The political developments that began on March 19 with the detention orders issued for more than 100 people, including Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu and journalist \u0130smail Saymaz, continue to unfold.<\/p>\n
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On the first day of these events, the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) declared, “We Call on Our People to Organize Against AKP Tyranny.” And today, the Party has called for protests in several cities, especially in the three major metropolitan cities, with the following appeal:<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe call on all our citizens to gather today in \u0130stanbul, Ankara, and Izmir to defend the right to vote and be elected, stand by press workers and the freedom of information, and protest the government’s arbitrary practices.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not to support any presidential candidate or political party, but to stand for our country and the future of our people;<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n For the Republic, for secularism, for independence, for socialism!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n TKP also countered the government’s claims that widespread public demonstrations are orchestrated by \u201cforeign powers\u201d with a statement aimed at strengthening the resistance of these protests:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “As we have repeatedly emphasized, the crisis of governance in Turkey is deepening by the day. We are witnessing a moment where the government has become so desperate and fractured that it is now attempting to abolish the fundamental right to vote and be elected.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the government and its loyal media, foreign powers are orchestrating an operation against Turkey.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n But let\u2019s be clear: The retirees abandoned to hunger, the students robbed of their future, and the citizens deprived of their voting rights have nothing to do with foreign powers. The people of Anatolia cannot be bought, nor can they be made to betray their country.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n They are right about one thing\u2014foreign powers do seek to interfere in Turkey, as they always have.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And let it be known that it was this very government that made Turkey vulnerable to such interventions.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Privatizations handed the country over to multinational monopolies and T\u00dcS\u0130AD.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Greater Middle East Project dragged Turkey into imperialist schemes.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The fabricated operations conducted hand in hand with the G\u00fclenists shook institutions to their core and took society hostage.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The privileges granted to religious sects stripped away the remaining achievements of the Republic.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Their meddling in Syria turned the country into a playground for British intelligence\u2014and they called it a \u201cvictory.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today, a vast majority of the country lives in poverty and despair, while a handful of the wealthy hoard all the riches.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n For years, they justified it all by saying, \u201cBut the people elected us.\u201d Now, it seems, they have decided that they no longer even need the people’s vote.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Enough!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We say this to the government: Do not try to suppress the people with your rhetoric about \u201cforeign powers\u201d when the country\u2019s economy is controlled by a small elite that serves only itself, when Turkey is a NATO member, and when it has been handed over to religious sects and corporate monopolies.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This exploitative system will not stop foreign interventions.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The people will.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Workers, retirees, students, intellectuals, and impoverished farmers who stand for independence, the Republic, secularism, and equality will break the every game.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The political developments that began on March 19 with the detention orders issued for more than 100 people, including Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu and journalist \u0130smail Saymaz, continue to unfold. On the first day of these events, the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) declared, “We Call on Our People to Organize Against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":25615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,258,257],"tags":[1720],"yoast_head":"\n