As democracy in Turkey collapses under the pressure of the escalating imperialist war and growing social inequality, a revolutionary crisis with global dimensions is developing.
The “Nation Alliance” opposition coalition named Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu its candidate in this year’s presidential election.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held talks in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi amid the war in Ukraine.
On August 1, Ankara’s Fourth Criminal Court launched a trial of 486 defendants accused of complicity in the attempted coup in Turkey on July 15 of last year.
In what was apparently the largest rally in the country’s history, millions of people gathered throughout Turkey to protest last month's attempted seizure of power by a section of the military.
In the aftermath of the July 15 attempted coup, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has imprisoned artists, banned books and frozen academic relations with other countries.
The combination of propaganda and disinformation makes it impossible to know where the CIA ends and the Times editorial board begins.
German politicians are demanding firm measures against Turkey and the break-off of accession talks to the EU.
The attempted coup has exposed the explosive tensions growing behind the scenes within the NATO alliance, of which Turkey is a member state.
The newspaper describes a huge Pentagon/CIA-sponsored operation spanning several months and involving billions of dollars to prepare the coup.
An intensive media propaganda campaign is underway aimed at whitewashing the highest level of the Turkish military and declaring it innocent of involvement in the failed coup of July 15.
The tumultuous events in Turkey have exposed the interconnection between the worldwide eruption of US militarism and the global breakdown of democratic forms of rule.
The speed and scale of the post-coup purge are indicative of the political and social tensions wracking Turkey.
Ambassador Bass, a former advisor to Dick Cheney, issued a “categorical” denial that Washington had any involvement in the Turkish military’s abortive uprising of July 15.
US Secretary of State John Kerry indirectly threatened Turkey with the loss of its NATO membership as Ankara carried out mass arrests following the July 15 coup attempt.
The attempted seizure of power by the military in Turkey, a key NATO member and sixth largest economy in Europe, is indicative of far broader dangers across the globe.
The political upheaval in Turkey is testimony to the generalised breakdown taking place internationally in the political institutions and mechanisms of bourgeois rule.
