Stop the aggressive attack and war of the fascist Turkish regime on Rojava!

On Wednesday, 09.10.2019, the reactionary Turkish regime launched a long-planned fascist war of aggression on Rojava (northern Syria) coordinated with NATO partners. As so often, the Turkish military is actively supported by NATO partners. The Turkish regime is not sending tanks against the Kurdish population for the first time. The Turkish military offensive on Afrin in northern Syria in January 2018 happened only a few months ago.

Although the Turkish regime once again justifies its invasion under the pretext of “cleansing Turkish borders of Kurdish terrorists,” one of the key objectives of this invasion policy is to consolidate Turkey’s political position in the clashes between reactionary regional states and imperialist powers.

The Erdoğan government, which faces a profound political and social crisis in its own country, uses the war to distract itself from the situation at home, to strengthen religious nationalism, and isolate leftist and progressive forces. While at it defending its own strategic policy of oppression and massacres ttowards the Kurds in the region.

The part of the Syrian Kurds and the YPG who were hoping for US support against Turkey and having learned nothing from the military occupation of Afrin, accuse Trump of having “stabbed them in the back” because the Turkish military offensive took place two days after withdrawal of US forces. Undoubtedly, this military offensive has been planned and prepared for a long time. The agreement in August between the US and Turkish governments on a security zone on the Syrian-Turkish border in northern Syria was the green light for a major military offensive in northern Syria.

The Erdoğan government is planning, among other things an ethnic cleansing in northern Syria. Instead of the four million people living there today, two million Arab Muslims are to be settled. This can only be achieved if the ethnic groups currently living in this region are displaced.

Northern Syria is inhabited mostly by Kurds, Assyrians and Armenians. This area is a self-governed region in which a democratic, equal, multi-ethnic coexistence is ensured. This is not only a thorn in the side of the Erdoğan regime. The Turkish regime is also trying to prevent these achievements from spreading to other reactionary regimes in the region.

The Turkish military offensive, on the other hand, is also part of  years of conflict, aiming for a redistribution of the entire Middle East. Imperialist powers and regional powers are the source of numerous wars, with countless deaths, millions of expulsions and massive destruction in this region.

The Turkish military offensive in northern Syria takes place at a time when the working class and other oppressed people in the region are regaining consciousness. Daily strikes and protests in Iran over the past two years, growing protests in Iraq against oppression, corruption, …, the Turkish labor movement and civil society have been actively fighting against Turkish government policy for years.

The current situation in northern Syria also contains a very important lesson for all oppressed peoples in the region. The struggle for freedom and self-determination can not be separated from the fight against imperialism and the rule of capital.

The Foreign Committee of the Fadaian Organization (Aghaliyat) condemns the Turkish military offensive to the Syrian Kurdish region. We call on the Kurdish population in Syria not to rely on the help and support of imperialist powers, but on their own strength and willpower. We call on them to fight and oppose the occupying powers and reiterate the need for international solidarity among the progressive and communist forces worldwide.

Long live the international solidarity of the workers!

Down with capitalism – long live socialism!

 Foreign Committee of the Organization of the Fadaian (Aghaliyat)
10 October 2019