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The bomb that exploded in the centre of Istanbul on 13 November 2022 gave President Erdoğan a pretext to crack down viciously on the Kurds in view of his coming bid for re-election seven months from now. But the incumbent president seems to have gained nothing by this. Political and economic uncertainties prevail today in Turkey and his geostrategy have his allies and partners worried. The tragedy on Istiklal Street which killed six and injured 81 offered the president an opportunity to (...)

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Bordered on all sides by hostile reactionary forces, Rojava stands defiantly as a beacon of hope. John Tully reports on ten years of the Rojava revolution.

Erdogan’s attack is the latest iteration of repressive, and at times genocidal, anti-Kurdish policies that go back to the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. The banning of the HDP will mark the transition of Turkey to outright dictatorship. Not coincidentally, Turkey has also just quit the Istanbul Convention on violence against women — this, as the writer Elif Shafak warns “in a country where three women are killed daily and femicide is a huge crisis". The HDP’s strong pro-fem...

April 20, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — In recent weeks, the autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has moved to ban the pro-Kurdish left-wing People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and jailed the 14 th member of the party’s 56-strong parliamentary caucus. Erdogan’s attack is the latest iteration of repressive, and at times genocidal, anti-Kurdish policies that go back to the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. The banning of the HDP will m...

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