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In the autumn of 2015 youth organisations had started arming themselves, putting up barricades and digging trenches in poor quarters of towns. It was in response to this that the Turkish army sieged on these residential areas with tanks and fighter jets. 350,000 people ended up being made homeless and hundreds of civilians were killed (no one knows exactly how many, estimates start at 250). The destruction of the cities was not everything, the Turkish army was also attacking rural areas. Lees meer of Discussieer (3 reacties)...

For more than three weeks now, Turkey is being shaken by massive proletarian revolt, that at its peak so far have driven into streets almost 5 million demonstrators all around the country. The movement’s immediate spark was a brutal state repression, i.e. when police crushed a demonstration against destroying and redevelopment of Gezi park in central Istanbul (right next to Taksim square, a place of infamous massacre of workers in 1977 and highly symbolical for proletarian movement in Turkey). Lees meer of Discussieer (1 reactie)...

INTERNATIONAL CALL-OUT FROM GREECE for all people in Turkey and everybody in the world fighting against contemporary Totalitarianism: Lees meer of Begin discussie...