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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
TURKEY’S authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was accused on Saturday of personally ordering an attack which wiped out 34 Kurdish villagers eight years ago.
The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), an umbrella organisation of parties including the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), pledged on the anniversary of the attack to build “a free Kurdistan and a democratic Middle East where no people are killed at the borders.”
On December 28 2011, Turkish warplanes bombed a group of villagers for 45 minutes as they made their way across a mountain path from the Iraqi border after they had travelled to collect supplies to sell at market.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants
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)
