On World Refugee Day, every word spoken without exposing these facts is meaningless
Nowadays, the AKP government is busy preparing a big attack against the working people, together with national and foreign capitalists. While claiming that they will reduce inflation and stabilize the economy, they are in fact planning an attack on the lives of millions of people who live off their labor in Turkey.
Among these millions, there are also migrants who have fled from the wars and plundering carried out by those who plotted the same attack, and have arrived in Turkey, left choiceless but to work under slavery conditions…
How did Turkey get to this point?
By means of the EU Agreements, the AKP has turned Turkey into an inhumane refugee camp, resulting in many new problems for the working people in Turkey, including the problem of security.
The government participated in the occupation operations of imperialism in Syria and other countries, together with the jihadist gangs it fostered. They opened doors to those fleeing the war, which itself was fueled by them in the name of religious brotherhood, and marketed those people who arrived as slaves to the capitalists in Turkey.
They imposed an unregulated labor regime on migrants with orders in favor of the capitalists. As a result, minimum wage below the starvation level has become the standard of living for workers in Turkey.
In the meantime, the government granted citizenship rights to the capitalists, who constitute a small minority among the migrants, and facilitated their integration with the capitalists in Turkey. The AKP government did use the problem of migration to realize the social transformation of Turkey, in the way they favored.
The bourgeois opposition, on the other hand, gave a big pass to all these policies of the AKP in the last elections: They tried to sell the working people the lie that immigrants were the main reason for Turkey’s current state of affairs. They covered up the treachery of imperialism and the greed of the capitalists. Thus, the AKP got away with its opportunism in foreign policy.
Now, together, they are shedding crocodile tears together over the drowning of hundreds of migrant children in the hold of a ship last week, as if they were not behind Turkey’s plight.
We will not forgive this treachery and hypocrisy!
The way the Asian and African immigrants trying to reach Europe via Turkey are treated by the European Union and the Greek government is clearly barbaric. While the murderers are in ‘mourning’, the United Nations has the task of justifying this world order.
Today, every word spoken on 20 June, the World Refugee Day, without exposing these facts would be meaningless.
It is not the migrant workers themselves who are to blame for their presence in Turkey, but the policies of imperialism and the capitalists.
The government responsible for carrying out these policies and the bourgeois opposition responsible for whitewashing them are in alliance with the national and international capitalists.
Hostility against immigrants is an enemy weapon put into the hands of the workers to shoot themselves.
If we want to live humanely, if we want Turkey to stop serving as an inhumane refugee camp or as an inferno for workers, what we need to do is to stand against the insidious attack plan, the AKP government’s interference in the affairs of other countries and the expansionist ambitions of Turkish capital.
Communist Party of Turkey