Joint Statement by Communist and Workers' Parties Stop the Repression Against TKP and Anti-NATO Protesters in Turkey We, the undersigned Communist

Joint Statement by Communist and Workers’ Parties

Stop the Repression Against TKP and Anti-NATO Protesters in Turkey

We, the undersigned Communist and Workers’ Parties, strongly condemn the repression carried out by the Turkish authorities against the demonstration organized by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) in Ankara in protest of the NATO Summit.

The violent police intervention, the injuries inflicted on demonstrators, and the detention of 145 communists including one member of the Central Committee of  TKP and 8 members of the Party Council, constitute an unacceptable attack on the  right to organize and protest. The sweeping bans imposed on demonstrations and public gatherings, which effectively turned the Turkish capital into a closed city ahead of the NATO Summit, reveal once again that NATO’s war agenda goes hand in hand with the restriction of political rights and freedoms.

The attempt to silence the communists cannot conceal the truth: NATO is an aggressive imperialist alliance that has brought war, occupation, destruction and suffering to peoples across the world. Those who raise their voices against militarization, imperialist interventions and wars cannot be intimidated by repression.

We express our full solidarity with the Communist Party of Turkey, with all detained TKP members, and with everyone who stood up against the NATO Summit. We demand the immediate release of all communists in custody, the dropping of all charges, and an end to every measure restricting all anti-NATO political activity.

Hands off TKP! Hands off all communist and anti-imperialist militants!

Undersigned communist and workers’ parties:

Parties of the SolidNet list:

  1. Communist Party of Albania
  2. Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
  3. Party of Labour of Austria
  4. Communist Party of Brazil
  5. Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia
  6. German Communist Party
  7. Communist Party of Greece
  8. Hungarian Workers’ Party
  9. Tudeh Party of Iran
  10. Communist Party of Luxembourg
  11. Communist Party of Mexico
  12. New Communist Party of Netherlands
  13. Communist Party of Norway
  14. Palestinian Communist Party
  15. Communist Party of Poland
  16. Portuguese Communist Party
  17. Communist Party of Russian Federation
  18. Communists of Serbia
  19. Communists of Catalonia
  20. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
  21. Syrian Communist Party
  22. Communist Party of Ukraine
  23. Communist Party USA

Other parties:

  1. The Revolutionary Communist Party of France
  2. Communist Workers’ Platform USA
  3. Party for Socialism and Liberation – USA

(The text is open for further signatures)

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