Turkey - Statement against the latest verdicts in Turkey

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Category: Member federation

Published on Wednesday, 28 December 2016 09:09

Written by FAO

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The news reached us in the last days, about yet another prison sentence in Turkey. This time, the state which is well on its way to fascism, pointed its finger towards the anarchist propaganda. The magazine Meydan, which had already been closed down during the Erdogan’s “cleaning” after the Coup, was now hit even more. The editor of Meydan, an anarchist magazine issued by DAF (Devrimci Anarsist Faaliyet / Anarchist revolutionary action) is now sentenced to more than one year in prison. The State claims some Meydan articles were promoting terrorist methods. It is not hard to understand this verdict, yes, all the ideas which organised anarchists in Turkey are promoting like gender equality, workers’ rights, economic system based on mutual aid and without private property, freedom of the individual, antionationalistic and antifascist ideas (and of course we must not forget their support to Rojava revolution) it is all very dangerous to the State. Taking the right to write, speak and organize around this ideas, is something unforgivable in today’s Turkey. Using the rhetoric of public safety and comparison of anarchist ideas in any form with terrorism and violence is a old story, we have seen it for more than 100 years all over the world. We are not surprised nor shocked.
But, as well as our comrades in Turkey, we know that this business of the states and regimes haven’t managed to silence the roars. There will always be another Meydan, another page printed and distributed, another article written.

We send our solidarity and thoughts to the Meydan and DAF comrades; behind prison walls or on the streets, already now they are on the only possible and logical side of history.

FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN TURKEY!

LONG LIVE DAF!

ANTIFA ISTRA and collectives UP-INDE (Koper), ARGO (Izola) and Alternativa Obstaja (FAO-IFA)

Syria - Against the Assad Regim's conquest Eastern Aleppo

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Category: Statement of others organizations

Published on Monday, 26 December 2016 09:51

Written by Black Rose Anarchist Federation

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We members of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee (BRRN-RSSC) in the strongest terms condemn the Bashar al-Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies for their recent conquest of Eastern Aleppo. This brutal defeat of the Aleppo rebels, who were both secular and Islamist, has entailed massively indiscriminate bombardment and besiegement by the Syrian regime and allied Russian and Iranian forces against a civilian population numbering 250,000 people over the past several months.  On December 12, 2016, this ruthless “scorched-Earth” policy targeting Eastern Aleppo yielded a final defeat of the rebels there, in addition to an “agreement” supposedly stipulating their evacuation with families to secure areas.  Credible reports nonetheless warn that, in numerous cases, Assad’s victorious forces and their allies have not observed these publicized truces since their capture of the remainder of the city: they are accused of forcibly disappearing hundreds of men and boys since taking over the remaining sections of former rebel presence within the millennia-old citadel.  The defeat of those defending what was formerly known as “Free Aleppo” was prosecuted by the cruelest of methods, involving wanton destruction of human lives, especially those of children, by regime and Russian mass-aerial bombardment and artillery strikes of the rebel-held districts.  The extensive atrocities of which the Syrian military and paramilitary forces stand accused of having committed in Eastern Aleppo are one with the Assad regime’s general modus operandi of despotic terror, which has led to an estimated 60,000 forcible disappearances since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution in March 2011.

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