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April 20, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from New Left Review Ten years ago, Erdoğan’s Turkey was hailed in Washington as an example to the Muslim world a free-market, pro-American Islamic democracy with high growth rates, renowned cultural monuments and beautiful beaches. ‘A model partner’, Obama affirmed in 2009, as he congratulated the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
1 Today, with perhaps 50,000 oppositionists in jail, including scores of journalists, politicians, lawyers and civil servants, Turkey is exporting radical Islamist mercenaries from its Syrian enclaves to Libya and Azerbaijan, clashing with France, Greece, Israel and Cyprus over gas-drilling rights in the Eastern Mediterranean and imposing a brutal occupation regime on swathes of what was once the autonomous Kurdish zone of Rojava. Predictably, the cry of ‘Who lost Turkey?’ has gone up within the American foreign-policy establishment, where th
Pro-Kurdish party condemns Turkey s 22-year jail sentence for female politician
Kurdish politician Leyla Guven was arrested on Monday night per order of a Diyarbakir court. (Photo: ANF)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Central Executive Board of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in a press release on Monday condemned the decision of the Turkish court to sentence former HDP lawmaker Leyla Güven to over 22 years on alleged “terrorism” charges. Leyla Güven is a person of struggle who devoted her life to peace; she is a monument of honor. Neither Leyla Güven nor we will give up the struggle due to prison sentences and arrests.