Tag: Turkey
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Erdoğan’s colossal defeat in Turkey — and a new hope
Hakan Yilmaz reports on the electoral defeat of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (AKP) in last month’s Turkish municipal elections and argues that the Left’s victory hints at a completely new balance of forces in which movements from below can be revived.
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Erdoğan again, but for a slightly different reason
Hakan Yilmaz examines the recent election victory of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and notes that the opposition’s defeat was particularly devastating, given the closeness of the election and the possibility for change in Turkey after the recent devastating earthquakes there.
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The earthquake in Türkiye and Syria
On Monday, February 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake (followed by another earthquake of 7.5 magnitude) struck southern Türkiye and northwest Syria in the early hours of the morning. Tempest Collective member Shireen Akram-Boshar explains that this tragedy is fundamentally political, affected by the fault lines of counterrevolution, authoritarianism, racism, and capitalism.
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Neocolonial wastelands
Daniel Johnson reports on the current situation following a 2021 investigation by Greenpeace that revealed how European countries, led by the U.K., Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, have shipped millions of tons of waste to Turkey.