The Communist Youth of Turkey (TKG) protested the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in a statement titled “NATO is the murderer of people”, released on April 4, the 69th anniversary of the establishment of NATO.
Reminding that NATO was established in 1949 against anti-imperialist popular movements under the influence of the Soviet Union, as well as communism, which is the biggest enemy of the capitalist world, the TKG states that, since the day it was established, NATO have exported occupation, terror, and destruction to the non-NATO countries. “As for the allied countries, it attempts to lead the oppression of the working class in these countries through the coups it organised and the counterinsurgency gangs it established.”
“NATO doesn’t fight against terror. This propounded thesis doesn’t reflect the truth but the hypocrisy and cowardice of the capitalists of our country. NATO is the instigator of numerous terror actions organised in the international arena, and, in many instances, the direct operator of these. As it stands, NATO is the biggest and the most powerful terrorist organisation,” the TKG statement reads, noting that terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS, which function to justify the imperialist interventions in the Middle East today and to break the resistance of anti-imperialist revolutionary movements, were either directly founded by the NATO allies or supported and developed.
“NATO is an occupying terrorist organisation. It doesn’t protect our country and people. It is a war threat to our country. It has a finger in the massacres occurring in our country and the region. It uses our country as a nuclear arsenal, and attacks our sovereign rights. It is inimical to the working people and communism,” the TKG remarks, defining throwing the truths in the face of NATO-lovers which don’t hesitate to lie to people as the mission of the true patriots of Turkey.
The TKG calls on the working people and the youth of Turkey to join the fight against NATO imperialism with the following demands: “All U.S. and NATO bases with the borders of our country, notably the İncirlik base, should be closed, and the foreign soldiers and consultants should be deported. Nuclear weapons in the İncirlik base, which pose a great threat to our country and the region should be seized, removed, and destroyed. Turkey should immediately leave the NATO terrorist organisation, and all the Turkish Armed Forces personnel taking part in the NATO operations abroad should be called back.”
