The announcement of Turkish President Erdogan’s visit to Paris on January 5, 2018, sounds like a provocation. It will take place the day before an event commemorating the murder of three Kurdish activists five years ago. French justice had however highlighted the involvement of the Turkish secret services in this crime.
The meeting between Emmanuel Macron and Recep Tayyip Erdogan constitutes a new outrage against the families of the victims and the Kurds who undergo a ruthless deadly war. The parliamentarians and mayors of the HDP have had their immunity lifted, been removed from office and now languish in jail after being convicted in unfair trials.
Erdogan’s Turkey is in a chaotic situation, in a permanent repressive flight.
The opposition is silenced while gigantic purges populate the prisons. Politics has become a field of revenge in which Islamist-fascist militias enjoy impunity to kill and lynch those still protesting.
In these circumstances, how can it be said that Turkey remains “an essential partner”? France’s duty is to stand alongside human rights defenders in Turkey.
The PCF condemns the visit of the dictator RT Erdogan and expresses his total solidarity with all the Democrats of Turkey. He calls to make the demonstration of January 6, 2018 in Paris a success for Truth and Justice to be returned to Leila, Sakine and Rojbin.
French Communist Party
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