"The Turkish political elite’s near pathological hatred of Kurds is a root cause of the protracted conflict inside the country and is an influence on Turkey’s policy towards the crisis in Syria. Ankara would rather align itself, either secretly or more brazenly, with Sunni terror groups such as the Nusra Front and Isis than concede an inch of ground to the mainly secular Kurds.
The Kurds in Turkey and Syria are a mass democratic force who should be natural allies of the left. In their dual struggle against Isis and Turkish state oppression the Kurds deserve wider support than they currently receive.
By closely aligning himself with Islamist extremists Erdogan is flagrantly betraying his own country’s honourable traditions of revolutionary democracy and secularism. The modern Turkish women’s movement, for example, has a history of activism dating from the 1980s and Turkish society has a strong awareness of gender issues."
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