Türkiye

Turkiye’s stance, behind a mask of supposed neutrality, continues its cooperation with the U.S.–Israel bloc. Trade with Israel has continued for years. While the Kürecik radar base monitors Iranian airspace together with radar installations in Azerbaijan, the extent of the U.S. Air Force’s support for operations from the Incirlik Air Base remains unclear due to media censorship. Turkiye aims to transform its rising influence in the region, following the weakening of the Assad dictatorship in Syria, into regional hegemony with the weakening of Iran.

Despite all its steps toward authoritarianism, the regime fails to gain the consent of the masses. The labor-capital contradiction creating an undeniable crisis, and corruption is erupting in every field. Every new attack on universities further sharpens the anger of the youth against the regime.

23 thousand workers of the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, members of the DİSK General-Labour Union, went on strike with great enthusiasm on Thursday 29 May. The strike of Izelman, Izenerji and Egeşehir workers of the municipality has reached its fifth day. The big actions of thousands of workers on the streets of Izmir have raised the […]

By Esat Erdoğan Since 2016, Turkiye has been ruled by a new Bonapartist regime in which all powers are concentrated in the executive palace, with rule by appointed trustees without separation of powers. Erdoğan is the undisputed Bonaparte of this regime as a leader who has even “liquidated” his own party. A capitalist oligarchy dominated […]

By Hakkı Yukselen Turkish President Erdoğan has said that the country is going through a process, with a “Turkiye without Terror” being the beginning. Supposedly, this “process” is continuing and will reach its conclusion very soon! “Supposedly”, because no one knows what is actually happening except the parties directly involved!  At the very least, there […]

By Hakkı Yükselen Threats are in the air again. This time, contrary to usual (at least for now), the target is “Turks!” The story is the same again: Just when Türkiye’s economy was about to recover, foreign powers took action as they had done before and stirred up the country! In order to prevent the […]

Today in Türkiye, the voice of the youth, their demands for freedom, their search for justice and their longing for an equitable life are being silenced. The government sees every rising dissenting voice as a threat; students who exercise their democratic rights and express their thoughts peacefully are being suppressed with police violence, detentions and […]

Ocalan dissolves the PKK By Alejandro Iturbe In Türkiye, a great process of struggle against the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (RTE) has just begun [1]. A few weeks earlier, Abdullah Öcalan (“Apo”), founder and leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), announced that his party was definitively abandoning the armed struggle against the Turkish […]

For days now, Turkey has been experiencing a wave of unprecedented protests and mobilisations, which are putting the Erdoğan government and its Bonapartist regime in check. These are the most significant demonstrations since 2013, when, with Erdoğan as prime minister, the masses took to the streets for a month to protest against the attempt to […]

By Kırmızı Gazete The old saying about revolutions applies today: Great social movements come at a time when it is thought that they will never come again! This has happened again. Just like the Gezi uprising! Hundreds of thousands took to the streets and squares with anger and courage at a time when despair and […]

By Kırmızı Gazete Editorial Board Ekrem Imamoglu, the CHP (Republican People’s Party) Mayor of Istanbul, who is preparing for the next presidential elections as Erdogan’s strongest rival, was detained as the leader of a criminal organisation! Of course, together with his organisation of a hundred-odd people, including some district mayors, who had taken over the […]

By Esat Erdoğan Erdoğan’s Palace regime, which claimed that it would stop inflation by slowing down consumption, has failed to stop inflation and has brought the economy to the brink of bankruptcy. With interest rates and inflation spiraling upward, unemployment is increasing (broadly defined, unemployment rate is 26.5%), while wages and working conditions are rapidly […]

By Hakan Turgut Recently, Turkish newspapers have reported on the “outrage” caused by the response given by a call centre representative to a customer who contacted the call centre of a large company, which then led to campaigns to cancel subscriptions. In response to this, the CEO of the company made a statement saying that […]

By Esat Erdoğan In recent months, two important issues have quietly passed off the agenda. One of them was the Medium Term Program presented by the Minister of Treasury and Finance Mehmet Simsek to the World Bank. Following the program, the WB decided to increase the $17 billion it would give to Turkey to $35 […]

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Adem Topal, one of the leading cadres of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey. Adem Topal was one of the recognised pioneers of the golden generation of the Turkish revolutionary movement that flourished in the 60s. His first years of struggle, going from an Aegean village in Turkey […]

By Kırmızı Gazete 1. The results of the municipal elections are likely to lead to a structural change in Turkish politics. As a result of the regime’s aggressive economic program, unemployment and the cost of living have increased, and the reaction against these attacks has been reflected in the ballot box as a drop in […]