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All For the Sake of the Eternal State? The Upcoming Local Elections in Turkey

Post author By Alp Kayserilioğlu
Post date March 30, 2019

A woman at a demonstration holds up images of protestors killed during the June 2013 Gezi demonstrations, along with the words, "We will not forget! We will not let people forget!" Source: Gazete Manifesto.

People in Turkey are once again called upon to go to the polls on March 31. This time around local elections are on the agenda. The administrations of provinces, districts and neighborhoods respectively are to be elected. One would think that local elections certainly have some importance, but are hardly decisive for the fate of […]

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Afrin Will Not Be Alone! (excerpts from the Call for Solidarity by the Democratic Administration of Rojava)

Post author By Rojava
Post date January 19, 2018

Note from LeftEast: In the last few days, the Turkish government and mainstream media, which has been brought in line by journalist arrests (at least 122 in prison so far, another 520 being tried) and other, less visible forms of pressure, have gone into war frenzy. What three years ago they used to neutrally call […]

Tags afrin, call for solidarity, kurdish, rojava, Syria, turkish invasion