COMMENTARY.
By Nikos Mottas.
It
is certainly too early in order to draw solid conclusions about the
attempted military coup in Turkey. The developments and the
information we receive are rapid and continuous. Numerous questions
arise: Who was really behind the attempted Coup? What were the real
motives of this action? How will Tayip Erdogan and his government
respond in the next few days? However, what is sure is the framework
within which the developments in Turkey are taking place: It is a
framework of inter-bourgeois contradictions which reflect a sharp
rivalry between different parts of the Turkish Capital.
The
attempted military coup- as well as the almost immediate response
from Erdogan and AKP supporters- reflect a situation of internal war
within Turkey's bourgeoisie. Taking into account the significant
geostrategic role of Turkey in the region, we can understand that
this intra-bourgeois, intra-capitalist war consists part of broader
inter-imperialist contradictions in the Middle East.
The
situation in Turkey cannot be explained on the basis of the-
nevertheless existing- political rivalry between pro-Islamists
(Erdogan) and Kemalist forces; It is a deeper and much more
complicated situation. The internal political turmoil in Turkey is
interdependent with the imperialist activity in the region- with the
ongoing war in Syria and the relations of the Turkish government with
foreign powers such as the US, NATO, Russia, the EU, ISIS etc.