Türkçe | English The protests that started after the detention of more than 100 people, including IBB Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, continue to grow. The protests, in which university students are at the forefront, have started to gain a militant character and become mass despite the CHP’s efforts to contain them. Although these protests started as a result of the conflict between two ruling cliques struggling for power, it is clear that the anger that has been unleashed has reasons far beyond the detention of İmamoğlu. Today, it is no coincidence that young people, the workers of the future and the workers of today, whose future has become uncertain, many of whom have to work at the same time as studying, are at the forefront of the struggle. The anger is also a result of the increasing impoverishment of millions of people who survive by their labor, their being squeezed day by day under the economic crisis, the endless murders of women, the oppression and attack policies against LGBTI+ people, the massacres of animals, the attacks against the Kurdish people despite the so-called peace talks, and the fact that the lives of millions of people have become unbearable due to the government’s policies based on oppression and coercion. We see that this anger is directed not only against the AKP-MHP government, but also against the CHP, which for years has been supposedly oppositional, but has been the government’s stooge in every difficult moment, restraining the possibility of social explosions in every crisis and directing energy towards the elections. People have realized that elections are useless and that there is no other way for liberation except struggle. At this point, it is clear that the people taking to the streets cannot be easily stopped by repression, nor can be manipulated by CHP... Continue Reading
Janik Besendorf
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