Fraternity of Peoples is Bombed in Afrin, and
Turkey is Dragged into the Quagmire of War!
Statement of Labour Party of Turkey (EMEP)
As the Labour Party (EMEP),
we call on the peoples of Turkey
and workers of all nationalities to
demand an ‘END’ to the Afrin
operation, which pushes the
country into a ring of fire for the
interests of the government.
The Afrin Operation, started
Saturday
following
long
preparations, is celebrated by the
government and its media as a
victory. Afrin is governed
democratically by the Kurds and
other peoples in the region. While
bombs rain down on the city, where
up to a million civilians escaped
from the Syrian civil war currently
live, representatives of the
Erdoðan regime – rather mockingly
– claim that they will “liberate
Afrin”. On the contrary, operation
‘Olive Branch’ is fanning the flames
of enmity between Kurds and
Turks, and dragging Turkey to the
centre of the quagmire of war in
the region.
The threat comes not from the
peoples of the region but from
imperialism and its coconspirators!
President Erdoðan and
representatives of the government
claim that the aim of the operation
is ‘national security’, and it started
following negotiations with and the
withdrawal of Russian forces from
the city. So Russia, in a struggle
with the US to control Syria, has
given permission for this operation
only because it serves its interests.
With this ‘green light’, Russia aims
to pit Turkey and the US against
each other in the region, as well
as pushing Syrian Kurds into a
corner so that they would be willing
to accept a solution under the
guardianship of Russia.
May - 2018
It is clear that those that drag
the country into the heart of this
war of domination between
imperialists, and bomb our
brothers and sisters in Syria with
the ‘green light’ from an imperialist
power, will increase the threat and
danger to our country. Therefore,
the real threat to the peoples of
Turkey is not our Kurdish
neighbors who fought against ISIS
and other jihadist gangs in northern
Syria and Rojava and built
democratic regimes with other
peoples of the region. The real
threat is the imperialists and their
regional co-conspirators, inciting
enmity among the oppressed
peoples of the Middle East for the
last 100 years and using animosity
towards Kurds to serve their own
interests.
War with Kurds sabotages co-
existence
Today, the democratic system
of the Syrian Kurds – who always
stated that they are open to
dialogue with Turkey – is seen as
a threat by the Erdoðan
government. This is because they
left no room for a solution to the
Kurdish issue, and insisted on their
politics of oppression and violence.
However, this line of politics is
dragging the country to the
quagmire of war in the region and
sabotages the conditions for
peaceful co-existence within our
borders between the Turks and the
Kurds.
The government pushes for
war to serve its own interests!
There is the option for a solution
that could mean peace with the
Syrian Kurds and other peoples in
the region and a democratic
solution in the country, but the
government is intent on making
Turkey a part of the imperialists’
plans.
The Erdoðan government, in a
pact with the nationalist MHP, sees
the Afrin operation as a necessary
step for the survival of their own
rule rather than the country.
Presenting this as an operation for
‘national security’, they are trying
to force everyone to take a stand
behind them and oppress not only
the Kurds but all those who defend
a peaceful and humane way of life.
It is clear that they want to use for
this purpose both the State of
Emergency and the statutory
decree that gives legal immunity –
in the name of ‘fighting terror’ – to
those that support the government.
We must raise the struggle for
peace in the region and democracy
in the country. The Labour Party
(EMEP), we call on the peoples of
Turkey and workers of all
nationalities to demand an ‘END’ to
the Afrin operation, which pushes
the country into a ring of fire for the
interests of the government. We
call on all labour, peace and
democratic forces to raise the
struggle against bombing ‘fraternity
of peoples’ in Afrin, against
dragging the country into the
quagmire of war, and for the
struggle or peace in the region and
democracy in the country.
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