Solidarity 343, 12 November 2014

The PKK and Rojava

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the movements it leads are the main forces resisting ISIS in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan). What is the PKK? The PKK was founded in 1977 by a small group of students who had previously been involved in the banned Dev-Genç (Revolutionary Youth) organisation, one of several revolutionary organisations that formed in Turkey in the 1960s. PKK defined itself as a "Marxist-Leninist" organisation prepared to wage armed struggle for an independent Kurdistan, and its base was mainly the Kurdish peasantry in the mountains of South Eastern Turkey. It found auxiliary...

"Support the Kurds, expose imperialism": an interview with revolutionary socialists in Turkey

Workers' Liberty has links with the Turkish organisation Marksist Tutum (English language site here , main Turkish site here ). We interviewed them about the current conflicts in the Middle East. What is your assessment of the Turkish government's policy with regards to ISIS? Despite official denials and recent back steps, the Turkish government supported ISIS wherever it suited their interests. It did this in various ways: providing them shelter, arms aid, training facilities, treatment of ISIS militants, providing safe passage to Syria via Turkey etc. Recently it abandoned apparently some of...

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