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Türkiye: From the Kurdish movement to mass mobilizations

Uraz Aydin — 2025-09-06T06:46:00Z

On the occasion of the agreement on the dissolution of the PKK, Uraz Aydin presents the history of this movement and the evolution of the protest against the Erdoğan regime.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Turkey, Kurdistan

‘Well dug, old mole!": Mass resistance in Turkey

Uraz Aydin — 2025-04-22T06:49:51Z

Erdogan's attempt to eliminate his likely rival in the upcoming presidential elections by arbitrarily placing him under detention has sparked mobilizations of rare magnitude. Faced with what could be a major turning point in the construction of Erdogan's neo-fascist autocratic regime, millions of citizens, including a newly radicalized youth, have taken to the streets once again.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / Turkey

Turkey: a mass movement builds against Erdogan's power grab

Antoine Larrache, Uraz Aydin — 2025-03-24T18:52:25Z

Uraz Aydin answers questions from Antoine Larrache about the mobilization currently building in Turkey after the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, who is seen as Erdogan's main rival in the race for the next presidential election.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / Turkey

The Turkish State and the Kurdish Question: Contradictions and fragilities of a new hope

Uraz Aydin — 2025-01-30T18:58:00Z

More than nine years after the failure of negotiations between PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and the Turkish state and the end of the ceasefire, the Erdogan regime is once again trying to force the PKK (and its forces in Syria, in Rojava) to lay down their arms. However, this new "process", initiated by the leader of the far right Devlet Bahçeli, remains unclear for the moment about what rights the Kurdish people could obtain, apart from a possible release of Öcalan, if he calls for the dismantling of the Kurdish armed forces. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has summed up his approach to the "resolution" of the conflict as follows: "Either they will bury their weapons or we will bury them with their weapons."

- IVP600 - January 2025 / United States (USA), Syria, Turkey, Kurdistan

Political Earthquake: A Double Victory for the Peoples of Turkey

Uraz Aydin — 2024-04-06T20:25:17Z

Turkey's municipal elections of 31 March 2024, contrary to all predictions, represented a genuine political earthquake where the bloc linked to the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, received its first defeat since 2002. Erdogan's victory in the 2023 elections, despite all the hopes of the opposition, had been a source of demoralization and loss of interest in politics.

- IV591 - April 2024 / Turkey

Issues and challenges in the municipal elections in Turkey

Uraz Aydin — 2024-03-27T23:29:00Z

“For the Islamo-nationalist ruling bloc, the main aim of these municipal elections is to win back the main cities, including Istanbul and Ankara.”

- IV590 - March 2024 / Turkey

Left activism in Turkey

Dave Kellaway, Uraz Aydin — 2024-03-17T12:05:28Z

“One positive approach adopted by the TIP is not to only try and win new members and support from the secular, non–religious sectors, the educated youth and intellectuals but also to reach out to the base of the more religious orientated working class and poor through work around working class demands.”

- IV590 - March 2024 / Turkey

Hope is shipwrecked: Erdogan's regime wins again

Uraz Aydin — 2023-06-04T03:38:00Z

“The fight against authoritarianism must be invested with a social, class content. And this goes through the reconstruction of the “subjective factor”, of class consciousness, of the capacity for self-organization of the exploited, of women against patriarchal domination, of the unification of local and migrant workers, Turkish, Kurdish, Syrians and Afghans.”

- IV581 - June 2023 / Turkey

Hope shipwrecked: the opposition doesn't triumph, the regime doesn't collapse in Turkey

Uraz Aydin — 2023-05-18T08:46:33Z

“In this nightmarish panorama a small (but significant) consolation is the result that the TIP achieved.”

- IV580 - May 2023 / Turkey

Turkish diplomacy, Nato and the left

Uraz Aydin — 2022-04-10T10:40:07Z

“So Nato is not only a question of international imperialist alignment for the left in Turkey, but is above all about the memory of many local massacres and murders. ”

- IV567 - April 2022 / Turkey, Ukraine, NATO