Category: social revolution

Serêkaniyê (Ras Al Ain) and Girê Spi cities are mercenary hotbeds disseminating extremist ideology 

part 3 0f an Analysis by hawarnews.com (ANHA) SHARED WITH THANKS.

After two years of Turkish occupation of Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî, these cities have become a hotbed for mercenary groups and the dissemination of extremist thinking.

On 6 October 2019 US President Donald Trump announced that US troops in north eastern Syria were going to withdraw . (from part 1)

The US decision was exploited by the Turkish occupation forces that launched a ground offensive into North Eastern Syria on 9 October 2019 using fighter jets, tanks, artillery and all highly advanced technology backed by support given by extremist ideologies such their Nusra Front (Al Qaeda) and ISIS paid mercenary groups under the Syrian National Army, the SNA.

After an intrepid and heroic resistance lasted for 14 days by the Syrian Democratic Council both Sere Kaniye and Gire Spi were occupied by Turkish forces and mercenary groups.(from part 1)

Turkey tries to give new breath to the Ottoman Empire under the so-called Misak Mili that covers areas from Aleppo up to Mosul and Kirkuk .

Heroic Serekaniye/Ras al-Ain still holds out.. Oct 2019,

ISIS mercenaries have emerged in these occupied towns. Despite the crimes being committed and heavy intimidation, the resentment of the people against the occupation and its mercenaries is increasing day by day.

What is the fate of these occupied areas? How do Syrians get them back?

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By Turkish Minute – October 12, 2021 182 shared with thanks

A total of 345 children under the age of 6 are accompanying their mothers in Turkish prisons, and they receive the same treatment as inmates, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing Deutsche Welle Turkish service’s report on a study by the Right to Life Association.

According to the study children are traumatized by strip-searches. They are not well fed and don’t receive sufficient medical care. They also have difficulty getting time to play.

Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) Secretary-General Coşkun Üsterci said the courts need to take into account the economic and social conditions of mothers with children under 6. “Even at times when imprisonment is absolutely necessary, female inmates with children should be in prisons with special and better conditions where the children can be raised well,” he added.

“We don’t even know if children are allowed to see daylight,” Ceren Kalay of the Ankara Bar Association said. “The children can be protected by putting their mothers under house arrest.”

The number of children accompanying their mothers in prison skyrocketed in Turkey in the aftermath of a coup attempt in July 2016. According to a statement from Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on February 20, a total of 622,646 people have been the subject of investigation and 301,932 have

been detained, while 96,000 others have been jailed due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, accused by the Turkish government of orchestrating the coup attempt. The minister said there are currently 25,467 people in Turkey’s prisons who were jailed on alleged links to the movement.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been targeting followers of the Gülen movement, a faith-based group inspired by Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, since the corruption investigations of December 17-25, 2013, which implicated then-Prime Minister Erdoğan, his family members and his inner circle.

Dismissing the investigations as a Gülenist coup and conspiracy against his government, Erdoğan designated the movement as a terrorist organization and began to target its members. He locked up thousands including many prosecutors, judges and police officers involved in the investigation as well as journalists who reported on them.

Erdoğan intensified the crackdown on the movement following a coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that he accused Gülen of masterminding. Gülen and the movement strongly deny involvement in the abortive putsch or any terrorist activity.

David J. Lobina rediscovers a forgotten but fascinating figure in London’s radical and Jewish history

Oct 12, 2021 by ·David J. Lobina shared from Red Pepperwith thanksRudolf Rocker, right, with Milly Witkop and their son Fermin

Originally from Germany, the anarchist thinker Rudolf Rocker spent much of his life in exile in some of the world’s major cities – Paris, London, New York – where he always gravitated towards immigrants involved in radical politics, most notably the Jewish anarchist community in London at the turn of the 20th century.

Often referred to as a rabbi by members of this community as a sign of appreciation, the epithet of an ‘anarchist rabbi’ is the title of a book about Rocker’s life and thought, as well as a documentary about his time in London. 

Though this story is rarely told today, Rocker’s time in London is worth revisiting, at the very least to recover him as an important political and intellectual figure.

Quite the theoretician-and-practitioner anarchist, Rocker left a large bibliography behind, including three volumes of memoirs, only a small part of which have been published in English. 

Published in the 1950s as The London Years, his memoirs give a rich account of how a German Catholic became a leading figure in London’s Yiddish-speaking Jewish anarchist movement. 

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