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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to MPs of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, today
TRADE UNIONS and progressives refused to be intimidated by the Turkish state which was accused of an aggressive attempt at silencing solidarity with Kurdish people today.
General secretaries of 14 unions — including Unite, the CWU, Aslef and Usdaw — remained defiant after being sent a letter from Turkey’s ambassador to Britain Umit Yalcin demanding they pull out of the Freedom for Ocalan campaign which was launched in Parliament in 2016.
Abdullah Ocalan is the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is deemed a terrorist organisation by Turkey, Britain and the EU.
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)
