Source: 902.gr / Translation in English: In Defense of Communism.
“The
up-to-date data information, regarding the developments in Turkey and
the coup attempt, refer to a sharpening of the internal,
intra-bourgeois contradictions, of the differences between the
various authority centers in the country, which interweave with the
total international antagonisms in the broader region of Syria, of
Middle East and Eastern Merditerranean, through the direct
intervention and juxtaposition of powerful capitalist states.
In
these antagonisms, Turkey has participated- and participates- having
as an aim the protection of the Turkish bourgeois-class interests and
its strengthening as a regional power. The active implication of
Turkey in the Syria developments, the military operations it
conducted in its northern part which is inhabited by populations of
Kurdish origin, the relations with the Islamic State (Daesh) brought
it in confrontation with its traditional allies, e.g. USA, NATO and
others.
Further investigation of the incidents and the
elements which led to the coup attempt and the final predominance of
Erdogan is certainly needed. Mainly, it must be examined which forces supported the coup,
domestic and foreign ones, what were their aims, the role of the
so-called kemalists and secular forces or the forces of imam Gullen,
which the Erdogan establishment “points” as the culprits,
“tearing” thousands from the state mechanism; the role of the US
and NATO, the real situation in the Turkish army and parts of it,
possible compromises and trade-offs that took place and impacted the
coup attempt's outcome.
A
further investigation is needed on the stance of the US and other
NATO forces, which in the beginning of the coup attempt talked about
the “need for a continuation in the state” and along the way,
when the balance had titled in favor of the Erdogan forces, they
supported the “democratically elected government of Turkey”.
Moreover, the recent moves of the Turkish government towards the
normalization of the relations with Russia and Israel must be taken
into account.
The
organised movement of signficant parts of the army, the assassination
attempt against Erdogan, the number of deaths, of injured and
arrested people, among them numerous army generals, the long time
bombardments in Ankara, the street fights in other cities do not
vindicate the argument (position) for “staged” coup or an
operetta coup. Time will clarify many of these, such as who finally
benefits or will benefit from this situation.
In
any case, the intra-bourgeois and the intra-imperialist
contradictions and antagonisms do not, by definition, foretell
anything good for the people of the region and especially for the
Turkish people who, all the previous period faced the continuous
antipeople policy of the AKP governments, of Erdogan's party. The
Turkish economy's high rates of development in the previous years and
the improvement of the situation of some middle-class strata did not,
in any case, eliminate poverty, unemployment, repression, the wild
exploitation of the working class and the popular strata in Turkey.
This
policy does not lapse by the fact that Erdogan finally managed to
control the situation. Neither, of course, the answer to the
antipeople policy can be the coups which express different parts of
the bourgeois-class, nor can excuse the arguments about “democracy's
restoration” in Turkey or the illusions- cultivated by some people-
that the Erdogan establishment can “take the message” that more
social rights and political liberties are needed.
Such
expectations are already being demolished by what happens in the
first days after the coup attempt, which show that the attack will
not be restricted in the “instigators” of the coup and their
footholds in the state sector, but will escalate against the people,
(against) their civil rights but even more against their working and
trade-unionist freedoms. On the same time, the offensive positions of
Turkey's bourgeoisie and the Turkish state are known and express for
the Aegean, (for) the dispute of Greece's sovereign rights as well as
for the Cyprus Issue which remains an open affair.
The
incidents in Turkey showed once more time that the situation in the
region “smells gunpowder” and is marked by the sharp
contradictions and antagonisms of powerful imperialist centers with
unpredictable consequences. The SYRIZA-ANEL government bears huge
responsibilities, because it actively participates in the imperialist
plans on behalf of the Greek capital; it supported the recent
dangerous decisions of the NATO Summit which mark an escalation in
the antagonisms, especially between NATO and Russia, while it
cultivates fake hopes that Greece can be an “islet” of stability
in a turbulent region.
Today,
more than any other time, the peoples' militant readiness is needed
against the imperialist war and interventions, (against) the
participation of our country in such (wars and interventions). It is
also required, that every people must not be entrapped in the one or
the other hostile- for their interests- scenario, in the
intra-bourgeois contradictions. On the contrary, they (people) have
every interest in developing their own independent, mass action, to
prepare and claim in every point and time their solution, having as a
criterion their own needs and having as an aim the overthrow of the
capital's authority, the disengagement from the various imperialist
alliances.
The
KKE expresses its solidarity towards the working class and the people
of Turkey, to the fraternal Communist Party in Turkey which in the
circumstances of an extremely negative correlation (of forces)
conducts this difficult but uniquely hopeful struggle"
Press Office, CC of KKE.
19/7/2016.
