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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

Kurdistan/Turkey: A Newroz of hope against a backdrop of coup d'état

Mireille Court — 2025-04-17T07:09:51Z

This year's Newroz festival in Diyarbakir drew huge crowds with one hope: to finally find a political solution to the decades-long conflict in the Kurdish region. A Newroz message from the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, was broadcast over the loudspeakers, something that had not happened for several years, as Öcalan has been in total isolation. The portrait of the charismatic PKK president was everywhere, which was not previously allowed. So was the portrait of Selahettin Demirtas, former chair of the HDP party (now DEM). Negotiating a ceasefire is no simple matter.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / Turkey, Kurdistan

Türkiye: Political Crisis and Democratic Movement

Emre Öngün — 2025-04-09T06:57:34Z

The mass democratic movement in Turkey following the arrest of Ekrem Imamoğlu, mayor of Istanbul and candidate of the centre-left Republican People's Party (CHP), is a major social and political event on the doorstep of the European Union. Rallies and demonstrations are taking place throughout the country, with very large turnouts, particularly in Saraçhane Square in Istanbul in front of the town hall.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / Turkey, Kurdistan

Turkey and the Neofascist Contagion

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-03-27T09:38:35Z

The ongoing battle in Turkey has become increasingly significant for the entire world. If the Turkish popular movement wins, its victory will have a significant impact in galvanizing resistance to the rise of neofascism worldwide.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / United States (USA), Turkey, Far Right

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

Turkish people will not accept the death sentence for their democracy

2025-03-24T18:46:02Z

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- News from around the world / Turkey

Kurdistan: ‘Turkey must choose between the status quo, endless war and peace with the Kurds'.

Salih Azad — 2025-03-17T07:08:54Z

Following the appeal by Abudllah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), for his movement to lay down its arms, what are the prospects for the Kurdish people? L'Anticapitaliste spoke with Salih Azad, head of the Kurdish Democratic Centre in Marseille.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / Turkey, Kurdistan

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

Sudan: Towards peace for warlords?

Paul Martial — 2025-01-15T10:29:28Z

Turkey's mediation in the Sudanese conflict could help peace but would marginalize revolutionary forces.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / Turkey, Sudan