#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GERMANY #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Germany, direkte aktion: IK CONDEMNS CURRENT ATTACKS BY TURKEY AND ITS ALLIES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA - Statement by the International Committee of FAU. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is posing as a mediator in Russia's
war against Ukraine and EU and NATO countries are rightly shocked by the war
crimes, the dictatorial measures in Russia and the terror against the Ukrainian
population, a renewed war of aggression remains of the NATO state Turkey went
almost unnoticed and uncommented. ---- The International Committee of Free
Workers' Union condemns this renewed aggression and calls on all internationalist
workers and trade unionists to protest and take countermeasures. ---- Since April
17, the Turkish military has again been attacking villages and towns in northern
Iraq and north-eastern Syria with air forces, drones, artillery and infantry. The
attacks are aimed at the communal self-government and self-defence structures.
The city of Kobanê, which has become world-famous for its fight against Daesh
(also known as "Islamic State", IS), has been affected in recent days. In
addition to regular Turkish troops, Turkey also repeatedly works with Islamist
groups, some of which had previously fought for Daesh.[1]During past offensives,
these "partners" of the NATO army published videos in which Kurdish fighters in
Syria were raped, murdered and their bodies mutilated. Turkey justifies the
operations with a defense against dangers that would emanate from the socialist
organization PKK and its allies in north-east Syria. In 2021, however, even the
scientific service of the Federal Government doubted this risk situation, despite
multiple economic and military ties between the Federal Republic of Germany and
Turkey.[2]According to the assessments of many observers, it is likely to be much
more about eliminating political competition, access to raw materials and
distracting Turkey from enormous domestic and economic problems through expansionism.

In addition to Kurdish militias in northern Iraq and the autonomous
self-government in north-east Syria, self-defence units of the Ezidis in northern
Iraq are currently also affected. These are not only under pressure from Turkey,
but also from the allied government of the autonomous region of Kurdistan and the
Iraqi central government. The religious and ethnic minority of the Yezidis have
repeatedly been victims of massacres and genocides by Iraqis, Kurds and Daesh.
After mass kidnappings, rapes and mass murders by Daesh, the PKK and the armed
forces of north-east Syria had built up these independent Yezidi forces to help
people help themselves.[3]The Ezidis are still threatened by unequal treatment
and above all by the presence of Daesh and its terrorist attacks.[4]
During these military operations, the domestic political struggle of the Turkish
government against any opposition continues unabated. On April 25, activist Osman
Kavala was sentenced to life imprisonment.[5]However, Kavala is not an isolated
case: to the knowledge of the German government, tens of thousands of people are
in prison in Turkey for political reasons and are often victims of torture and
murder there.[6]Irrespective of this, Germany dramatically intensified the
deportation of political refugees to Turkey in 2021[7], and the volume of German
arms exports increased for the third time in a row in 2021, with Turkey once
again remaining one of the main recipients.[8th]
As the IK of the FAU, we therefore call for the following: Take part in
demonstrations against the war, get informed[9], denounce the double standards in
the assessment of human rights violations and wars of aggression, sabotage the
support of the authoritarian Erdogan regime by the Federal Republic! Help build a
working class movement that goes beyond national borders!

Among other things, we would like to point out a central demonstration on April
30th in Düsseldorf.

FAU members who want to work on this topic should contact the International
Committee.

https://direkteaktion.org/ik-verurteilt-aktuelle-angriffe-der-tuerkei-und-ihrer-verbuendeten-in-irak-und-syrien/
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