Skip to main content
Young Labour activists condemn Blairite MP as an ‘apologist’ for Turkish war crimes
Labour MP for Barrow & Furness John Woodcock

YOUNG Labour activists have condemned Blairite Labour MP John Woodcock as an “apologist” for Turkish war crimes.

The organisation, which represents approximately 110,000 Labour Party members under the age of 27, voted last night to back a national demonstration in London this Saturday calling for a ceasefire in Afrin and for the body of Anna Campbell to be repatriated.

Ms Campbell, 26, from Lewes, East Sussex, was a volunteer in the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), an all-female militia that is currently fighting Turkish forces and jihadi gangs in Afrin, a Kurdish region of northern Syria.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
IRON HEEL: Police officers storm Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) headquarters in Ankara on Sunday
Features / 26 May 2026
26 May 2026

CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices

Republican People's Party or (CHP) leader Ozgur Ozel gestures to party members during his speech during a CHP convention, in Ankara, April 6, 2025
Turkey / 22 May 2026
22 May 2026
ETHNIC STRIFE: Women condemn, yesterday, a video in circulation that allegedly shows a fighter affiliated with the Syrian government holding the braid of a Kurdish female fighter after killing her, in Qamishli, northeastern Syria
Middle East / 23 January 2026
23 January 2026

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)

Republican People's Party or (CHP) leader Ozgur Ozel delivers a speech during a CHP convention, in Ankara, Sunday, April 6, 2025
Authoritarianism / 1 July 2025
1 July 2025