In the era of decay under imperialist capitalism that we are currently going through, the mask of the civilized West has long fallen amidst recent crises and wars. The true face of racist, exploitative, murderous, genocidal imperialism and Zionism has then been revealed. The whole world saw this true face in the image of Jeffrey Epstein, the rapist, pedophile, cannibal, and murderer. Humanity has dubbed the Trump-Netanyahu faction, which has drenched the entire West Asia (Middle East) - from Palestine to Lebanon, from Yemen to Iran - in blood, directly targeting and murdering children, destroying humanitarian infrastructure, starving populations through sieges and embargoes, and elevating kidnapping into state policy, the “Epstein coalition”. The peoples of the world have equated the terrorist aggression of Trump and Netanyahu with the barbarity of rape, pedophilia, and cannibalism on Epstein Island. The monstrosity of the West under the guise of civilization has been exposed. This Epstein coalition also has a concrete institutional structure, and even an official name: NATO!
That same NATO that has spilled the blood of the peoples since its foundation in 1949! That same NATO for whose membership Turkey sacrificed, in the 1950s, its own youth in the war the USA waged against the revolutionary Korean workers and peasants at the other end of the world! That same NATO that is the force behind all the crimes American imperialism has committed against the peoples, and not only in the wars that NATO itself officially took part in (such as in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan), but also in Asia, Africa, and Latin America! That same NATO that is an active part of the genocide Israel is committing in Gaza!
That same NATO, which, like in all member states, tortured, shot, and sent to the gallows revolutionaries and anti-imperialists in Turkey through its counterinsurgency organization, the notorious actor behind all bloody mischief in this country! That same NATO, which murdered militant trade unionists and labor leaders, including Kemal Türkler, the leader of DISK (Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions) in 1980, only a month before the military coup d’Etat, using the fascist gangs it recruited for its counterinsurgency operations! NATO, which made the working people of the country suffer through several coups! That same NATO, which was so anti-worker that, especially with the coup of September 12, 1980, through the hands of the generals whom it called “our boys”, it made it possible for the Turkish bosses to say, "So far, it was the workers who laughed; from now on, it will be us"! That same NATO, which crushed the workers of the country for the benefit of the imperialists and offered these workers as cheap labor to monopolies, and to which all the governments following in the footsteps of the September 12, 1980 coup and of course today's despotic regime are subservient!
That same NATO that attempted to crush the rise of the working class in Turkey by drenching Taksim Square in Istanbul in blood on May Day, 1977, killing 34 laborers, organized anti-Alevi pogroms through the hands of the fascists on its payroll in Maraş, Çorum, and Tokat in the late 1970s to lock the country into a sectarian conflict and thus pave the way to the 1980 coup. That same NATO that attempted to suppress the Kurdish people through murders still unsolved, continued its massacres in various places from Sivas to Gazi in the 1990s, and employed the takfiri-sectarian gangs of the ISIS for its bloody schemes, ranging from the Suruç explosion to the October 10th Massacre in Ankara in 2015! That same NATO that was revealed to be a network of massacres, thievery, and drug smuggling through the Susurluk Accident in the 1990s and, more recently, through the admissions of the former counterinsurgency member, the mafioso Sedat Peker! That same NATO that lies at the foundation of the wall, which the then-notorious counterinsurgency chief Mehmet Ağar had, in the wake of the assassination of a famous journalist, talked about thus: “If we pull one brick, the entire wall would come tumbling down”! The murderer of the exploited classes and the oppressed, engaged in a vendetta with and the blood enemy of the working class: NATO!
This crime network, unlike Epstein Island, is not in some distant corner of the Caribbean. It is right in our midst… It is right at the center of the lives of the workers and toilers with its cogs of exploitation! It is in the factories that belong to NATO-member countries, which have flocked into the country in hordes after the 1980 military coup trampled upon workers’ gains and rights; it is in working-class basins of our country like Bursa, Gebze, Manisa, and Thrace! It is in the military bases and headquarters; in İncirlik, Kürecik, İzmir, İstanbul, Ankara! Mind you, NATO is not only shedding the blood of neighboring peoples by shielding Israel… How can we forget the NATO-paid actors of the coup who massacred the people on July 15, 2016? Or the NATO tankers that fueled the airplanes that bombed the National Assembly in Turkey?
Now, this very same NATO will put together a summit on July 7th and 8th in Turkey. They will discuss how to enslave Western Asia. They will give Turkey a role along this path. They will plan for World War III, which has become a real concrete possibility now! Do not believe in those who try to trick you by talking about “national interests” or the “home front”. In the two world wars combined, 100 million people perished! This time around, it will be nuclear destruction! And NATO will push Turkey right into the center of this disaster with the American nuclear weaponry stored in İncirlik!
Of course, they do not tell all this to the people. Quite the contrary, the Minister of Foreign Relations Hakan Fidan is announcing exuberantly that Trump will also be present at the NAYO summit. At the commanding heights of the despotic regime in Turkey, there is an air of excitement and joy, as if they are anticipating the arrival of “the leader the world has been awaiting for centuries”, to quote Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. For the toiling people, on the other hand, the same Trump is the protector of the Zionist genocide in Gaza, the butcher of 168 Iranian schoolgirls who were killed in his Tomahawk strike, a white supremacist racist against the Black, Latino, and immigrant peoples, and an anti-Muslim fascist. He is the ringleader of the Epstein gang. And those who will gather in Ankara from all over the capitals of Western imperialism are members of this gang. Be sure that even though Netanyahu will not be there physically, his shadow will loom over there, and all his wishes will be on the table. These “dignitaries will arrive not in capes and hoods, but the men in dark, expensive suits and ties, the ladies in elegant dresses and high heeled shoes, and they will be greeted with a state ceremony.
Workers, toilers, and the poor of this land, from all languages, nations, and hometowns! Wake up!
Life cannot continue its normal course while the Epstein Coalition gathers to talk through the traps it is setting for humanity and to plan its new massacres under the guise of NATO!
Workers and toilers, heed the call of the Revolutionary Workers Party (DIP)! Halt daily life! Make sure your unions and federations take this call to heart!
Let us mobilize workers and toiling people - organized or unorganized, blue- or white-collared, from all industries – against NATO, without any discrimination as to their religion, language, race, or hometown.
Turn this country into a hell for the enemies of humanity! Let the people of our country put a stop to this disgrace!
Revolutionary Workers Party (DIP), Turkey