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A repressive government is holding a biased referendum to increase its powers to silence opposition further—and the Tories are backing them all the way.

New decree in Turkey gives president Erdogan even greater powers already resulting in mass suspensions and dismissals of workers

The British government has lined up to support the Turkish state’s brutal assault on democratic rights.

Turkish security forces have detained at least 11 MPs from the pro-Kurdish and left-wing Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

The Syrian war is an obscenity, a brutal meat-grinder that consumes mainly the innocent. It goes on only because it is in the interest of rival imperialist powers and their local clients and allies.

Revolutionaries demand that Turkey immediately cease military operations in Syria, stop its enmity against the Kurds, and open its borders to refugees.

Turkish tanks, backed by US air strikes, swept into northern Syria last weekend and attacked Kurdish YPG forces. Meanwhile in India tens of millions of workers were due to hold a nationwide general strike on Friday of this week.

Kurdish people in Turkey are under assault by Isis and the Turkish state in the aftermath of the failed coup, argues Charlie Kimber

A battle is taking place in Turkey to decide who will gain in the wake of an attempted military coup last month.

A coup attempt in Turkey which aimed to remove president Recep Tayyip Erdogan was beaten back by mass mobilisation last weekend.

The Socialist Workers Party joins the people of Turkey in condemning the attempted military coup in that country.

Chris Stephenson, a socialist activist in Turkey and lecturer at Istanbul’s Bilgi university, has been acquitted of possessing “propaganda for a terrorist organisation”.