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NATO, Hands off Syria! Hands off Turkey! Turkish People Take Action against deployment of Patriot Missiles Against Syria


By Taylor Goel
On Jan. 10, the Communist Party of Turkey launched a new campaign against the deployment of Patriot missile batteries in Turkey. Members of TKP have set up a tent in a park in downtown Ankara to gather signatures against the deployment of Patriot missiles and NATO intervention in Syria. They will be on a symbolic and non-stop guard duty until Jan. 20 which is the expected date of arrival for the missiles. The petitioning campaign appropriately named “Stand guard against Patriot Missiles” has been received with great interest and support by the people of Ankara.

Using the so-called threat of a Syrian attack, in December 2012, the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) had requested that NATO deploy missiles along its border with Syria. After the approval of the request by NATO, a total of six missile batteries, from Holland, Germany and the United States, along with hundreds of NATO soldiers, are now on their way to Turkey. They are expected to arrive by the end of January.

While AKP claims the Patriots are needed to protect Turkey against the spillover of the conflict in Syria, as a NATO member and a loyal defender of the imperialist interests in the region, it is in fact the AKP government which has been the aggressive party towards Syria. Since the start of the conflict, AKP has provided shelter, funding and arms to the Free Syrian Army fighting against the Syrian government. Additionally, AKP has more than once attempted to provoke war with Syria, sending a military reconnaissance jet into Syrian airspace in June, and launching an artillery attack against Syria in October and calling NATO to action in each incident.

The Syrian government has called the deployment of missiles a provocation by the government of Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In total contrast to the hostile policies of AKP against Syria, the Turkish population overwhelmingly opposes any form of intervention in Syria. Even those who support the ruling AKP believe that Turkey should not take sides in the conflict.

The deployment of Patriot missiles violates the Turkish Constitution

On Jan. 7, The Communist Party of Turkey sent a letter to the members of the Parliament, pointing to the fact that the deployment of the Patriot missiles and NATO troops in Turkey is unconstitutional and that the ruling AKP goverment is guilty of violating the constitution. According to the Turkish constitution, the authority to grant permission for the deployment of foreign troops and military in Turkey belongs to the parliament. The request from NATO to deploy the Patriot missiles is the result of a unilateral decision by AKP, completely bypassing the parliament, making a total mockery of even any illusion of bourgeois democracy in the process. The letter sent by TKP to the members of the parliament emphasized that the deployment of Patriot missiles has nothing to do with the defense of Turkey against a Syrian threat as claimed by AKP. The TKP’s letter further pointed out that the interests of the people of Turkey dictate that the Patriot missiles and the foreign troops be sent back to where they came from. The letter ended by demanding that the members of the parliament take action and immediately send the missiles and NATO troops back.

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So commies are our last hope? O_o
Boy are we screwed...

they've always been the first to fight against tyranny. Just look at what the brave Partisan's of Yugoslavia did.

SMRT FASIZMU, SLOBODA NARADU! ☭

They are often misguided too, this has been the first non-interventionist stance i've read from the left with regard to Syria. It's start though, seen as all main stream parties and the media have been bought and paid for. Hopefully this will pick up steam because the other side are getting desperate.

Oh give me a break.... Do you have any Idea how many people Stalin ordered to be killed? Sent to Siberia? Or Mao Zedong? Pol Pot? Yugoslavia had a camp for dissidents who opposed Tito, it was called Goli Otok, or Naked island. They were beaten and forced to do heavy labor. Orthodoxy was banned, churches made into communist schools...
Or Causesku of Romania, Enver Hoxha of Albania... East Germany, DDR... all wonderful people, wonderful regimes. They gave us freedom? I don't think so.
Why don't you stuff your redecorated pentagram up your behind! Because that's what communism is - a godless totalitarian ideology!

GO TO HELL YOU Nazi collaborating Cetnik.

Communists don't believe in hell, but they're on the right track to get there!

Personally I think that's where communists are made.

Btw I'm 100% Catholic.
Nice try, wiseguy.