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NAT0 expands - Kurds betrayed

Phil Hearse, Sarah Parker — 2022-07-23T10:52:50Z

Phil Hearse and Sarah Parker report on the betrayal of the Kurdish people as Erdoğan of Turkey uses the threat of veto on NATO membership for Finland and Sweden.

- IV570 - July 2022 / Finland, Sweden, Turkey, NATO

Analysing the PKK: a reply to Alex de Jong

Phil Hearse, Sarah Parker — 2016-08-26T17:25:42Z

In the wake of the failed military coup in Turkey, and the massive wave of state repression that has followed, building solidarity with the progressive resistance in Turkey and Kurdistan is even more vital. The attention of socialists and democrats worldwide will be turned towards the reactionary mobilisation that the ruling AKP has unleashed. This will put the HDP (Peoples Democratic Party) and the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) centre stage.

- Problems of the Arab and Middle East regions / Syria, Turkey, Arab Revolutions, Debate section, National question, Kurdistan

The World's Eyes are on Turkey

Sarah Parker — 2016-02-01T10:03:45Z

The situation in Turkey is changing quickly, but to see where things are now, it is useful to look back at the events of the last seven months. On 7 June 2015 the broad left-wing and pro-Kurdish HDP achieved over 13% of the vote in the Turkish general election, apparently a big victory, breaking the electoral threshold to win 80 seats, and depriving President Erdogan's AKP Party of both his overall parliamentary majority needed for the AKP to govern alone, and the supermajority he needed to move to a stronger presidential system of government.

- IV493 - February 2016 / Turkey, Kurdistan

Turkey resumes its war against the Kurds

Phil Hearse, Sarah Parker — 2015-09-29T13:21:17Z

After two years of de facto ceasefire, Turkey has resumed its aerial attacks against the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) fighters on its borders, but also launched a new wave of repression against the Kurdish population in the south east of the country. Phil Hearse asked Sarah Parker, a long time Kurdish solidarity activist, to explain.

- IV488 - September 2015 / Turkey, National question, Kurdistan

Solidarity with KobanÃª – an urgent task

Sarah Parker — 2014-10-07T10:56:01Z

Latest reports are that ISIS fighters are entering KobanÃª.

- IV477 - October 2014 / Syria

The ISIS threat

Sarah Parker — 2014-10-07T10:44:06Z

Two articles republished from Socialist Resistance giving background and an overall view of the ISIS threat and the Kurdish resistance.

- IV477 - October 2014 / Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan