News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Awesome.. -NP] (http://anonhq.com/) The famous Turkish hacker team ‘Redhack’ announced hacking into power administration system and canceling 1.5 million liras (approx. 650K US dollars) of electricity bills to be paid to Soma Electricity Production company. Soma is a district recently noted for a historic massacre of 301 mine workers, and now struggling with destruction of... Continue Reading →
(BBC) The air strikes on Daglica were in response to PKK shelling of a military outpost, the armed forces said. Both sides have been observing a truce and it is the first major air raid on the PKK since March 2013. Kurds are furious at Turkey's inaction as Islamic State (IS) militants attack the Syrian... Continue Reading →
[No way to verify this, but if true it shows a greater level of Western coordination than previously known --NP] (Source: http://kurdishquestion.com/) Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP Demir Celik stated in a press conference in Parliament that the majority of ISIS’ fighting force was formed of around two thousand Turkish Special Force officers, who in the... Continue Reading →
[More hypocrisy. The Western imperialists and their allies are directly and indirectly intervening in Syria. They have spread chaos across Syria, displacing and killing hundreds of thousands. Turkey has become a de facto base area for those seeking to spread chaos in Syria. -- NP] Syria condemns Turkey 'aggression' after jet downed Damascus (AFP) -... Continue Reading →
[We do not particularly know who is telling the truth. Either side could have used chemical weapons. What we do know is that the US has a long history of using largely false claims about "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (WMDs) to justify its imperialist wars and interventions. This was the method of the Bush regime,... Continue Reading →
Turkish police fire water cannon to prevent park protest By Ece Toksabay and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon on Monday at protesters who tried to defy a closure order and enter an Istanbul park at the center of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government. Gezi Park was... Continue Reading →
Turkish police fire teargas, water cannon to disperse Istanbul protesters By Humeyra Pamuk and Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters in a central Istanbul square on Saturday as they gathered to enter a park that was the centre of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip... Continue Reading →
[Activist hackers against capitalism -- NP] Turkish hacker group Redhack claims responsibility for all tweets about Gezi protests (Dailynews) Hacker group Redhack has claimed responsibility for all tweets that were posted about the Taksim Gezi Park protests after the government announced that an investigation into the matter had been launched. “The AKP [Justice and Development... Continue Reading →
[Just as in Bahrain, Turkey crushes dissent. There is little word from Washington, DC. In fact, many of the arms used against the peoples in Bahrain and Turkey are from the United States. The United States is a big-time ally of these two regimes that are attacking their own people. Yet the United States cries... Continue Reading →
[Turkey has been supporting the rebellion in Syria yet uses violence against its own people. Where is the outrage over use of violence against the Turkish people? The outrage against the use of violence against the people of Bahrain? --NP] For a third day, police, protesters clash in Turkey Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Protesters hurled... Continue Reading →
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