Regarding the recent attack of fascists against members of the Communist Youth of Turkey (TKG) who were distributing anti-NATO leaflets at Istanbul University’s Beyazıt Campus and the subsequent arrest of TKG members by the police, the Central Council of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) issued a statement of solidarity towards the TKG.
Among other things, the statement highlights the political activity of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) and its youth, TKG, in universities and schools “despite the continuing surveillance of its members by security forces and the police.”
“It is obvious,” points out the KNE, “that the bourgeois class, the state and its parties are disturbed by the acceptance and support of the positions of the TKP and TKG by the Turkish youth. They have been disturbed because neither the emergency security measures nor the intensification of repression, the environment of terrorism and the arrests have succeeded to prevent the young communists from the development of mass and militant activity.”
“For that reason,” reads the statement, “members of fascist organisations, who act in support or even in collaboration with the police, have been ‘recruited’ thus fulfilling their role as watchdogs of the system against people’s interests.”
“NEIGHBOURING PEOPLES HAVE NOTHING TO DIVIDE”
The KNE condemns the repression and attacks against the TKG, and adds, “The escalation of the state and other mechanisms comes in a period when the Turkish bourgeois class attempts to upgrade its role in the region, from the Balkans to the Middle East. It is once more proved that the attack on the people’s living standards and rights, the dangerous war plans and the competitions of the bourgeois classes to strengthen their position in the region go hand by hand with anti-communism, the intensification of repression against the working people’s movement and its vanguard, the communists.”
The KNE expresses full solidarity with its comrades from the TKG, and adds, “Faithful to the principles of proletarian internationalism, we will continue the coordination and the common action with our TKG comrades. The neighbouring peoples have nothing to divide; on the contrary, they have as a common opponent the system of exploitation, of poverty, of unemployment and imperialist wars. They have common interests to fight against the imperialist war, against the USA-NATO plans in the region, against the effort to dispute the borders.”
“Against the nationalist and irredentist propaganda that is developing in Greece and Turkey,” ends the statement, “the struggle for peace, friendship and solidarity among our peoples must be strengthened.”
