We need to talk about the Turkish elections. Urgently. Because President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may have won the presidential vote. But he didn't win it fairly, and Turkey cannot call itself a democracy.
Even discounting the problems with the casting and counting of ballots, the campaign itself was not democratic. Kurdish MP Hişyar...
As Turkey goes to the polls for its most important election in modern history, there are many reasons why the election and the results could be extremely suspect. Held under emergency law, the coalition between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has introduced...
Over a hundred people gathered in front of the BBC building in London on Saturday 26 May. Their aim? To call out British complicity in the Turkish invasion of Afrin in northern Syria.
Specifically, speakers denounced the BBC's coverage of Turkey's behaviour towards Kurdish people both at home and abroad. And they said the BBC and the...
Kurdish groups have accused Theresa May of racism after her meeting with Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The groups were responding to May's comments at a joint press conference held with Erdoğan on 15 May. She stated:
It is important that in defense of democracy, which has been facing extraordinary pressures from the failed...
Friends of Anna Campbell, the British anti-terror fighter killed in northern Syria, have occupied the roof of an arms company. They have taken the action to protest Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's visit to the UK. And they have a clear message about Theresa May as she meets with Erdoğan in London:
She is complicit in the...
Britain's right-wing tabloids have been trying to use a crisis in a foreign country to attack Jeremy Corbyn. But that exposes their blatant hypocrisy. Because one of Theresa May's closest allies is an (alleged) war criminal.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is under threat of prosecution for genocide, crimes against humanity,...
Labour MP David Lammy has written a strongly worded letter to UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. He asked Johnson to condemn the human rights crackdown taking place in Turkey. The latest repression has seen the imprisonment of the head of Amnesty International Turkey and the dismissal of more than 7,000 citizens from police and...
A British and US-armed foreign power is bombing civilians and anti-terrorist units in Syria that are currently receiving strategic support from, wait for it, the US and the UK.
The Kurdish-led YPG (People's Protection Units) is currently helping to liberate the Daesh (Isis/Isil) stronghold of Raqqa. But it is now under sustained...
After NATO member Turkey bombed anti-terrorist ground forces in Syria and Iraq on 25 April, the US Department of State released a statement of condemnation. This was a public dressing down. But so far, it appears to have had little impact.
Condemnation
A Department of State press statement by Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner...
In the early hours of 25 April 2017, Turkish jet fighters reportedly bombed the headquarters of the front-line troops fighting Daesh (Isis/Isil). This came only weeks after the latest arms deal secured by British Prime Minister Theresa May with Turkey's increasingly authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Arms that include jet...
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