The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) made a statement on the commemoration events for the first anniversary of the failed coup in Turkey. TKP questions what the celebration is for.
On July 15th, celebrations were organised by the government for the first anniversary of the failed coup attempt in Turkey. As July 15 was declared as a national holiday, state ceremonies along with public gatherings were organised all over Turkey.
The Communist Party of Turkey made a statement, mainly asking what these celebrations are for. Declaring that there is no difference in the AKP’s and coup plotters’ future plans for Turkey, TKP asks: “Aren’t both the coup plotters and those who faced the plot, in the service of the capitalists?”.
The statement declared that it was the AKP government itself who put the coup plotters to the most critical positions of the state apparatus and “it is the same government that is incapable of cleaning itself from the coup plotters and fails to clarify the identity of those plotters even though a year has passed over July 15th”.
TKP’s statement remarks that “coup plotters and those who are exposed to the coup resemble each other” so much that it is hardly found in history. “The fact is that they plotted coups against the people together and for many times”, it added.
Against the celebrations and a national holiday created by the government, TKP states that “the real celebration of our people will be only when, pro-American, regressive, market-oriented and anti-labour policies will be thrown out of this country”.
