The way to deal with IS terrorism is not to “appease” Erdogan, but to recognize Rojava and end Islamist violence where it draws its power. Only the Rojava Revolution can ensure this. The Rojava Revolution entered the world stage six years ago with the great resistance in Kobanê. This resistance is revolutionary,Read More

Relating the SDC’s exclusion from the Geneva Conference and the Constitutional Committee with Turkey’s counter-lobbying efforts alone would be an oversimplistic conclusion. “This is a momentous task — to establish a foundational act, a social contract for Syrians — after a decade of conflict and amid deep divisions and mistrust”, saysRead More

PI Council member Ertuğrul Kürkçü on this crucial moment in the general crisis of capitalism: Aggravated by the Covid-19 outbreak, this crisis is a stark manifestation of the incompatibility of the dominant mode of production with human development. Until we dissolve the capitalist system itself, humankind will confront a basicRead More

The killing of young worker Ali al-Hemdan at a police checkpoint marrs the already depressive mood prevailing among Turkey’s millions of precarious and informal Syrian refugee workers fatally hit by the COVID-19 crisis. Working people of Turkey celebrate the international workers day in a perplexing atmosphere as 31 major citiesRead More

“During the impending turbulent days the only viable way for the left in defending and excercising the rights and interests of the working classes is -to repeat Lenin- to raise itself to the position of the vanguard of all oppressed.” told HDP Honorary Chair Ertuğrul Kürkçü addressing the 6th Congress ofRead More

In The World Transformed (TWT) event in Liverpool, held alongside the Labour Party conference, the honorary president of Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Ertuğrul Kürkçü, addressed a packed meeting entitled “A World for the Many.” alongside Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

For a PACE member from a country where 150 journalists are in prison, where thousands of journalists have been sacked after their media outlets have been seized by the government, and where around 40 000 social media users have been prosecuted for statements that they made on the Internet, guaranteesRead More

DAESH would have never appeared in this form should the US and the western big powers had not supported Islamist opposition movements and arm them to  stregthen their existence as proxies in the fight for regional and global influence during the Cold War and if they would have refrained from regimeRead More