New Age2.png SACP supports Kurdish resistance in Turkey TNA Reporter, The New Age, Johannesburg, 13 October 2015 The South African Communist Party (SACP) has condemned the suppression of the Kurds and the recent mass killing in Turkey. This weekend at least 97 people were killed and many others injured in a bombing in the Turkish capital, Ankara. The victims were among the people who had gathered for a peace march. Turkey terrorism agains Kurds.jpg More than 10000 people held a moment of silence on Sunday for the victims of the explosions who were attending a peace rally in Ankara. Hundreds of others were also wounded in Saturday's attack. Protesters chanted slogans in support of the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, who are embroiled in renewed fighting with Turkey's security forces. Hundreds have died in the fighting since July. The SACP expresses its sincere condolences to all the families that have lost their loved ones and wishes all those who were injured speedy and full recovery. The SACP further expresses revolutionary solidarity with the Kurdish people. The Kurds have suffered from oppression for a very long time, including a ban on their language and cultural assimilation under successive Turkish regimes. The suffering imposed on the Kurds by Turkey and several other countries in that Middle East region is not dissimilar to the sufferings experienced by Africans in South Africa under successive colonial and apartheid regimes," said SACP spokesperson Alex Mashilo. He said: "This apartheid-type social, economic and political suppression of the people of Kurdistan by Turkey is the root cause of the problem of the bombing that took place. "The Turkish government must be held accountable for yesterday's mass murder and the rest of the murders committed by Turkish authorities in the history of the oppression of the Kurdish people. "What the Kurds need is freedom, including democratic decision-making and control of their own destiny." - 701371 From: <http://tnaepaper.co.za/> http://tnaepaper.co.za/ -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
