Tag: Communist Party of Turkey

NOVANEWS By soL News Turkish Communist Party General Secretary Kemal Okuyan Click here to read the latest Liberation News analysis on Turkey This article Reposted from soL News soL news interviewed Kemal Okuyan, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), on the results of June 24 election results. Okuyan reminded that the political power had organised electoral manipulations quite before the elections and that the TKP pointed this out strongly in those days. He highlights that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “success” should be evaluated starting right from this point. Okuyan also noted that the coalition of the opposition was designed as a “project of the capitalists”, and that the “pro-establishment left” quit adhering to leftist values since anti-establ...

NOVANEWS By Liberation Staff The following interview was conducted by by soL news portal with Kemal Okuyan, First Secretary of the Ccentral Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), on the results of the April 16 referendum in Turkey. The Party for Socialism and Liberation extends its solidarity with our comrades fighting the reactionary Erdogan government.  soL: What can you say right away about the results of the referendum? KO: We cannot talk about an arithmetical result. They did something they are good at, and they stole the results. Our logic, our mind and conscience tell us that ‘No’ won in arithmetic terms, too. Yet, there are other results. First of all, we see all they could muster despite all their repression, exploitation of public resources, and fraud; the pic...