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TURKISH police launched a nationwide crackdown on Kurdish, left-wing and Islamic extremist groups yesterday, killing a campaigner in Istanbul.
Some 5,000 police were involved in the raids ostensibly on suspected members of the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) and Islamic State (Isis).
But lawyers and activists said that members of the left-wing Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and others were swept up in the dragnet.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
