Türkiye

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 […]

We have previously described the government formed after the presidential election as the third Nationalist Front government: “The new NF government is an alliance of political Islamist and far-right gangs, various elements deep within the state, the construction oligarchy, arms dealers, energy bosses who destroy the environment, the mafia, all enemies of women and LGBTQ+ […]

By Kırmızı Gazete Hrant Dink (Armenian socialist writer) was taken from us 17 years ago in a political murder perpetrated by Ogün Samast, and the forces who ordered the murder have not been revealed. On November 15, 2023, the state and its judiciary decided to release the murderer Samast for good behavior. Parallel to the […]

By Kırmızı Gazete While the number of workers in call centers has been increasing, call center workers from big coastal cities to the inland towns of Anatolia are living in misery. In this sector, where organized workplaces are not common, Çağrı-İş (cha-ru-ish, Call Centre, Postal, Telephone, Telegraph, Telecommunication, Internet and Communication Workers’ Union – @SendikasCagr) […]

By Esat Erdogan – Kırmızı Gazete Unquestionably, the most important item on the agenda for us is the cost of living. As the rate of inflation continues to climb after the elections, we are being dragged deeper into poverty. While our purchasing power has been increasingly diminished due to the never-ending price increases, we have […]

By Esat Erdoğan / 30.07.2023 Four years ago this July we lost comrade Ahmet Doğançayır. A few weeks before he died we had gathered in Istanbul to discuss his latest writings and the future of the “Kırmızı Gazete.” Despite his health problems, some of which were caused by the severe torture he suffered after the […]

By HAKKI YÜKSELEN Even though the question, “How did they win?” is mostly asked after elections, the real question that should be asked under the circumstances is “How did they lose?” Although it has become nearly invisible in the natural turmoil that unfolded following the election, the bourgeois opposition, even in its most united form, […]