, not just an immorality of regarding everything inferior than the hunger for power. But it is the exact reflection of the psychology of guilt.
So here at long last is the final act of betrayal. After years of posturing as the foremost defender of the rights of the Palestinian people, the AKP government of Binali Yıldırım, acting under the authority of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has signed an agreement with the government of Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel. It has sold out the people of Gaza, under a blockade imposed by Israel since the war of aggression waged against this part of Palestine in 2008-2009 by the Zionist state. Erdoğan has not only reneged on his long-standing demand for the lifting of what has been a devastating blockade, but in effect gone so far as to recognise it and give it its legal seal of approval. The AKP government has, according to the account of the agreement given by Israel, provided the assurance that Turkey will not act in a way that will damage Israeli interests in bodies such as the United Nations or NATO. In effect, Turkey, a country with a history of 64 years of NATO membership, has, for the first time, agreed to allowed Israel to establish an official channel of cooperation with this organisation and this under an Islamist government that poses as a staunch friend of the Palestinian people!
The following is an article written by Ana Bazac, Professor at Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, evaluating the meaning and different dimensions of Brexit. We are publishing this text in an effort to deepen the discussion on Brexit.
Hursit Kulter, Sirnak provincial steering committee member of the Democratic Regions Party, was last heard from on 27 May 2016 when he was being arrested by security forces. No word has been received from him since. Cases of disappearance under custody had not been seen for years. This practice was a part of the so-called “1993 concept”, which was, in plain parlance, a dirty war waged on civilian Kurdish politicians in the early 1990s. 2015 witnessed a resurgence of the 1993 concept. The case of Kulter unfortunately seems to threaten a rehash of that hideous policy of disappearance as well. We publish here an article written by our friend Ragıp Zarakolu* demanding the return of Kulter alive.
The Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, a century-old republican opinion newspaper in the fold of Le Monde or El Pais, has published a news report on the court case against the six DIP women. Below we publish an English translation of this news article.
Le sei militanti del Partito Rivoluzionario del Lavoratori (DIP) sono state assolte il 13 giugno al processo nel quale erano state accusate di propaganda terrorista nella città industriale operaia di Çorlu, a ovest di Istanbul, nella Turchia europea. Le accuse sono state avanzate a causa della solidarietà espressa alle donne kurde, umiliate e vittime di abusi delle forze armate, in un volantino, firmato dal partito e distribuito il 6 marzo per la giornata internazionale della donna.
"Nosotras saludamos a las mujeres que ejercen la defensa personal contra el barbarismo del Estado Islámico y las operaciones del Estado en el sureste de Turquía". Por esta frase seis mujeres de entre 19 y 35 años fueron a juicio. La fiscalía turca consideró que la expresión 'defensa personal' como arma contra la violencia del Estado turco, era una apología y propaganda del Partido de trabajadores del Kurdistán (PKK), una organización considerada terrorista en Turquía.
The six women militants of the Revolutionary Workers’ Party (DIP) were acquitted on 13 June at the trial in which they were charged with terrorist propaganda in a court in the industrial working class city of Çorlu, west of Istanbul, in European Turkey. This is a great legal and political victory in a time when the Turkish state is engaged in an extreme blackmail that declares any criticism of its deeds in Turkish Kurdistan as “support to and propaganda for terrorism”.
During their intervention, the lawyers presented to the court a copy of a publicity advertisement in a left-wing daily that carried the petition of our foreign friends and comrades with the signatures of hundreds of comrades and friends from around the world. We think that the success of the trial also depends on that support and we thank everyone who subscribed to this petition and, even more so, those who established the link to many of these people.