As EDON we express our total support and solidarity, towards the progressive youth and peacekeeping forces in Turkey, who resist and react to the authoritarianism and constant arrests of the Turkish government. We stand by the side of all those who react to Turkey's participation in the ongoing bloodshed in Syria and more widely in the Middle East.
Turkey's foreign policy is becoming increasingly aggressive. With a brutal and raw violation of the international law, Turkey invades Syria's Afrin region and at the same time seeks to upgrade its role as a regional imperialist force in the region, challenging Cyprus's EEZ and the borders in the Aegean Sea.
Within the overall feeling of government terrorism, the daily mass arrests of those who disagree with government policy and the general feeling of fear that is being attempted to spread to those who disagree, students were attacked few days ago because they responded to the festivities held by members of the youth of the ruling party at a university for the invasion in Afrin. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced arrests, imprisonment and a ban on studying for the "communists and terrorists" as he called them.
At the same time, we express our solidarity with the Communist Youth of Turkey, which is being attacked and targeted by the Erdogan government. Very recently, Turkish Communist Youth was attacked by a group of fascists, who were disturbed by the anti-war action of the Communist Youth of Turkey and its campaign against NATO.
As EDON we repeat once more that youth has nothing to gain from the wars of the imperialists. On the contrary, they must strengthen the struggles and fight to end the barbarity of the war that bloodsheds Syria and the peoples of the region.
International Relations Bureau
of the C.C. of EDON
27/3/2018