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Turkish and international academics: We will not be a party to this crime!
source: Barisicinakademisyenler.Net As academics and researchers of this country, we will not be a party to this crime! Image by © Osman Orsal/Reuters/Corbis. The Turkish state has effectively...
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The Feminist, Democratic Leftists Our Military Is Obliterating
Why is the US helping to fight the Kurds? By Debbie BookchinTwitter Right now, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is undertaking a massive assault on Kurdish communities in southeastern Turkey in...
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Refugees and the Image of Suffering: Why Does Nobody Listen?
From the diary of false faith in the outside world. Photo credit: Martin Trabalík Last year during my presence on the Balkan migrant route, I struggled with a number of new roles. First I was a...
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Neither NATO, nor Moscow (II)
Note from the LeftEast editors: The July 8/9 NATO summit in Warsaw was not much more than the usual spectacular propaganda advertisement with which the Atlantic Alliance countries wanted to show the...
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Turkey’s Attack on Rojava – A Threat to Radical Democracy in Mesopotamia
Note from the LeftEast editors: we publish this statement by Rojava Solidarity NYC, a solidarity committee dedicated to supporting the revolution in Rojava, written in response to the recent Turkish...
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Afrin Will Not Be Alone! (excerpts from the Call for Solidarity by the...
The plan of attack. Courtesy to http://syria.liveuamap.com Note from LeftEast: In the last few days, the Turkish government and mainstream media, which has been brought in line by journalist arrests...
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DECLARATION: In the face of nationalist consensus and militaristic unreason,...
This declaration by Sosyalist demokrasi icin Yeniyol, the Turkish branch of the Fourth International, was first published in International Viewpoint. German-made Turkish tanks. Photo courtesy of...
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No Sweets for Massacres: Katliamın Lokumu Olmaz! An Interview with Boğaziçi...
The “No lokum for massacres” banner that started it all. Note from the editors: In the week following a non-violent demonstration on the campus of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul against a...
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A Disharmony of Powers: Five more years of Erdoğan?
This article originally appeared on N+1mag and was penned by an anonymous author. Afrin, January 2018. SUAVE AND SYMPATHETIC, Beyazıt Öztürk is known for making even his most troublesome guests feel at...
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U.S. troops have begun withdrawing from northeast Syria as Turkey prepares to invade Kurdish-controlled areas of the country. For years, the Kurds have been close allies to the United States in the...
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“We need to support forms of liberation struggle unconditionally”. An...
Note from the LeftEast editors: The following interview was conducted with the Syrian revolutionary Joseph Daher by Italian journalist and activist Mattia Gallo. It provides an important perspective on...
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Turkey: Academics Call for Peace and Justice
We, the undersigned academics, are deeply concerned about the escalating violence after the general elections held on June 7th in Turkey. After these elections, AKP, the previously ruling party, has...
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“You are all Armenians!”—The Place of Cizre in the Terror Wars
This past weekend a stroll through a middle-class section of Turkey’s capital revealed nothing out of the ordinary besides a somewhat unusually high number of flags in store windows. Beneath the...
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#crossingnomore: “We don’t want to drown no more!”
Note from the LeftEast editors: this article has been written by Mathias Fiedler, currently in Istanbul, for BorderMonitoring.Eu. The article is reprinted here with the permission of the author. We...
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Lebanon’s Garbage Politics. And interview with Elias El Khazen.
Mattia Gallo: What are the reasons that led so many people to demonstrate in Beirut in recent days? How did the protests start? What are the claims, slogans, and demands of the people who took to the...
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#crossingnomore: “We have forgotten what it is like to feel safe”
by Caoimhe Butterly, source facebook A few kilometres away from the small Serbian border town of Sid, a dirt track through corn and turnip fields serves as passage to tens of thousands of women, men...
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The Western Hypocrite at a Crossroads
“I’m obliged, unfortunately, to note that the word ‘hypocrite’ has been and will continue to be a fixture within the diplomatic lexicon,” Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of...
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Why is Russia backing Assad?
Note from the LeftEast editors: this article written by the editors of the Russian socialist website OpenLeft.Ru was posted in an English translation by Nick Evans at RS21.Org.Uk. A whole range of...
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Interview: Gilbert Achcar on the Russian military operation in Syria
Ilya Budraitskis: It has been several days since the start of the Russian military operation in Syria and the goals and strategy of this operation are still unclear. The explanation coming from Russian...
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The Kurdish Self-Governance Movement in Turkey’s South East: an Interview...
For the past year, foreign coverage of Turkey has been focused on spectacular events: elections, terrorist acts, shooting down of Russian planes, and other geopolitical gambles. Throughout this period,...
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Common Statement of the Revolutionary Marxists from Russia and Turkey
This statement was made by OpenLeft Collective-Russia and Sosyalist Demokrasi İçin Yeniyol-Turkey in December 2015. source: InternationalViewpoint.Org After the aircraft SU-24 Russian fighter was shot...
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[VIDEO] War on Ukraine, the impact on West Asia and North Africa and...
This discussion is a collaboration between LeftEast, Dis:orient, and the Bildungswerk der Heinrich-Böll-Foundation. As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its fourth month, its impact on West Asia and North...
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