While the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan poses as a mediator in the
Russian war against Ukraine and EU- and NATO-states rightfully express theirhorror at the dictatorial measures in Russia and the terror against the Ukrainianpopulation, yet another war of aggression of the NATO-state Turkey remains allbut unnoticed and hardly receives any commentary. ---- The InternationalCommittee of the Free Workers Union (FAU) condemns this renewed aggression andcalls for all internationalist workers and unions to protest against theseatrocities and to take counter measures. ---- Since April 17th, the Turkishmilitary attacks villages and cities in North-Iraq and North-East-Syria withairstrikes, drones, artillery, and infantry again. These attacks target thecommunalist structures of self-administration and self-defense in that area. Overthe last days, the city of Kobanê, known across the world for its fight againstthe Daesh (also known as "Islamic State," IS), was affected by the attacksamongst others. Alongside regular Turkish troops, the Turkish state collaboratestime and again with Islamist groups, some of whom have previously fought for theDaesh. During former offensives, these "partners" of the NATO-army published,among other things, videos that depicted the rape and murder of female Kurdishfighters and the mutilation of their corpses. The Turkish regime tries to justifyits operation as a deterrence of threats originating from the socialistorganization PKK and its allies in North-East-Syria. The existence of such athreat, however, has even been doubted in 2021 by the scientific services of theGerman government-despite manifold economic and military entanglements betweenthe Federal Republic and Turkey. According to the appraisal of many observers,the military offensive aims rather at the extermination of political opposition,access to raw materials, and a distraction from enormous economic and domesticproblems in Turkey by means of a politics of aggressive expansion.Besides the Kurdish militias in North-Iraq and the autonomous self-administrationin North-East-Syria, self-defense units of Yezidi people in North-Iraq arecurrently affected. These are hard-pressed not only by the Turkish state, butalso by the allied government of the autonomous region of Kurdistan and the Iraqicentral government. Time and again, the religious and ethnic minority of theYezidi people has become the victim of massacres and genocides committed bypeople from Iraq and Kurdistan and by the Daesh. After massive displacements,rapes, and mass murders by the Daesh, the PKK and the forces of North-East-Syriahad helped to build these independent Yezid forces and the capacity forself-help. The Yezidi people are threatened up to this day with discriminationand especially by the presence of the Daesh and its terror attacks.Amidst these military operations, the Turkish regime relentlessly continues itsdomestic campaign against every internal opposition. On April 25th, the lifesentence of the activist Osman Kavala caused international furor. But Kavala's isnot an isolated case: With the knowledge of the Federal Republic of Germany, tensof thousands of human beings are incarcerated in Turkey for political reasons,where they are frequently victims of torture and murder. Nevertheless, the Germangovernment drastically intensified the deportation of political refugees toTurkey in 2021, while the volume of German arms exports increased for the thirdtime the same year with Turkey still being one of the main recipients of German arms.As International Committee of the FAU we thus extend this call: Take part indemonstrations against this war, inform yourself, denounce the double-standard inthe evaluation of human rights violations and aggressive wars, sabotage thesupport for the authoritarian Erdogan-regime from the Federal Republic ofGermany! Support our efforts to build a powerful workers movement that transcendsnational borders!Finally, we want to use this appeal to point to the central demonstration againstTurkish aggression in Düsseldorf on April 30th.FAU members who want to work on this topic should contact the InternationalCommittee.______________Sources and further information:¹ See the Tagesspiegel report from 2019:https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/tuerkei-kurden-islamisten-101.html² Tagesspiegel 2021, the scientific service of the German Bundestag denies acutedanger:https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/ankaras-attacke-auf-nordirak-kurden-fuerchten-tuerkische-annexion/25997914.html³ on the role of the YPG in rescuing the Yezidi: inside 2014 u.a. SüddeutscheZeitunghttps://www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/jesiden-und-kurden-im-irak-waffen-fuer-die-falschen-1.2106836-24 The territory of Daesh and the number of attacks can be tracked here:https://iraq.liveuamap.com/en/https://www.fau.org/artikel/international-committee-of-fau-condemns-attacks-of-turkey-and-its-allies-in-iraq-and-syria5 see, among others, TAZ 2022: https://taz.de/Verjudgement-Osman-Kavalas-in-der-Turkey/!5851043/6 This query to the Bundestag from 2019 provides an insight into the state ofknowledge of the Federal Government:https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/19/084/1908484.pdf7 see Spiegel 2022:https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/zahl-der-abschiebungen-in-die-tuerkei-sprunghaft-wandern-a-784f9b23-3923-4522-8adb-352f17a1fed98 Merkur 2022:https://www.merkur.de/politik/deutsches-waffenexport-volumen-2021-zum-dritten-mal-in-Folge-RISE-91493976.html_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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