A strike by municipality workers in Istanbul and Ankara and 2,000 textile workers in Gaziantep has seen the DİSK union apparatus resort to physical violence in attempt to suppress the action on behalf of the employers and the state.
What started as friction between neighbors was transformed into attacks targeting refugees. The responsibility for this poisonous atmosphere lies with the entire political establishment.
The continued support of the HDP and the pseudo-left parties for Kılıçdaroğlu as an “alternative” to Erdoğan, despite his campaign’s pro-imperialist and xenophobic character, exposes their own political bankruptcy.